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A mastering engineer asked me to build a cue sheet tool — and then helped me turn it into a product

WaveLab's native PDF export has frustrated mastering engineers for over a decade — too many pages, too much wasted space, not something you're proud to send to a…

I built Pysey — a free, open-source desktop emulator for the Critter & Guitari EYESY video synthesizer

Developing modes for the Critter & Guitari EYESY means uploading Python to a Raspberry Pi every time you want to test a change. That loop gets old fast.…

Amen Eternal: my circuit-bent kinetic tape loop sculpture for WMSE’s 2025 Art & Music auction.

In 2024, after walking through WMSE’s Art & Music event and seeing what everyone brought to the table, I left thinking, “Okay. I have an art degree. I…

Using Ableton Push 3 with a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 ADAT Interface to expand inputs and outputs

After I spent a few weeks learning how to use the new features in the Push 3, I was determined to develop a similar routing scenario so I…

How to play an Ableton Push or other midi controller in an outdoor setting and still be able to see your screen and pad lights.

Have you ever tried to perform at a live gig, using midi-controllers or devices that have backlit pads or screens, only to find out the sun makes it…

Tutorial: Modified GE Cassette Player Pitch mod

Recently, a circuit-bender I look up to (Rich Burnett, aka The Sound of Machines) posted a really cool pedal-housed version of his Cassettone player mod made by another…

Add a pitch mod and line-in to a brand new, inexpensive tape player

Okay, so I learned how to make loop tapes for use with my 4-track, but I wanted to add some simple stereo looping cassette decks to my live…

I spent the last two weeks researching and making endless cassette loop tapes and this is what I learned.

I’ve been spending a lot of time during quarantine watching folks on YouTube use tape loops and play Tascam Portastudio cassette 4-tracks like an instrument. I plan on…

No Elgato Stream Deck, no problem! I reprogrammed my Akai LPD8 to work as an OBS scene switcher.

Okay, so if you’re like any musician in 2020 (and now 2021), you’re probably trying to figure out how to livestream a performance Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube… wherever……

My Top 10 Records of 2018

Looking back, there were no UK Grime “albums” that hit me hard like the past two years. That’s probably a good thing, because I went pretty far down…