4ms Employee Interviews: Meet Cantrell Hepner!

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"Cantrell works on programming at 4ms. We hope you're enjoying meeting the team!"

4ms Employee Interviews

Interviews with Dan Green

Interviews with Dan Green: Metamodule

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Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about the creation of MetaModule."

All 7 parts:

Interviews with Dan Green: Dual Looping Delay

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about the development of the Dual Looping Delay.

Part 6 in our 4ms Origins series of interviews."

Interviews with Dan Green: Moving to Portland, OR & The Spectral Multiband Resonator

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about the move to Portland, Oregon and development of the Spectral Multiband Resonator.

Part 5 in our 4ms Origins series of interviews."

Interviews with Dan Green: Life in Austin

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Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about life in Austin, Texas
Part 4 in the 4ms Origins series

Interviews with Dan Green: Life in St. Louis, Missouri

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about life in St. Louis, Missouri."

Additional parts here

Interviews with Dan Green: 4ms Company Origins

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, speaks about his origins.
This is Part 1 in a series of interviews, stay tuned for the rest!"

Interviews with Dan Green: 3ms to 4ms

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, speaks about the early days of designing pedals and how 3ms became 4ms."

Interviews with Dan Green: Life in St. Louis, Missouri

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about life in St. Louis, Missouri."

Important Interviews with Richard Nicol talks to Dan Green of 4ms in Tokyo

Published on Dec 9, 2019

"Richard and Dan discuss the importance of slippers and the 4ms Pods."

I swear he says, "This is my first modular event that sucks." :) Some nice socks there... and tons of free shoes from the looks of it.

Happy New Year! The Year in Synths 2013

Happy New Year Everyone!

What a busy year it has been in the world of synths.

This is going to be one doozy of a post, so bear with me. This post is a review of the year in synths for 2013. We begin with Tributes to Those We Lost This Year, followed by New Manufacturers & Makers, Older Manufacturers Added to the Site, New Gear Announcements, Top 10 Posts by Traffic,  My Standout Posts for the Year, and finally This Years' Synth Events. I did my best to keep things as short and concise as possible.

Let's begin with the hardest part of the post.

Tributes to Those We Lost This Year

RIP Bernard Parmegiani - Electronic & Acoustic Composer
Lou Reed RIP
RIP Dick Raaymakers aka Kid Baltan
RIP George Duke - DreamWeaver
RIP Ralph Dyck, Sept 28, 1941 – May 20, 2013
RIP Ray Manzarek

All missed and never to be forgotten. Take a moment to remember them.

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New Manufacturers & Makers

Starting last January, I decided to keep a running list of every new manufacturer and maker introduced to the site during the year.  This is something I haven't done before and I thought it would be interesting to see how many there were in the year.   It's easy to focus on the big synth announcements throughout the year, but what about all the new makers and brands? I shouln't have to go considerably into the significance of new designers on the scene, so I'll just say two things regarding them.  One, the number of new makers is a direct reflection on the interest in our scene, and two, these are the creators of new gear which directly translate into new designs not previously available to us.  Think about that for a moment.  These are makers and designs that did not exist before.  They are part of our synth history.  So what is the total count of new synth designers for the year? A whopping 113. Think about that a bit. One hundred and thirteen new synth designers and brands this year alone.

Here they are (note a handful date back to 2012, but 2013 marked their momentum and availability):

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