Ed made me a "I (wireframe picture of a human heart) Machinedrum" shirt for my birthday. It is one of those shirts that inclines people to talk to you. In this case, it is super useful because it is mostly electronic musicians that talk to me.

Best present ever!

I'm 30! Woo ( Read more... )

I got my Machinedrum UserWave! Truly, it is a thing of wonder. It came loaded with some Swede-y urban beatz, but I will replace those samples with some transistor-transistor logic style noises. Then we will see whose brain sucks the most ( Read more... )

Wow, ReBirth 2 is free now. It was all part of my plan to get some 3,500-day warez. You can just download the CD image now at Rebirth Museum. You gotta fill out a registration form to make an acct, etc.

How fun is a laptop with just rebirth on it? BIG FUN

Figures that right after I got my machine back from an extended service absense they would release a hardware upgrade. Ok, so my machinedrum is going back in for the UserWave modification. Oh I love it so much... such depth of character and harsh range. I will miss you MachineDrum ( Read more... )

Jesus, repair dude finally sent me my machinedrum back. I don't know why, but that was really bugging me, not having it around. Sure, I've got all these potential soft-synths, but I like to PLUG SOMETHING IN TO THE MIXER AND THEN HIT THE BUTTON and then HAVE THAT BUTTON MAKE A NOISE. Once in a while ( Read more... )

I am thankful for ( Read more... )

Well, looks like things are go with the drummer dude. Practicing with a live drummer is something else. You just make a suggestion, and suddenly it's in the rhythm track, in a split second. Writing songs sure goes fast that way, when I don't have to stop and open up the sequencer for editing or what have you ( Read more... )

Up all night, going through the big stack of unlabeled CDs trying to find an example of what kind of music we're supposed to be making which doesn't make me poke myself in the eye in shame. Hmm this one's kind of .. no wait, that's eraknid's.

Maybe humming and beatboxing will be sufficient to get the point across. No? Dang.

My machinedrum is still in LA, and I'm getting kind of depressed about it. Whither thou, SPS-1? Some local d0odz have asked if I'd be interested in programming tracks for their reasonably popular riff-rock band. I would! Except my fat beets are AWOL. Well, I guess I'm all right with the other stuff ( Read more... )