I realized something partway through last week’s project with the Bliptronic 5000. One of the things that makes the Bliptronic such a fun musical toy is the fact that you can take it everywhere, thanks to its built-in speaker. Within a few days of having it, I’d used it in my studio, in the living [...]
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43/52: new video – “a bliptronic day”
42/52: Bliptronic 5000!
Last week, my good friend Kent Kingery blew me away by sending me a Bliptronic 5000, which is an incredibly fun little synthesizer+sequencer. This week’s project is an exploration of this great little box. For starters, here’s a quick proof-of-concept track I made with the Bliptronic. 42/52: bliptronic 5000 test run by billvanloo To make [...]
14/52: chromedecay: field – demo 1 (bicycle & garage sounds)
This week’s project has been in the works for quite some time, but is just now being picked up again. It’s a demo of some new sound/preset work I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I’m calling this first set of material chromedecay: field. One benefit of being a teacher is that I have [...]
11/52: DIY USB foot controller, part 1
For this week’s project, I decided to turn an old wireless USB number pad into a foot controller for Ableton Live. Here’s what I started with: I was partially inspired to take on this project after seeing this thread on Create Digital Music last year: Sexy DIY Footswitch for Music, Using the Brain of a [...]
5/52: iBook instrument station
This week, I spent some time setting up a new instrument station in the chromedecay studio. A few years ago, I replaced my trusty titanium PowerBook with a shiny new Intel MacBook. That brought lots of increased power, but as I mentioned in the post at the time, it meant losing some things I really [...]