Links:

• listening to

  • Audio projects of Tamás Olejnik Antendex and Retax Gorgon are on heavy rotation.
  • Blind Old Freak Alessandro Cortini. Nice work on the Buchla 200e modular.
  • dougcl on vimeo I don’t know much about “dougcl” except that he’s in Portland and he has a big synth. There are some nice things to hear here, and it’s fun watching the blinky lights.
  • James Cigler's YouTube channel James is also Felix Inferious. His channel on YouTube boasts many educational videos that make some sense of these weird synth modules.
  • Keith Fullerton Whitman working it 21 minutes of KFW making magical things.
  • stretta: feignroom I like this for many many reasons.
  • The Subliminal Kid and his Macbeth M5N Fantastic and inspiring video.

• Sites

  • Analog Industries Blog of Chris Randall, half of Audio Damage. Good stuff when not a little too cranky.
  • audioMIDI News for the electronic musician, audioMIDI happenings, and other points of electronical interest.
  • Create Digital Music All things electronic music.
  • Disquiet Reflections on ambient/electronic music and interviews with the people who make it
  • Felix Inferious Good synth site regarding modular varieties.
  • I have synth Reviews, news, and a great blog. Basically if a bunch of synth nerds got together and had a party, this would be like that.
  • Muffwiggler THE information resource for all synths modular. I learn a lot by reading these forum posts.
  • navs.modular.lab Another really fine blog of and about modular synthesizers. Explanatory patches and sounds, and very very useful comparisons of different modules.
  • Wire to the Ear Oliver Chesler, aka The Horrorist. Opinion, tutorials, ideas.

• Tools

  • Ableton Live My favorite thing with which to make music.
  • Alesis Micron My little piece of virtual analog hotness.
  • Audio Damage Great plug-ins. I use Dr. Device all the time.
  • Korg Kaoss KP3 Darth Vader’s effects box
  • Numerology Really slick sequencing tool. This loaded with Reaktor synths wired into Ableton is my new favorite thing.
  • Reaktor Modular gear.
  • Reason Your virtual rack of fun.
  • Synplant A crazy fun synthesizer.
  • Volta Allows voltage control over modular and analog synthesizers from one’s computer. I can trigger my filter with a sequencer in Ableton. For real.