"This Roland Juno 60 is in excellent condition for its age and has recently been overhauled by a professional technician. I had the amazing Juno-66 mod installed, along with ultra-rare MN3009 chorus chips -- the chorus is now crystal quiet! Even some of the best condition Junos tend be noisy when the chorus is engaged -- not this one!
Here's a summary of the work done:
Juno-66 mod by Tubbutec installed. This adds a number of great features, such as portamento, two LFOs, a second ADSR, and detuning, just to name a few! See further below for more details.
New MN3009 chorus chips installed. Noise-free when chorus is engaged.
New LFO Trig switch -- fully operational. A common feature to malfunction.
Replaced old-style soldered-on battery with new coin-style battery. Now easily changeable.
Cleaned everything, including all potentiometers, sliders, and key contacts.
Calibrated all."
Sorry for the long silence, I have been working hard on finalising a future release.. this track is the final puzzle. Stay tuned for more soon :)
This track really revolves around the ms-20 and monologue, but there are so many small layers and bits all around the place that helps to build a foundation for the melody to rest on. The eurorack takes care of some advanced percussion, noise tools (white noise hhs), plonk for toms, BIA for some metal style percussion. Braids and Rings does some random sequences with washes of clouds and shimmer reverbs.. small textures to help fill the small gaps inbetween the beats.
TR-8S does 707 kick and snare plus some simpler hihats, bass from the volca bass sequenced from digitone. Avalon does what is does best, square melodies adding some delay FX from the analog four.
All in all it feels very uptempo, but only clocking in at 99bpm.. :)
I hope you will enjoy this one!
Peace // BURG
Gear Used:
- KORG ms-20
- KORG monologue
- KORG volca bass
- KORG volca keys
- Roland TR8S
- Elektron Digitone
- Elektron DIgitakt
- Elektron Analog Four
- Avalon Bassline
- KORG kaosspad (vocal samples)
Timecodes:
1:00 Jakob Haq's music making background
2:30 iOS AUv3 Audio Unit Extensions
4:20 Cubasis DAW App
7:30 Apple's iPad models and the dreaded dongle situation
9:50 MFI certified accessories
14:45 Arturia Audiofuse Audio/MIDI USB Interface
21:20 haQ attaQ's BIG SECRET!!!
35:50 Jakob Haq's 'Mellow Album' made on iOS
41:00 Video Editing on the iPad with LumaFusion"
"Hi folks, here is a little jam I did using the Teenage Engineering OP-Z only as a midi sequencer for the SM Pro Audio V-Machine which is the only sound source here.
The V-Machine is running 2 instances of NI FM8 for bass and pads, 2 instances of FB Mono/Fury for bass and arp, 2 instances of Samplelord for the strings, drums, piano and bass, 2 delays, 1 reverb and 1 (master) compressor completely maxing out the 1 GHz CPU on it.
I've been fooling around with the V-Machine a lot lately, since I got a second one to see how far I can get without the CPU breaking down which will happen with most (single) plugins. So it was a lot of trial and error (mostly error) to get multiple well performing plugins running on it, but I just love these little plugin player boxes. I am planning on using one V-Machine for VST effects and one V-Machine for VST instruments in future jams :)
"In todays video I go thru some patches I made for the Polyend/Dreadbox Medusa. A very unique and intriguing synthesizer, with a few quirks of its own. You can check it out here: http://bit.ly/polyendmedusa and if you enjoy my videos you can support them on http://www.patreon.com/bobeats"
"Marc Doty, renowned historian of electronic music, delivers a fascinating presentation on the history of Don Buchla, including the context of experimental music in which he developed his amazing ideas. This lecture is an absolute must watch for any serious devotee of the craft of electronic music. Watching Marc tear down the notion of East Coast vs. West Coast synthesis is worth the price of admission on its own."