I really like the Olegtron 4060. It’s pretty awesome. I haven’t played around with it for ages, so it’s good to try it again and make some sounds.
Category: Tech
At times wonderful, and at times totally frustrating too. That’s technology, my experience of it anyway. I do a lot of stuff with technology and I suspect I will continue to do that.
More Olegtron 4060 fun
I should use this a lot more than I currently do. It is so much fun. I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing, except of course where I get something I like and continue to make sounds with it.
The SoundLab Play Space is coming …
I’ve been working on this event for a while now and I think it’ll be completely amazing, or at least I hope so anyway. It’s starting to shape up now and really come together.
If you’re interested in attending or being a part of it in some way, then take a look at this page on the SoundLab web site.
Microduino is in the nicest packaging
It really is very lovely indeed. I posted a couple of teasers about these last week, but so far I haven’t got them working as I’ve been having some issues with installing the Arduino libraries.
So I went to the Abbey Road Red launch, and it was pretty nice actually
So, last night I was at the launch of Abbey Road Red, a new music tech incubator at the iconic studios. It was a lovely event with some really nice tech companies showing off what they had to offer. Matthew Herbert performed and it was all pretty awesome overall.
To be honest I’m glad to be invited to these kinds of things. It’s nice to be a part of it.
What will the littlebits app expand to?
I really like littleBits. That’s no surprise I’m sure, so I was very pleased to see their new iOS app arrive on the store a couple of weeks ago. It’s a nice little app, it’s a start though. A good start, but still, a start. I hope that they expand on it and make it a more integrated part of the littleBits ecosystem.
I’d like to see the app be able to connect into the MIDI bit. After all, it has a USB connector, so why not? From there I’d like to see some functionality in the app to be able to control hardware. MIDI is a great place to start of course, so why not there. That in itself would work well for me. Of course the other logical place to go would be with the cloudBit. That’s a pretty obvious thing to do, and of course probably easier than MIDI, and more mass market appeal too.
I hope that littleBits do develop the app and their ideas for it, as it is, whilst it’s fun and nice to see what others are doing it isn’t going to be enough for long.
PowerUp 3.0 and the new PowerUp FPV
I kickstarted this when it came out and it is a load of fun to play around with, but the new FPV looks even better, in fact, truly awesome I’d say. When it comes to Kickstarter again this November I think I’ll be sorely tempted.
So Pebble brings voice activation
Now things are going to get interesting for Pebble Time, or at least that’s what I’m hoping will happen. There’s already been an app for Pebble using the dictation SDK, but I hope that they’ll be a lot more soon. What I’d really be looking for is something like an audio recording app that allows you to stream the audio into the host device.
That would be cool.
Cassette Store Day 2015: Fostex X-14
I used to have a Fostex X-15, but when it finally gave up I got rid of it. So I got the X-14 to replace it. It’s not as good. It’s ok, but it isn’t the same. Even so, I do like these old cassette 4 tracks. Their kind of awesome.
Cassette Store Day 2015: The Awesome Tascam
Thinking about cassettes for me has to include a tape 4-track, or in this case, 8-track. A beautiful and highly functional piece of hardware.
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