Teenage Engineering strikes again. A dub and reggae version of the EP sampler. It's covered in references to dub and reggae, but the first thing I'm going to try to use it for is to try to make ska. And then I wonder why there is no ska sampler with a Madness theme and a $400 TE pork-pie hat.

BTS flavor is kind of like blueberry. I wanted to try matcha brown sugar, but that seems like something I would need to sleep off for a few hours.

Happy anniversary to Bob Moog's US patent number 3,475,623, the voltage-controlled low pass filter! October 29th, 1969.

This is the first time I've had a latte like this. I like it.

Remembering the old dirty game shop days when I hacked a 360 analog stick into a GameCube controller.

Before I left, my partner gave me a beautiful new synth, the Pocket Scion. It has some alligator clip leads that connect to any organic material. Using measurements of resistance across the probes, it generates musical sequences. The voice and different music parameters adjust with push buttons.

So I'm traveling, and I found these. I've never had them before, and because of the blue packaging, I expected ranch. Paprika is not ranch.

I may have acquired a beautiful hand-built D'aigle autoharp after visiting their workshop. It has passive pickups and fine tuning so I can really crank out that folk cover of "The Ace of Spades."

I finally linked my domain to my bluesky profile so everyone can know that in addition to making weird experimental music and chiptunes, I also enjoy disassembling ColecoVisions.

It's all refelted and ready to go! Some of the chord bars have some slop and will occasionally dampen a few of the wrong strings. A small adjustment I could make is using thinned CA or contact cement to glue small stubs to the ends.

I turned the tuning peg and the tuning block "popped." I think that's an instrument's way of saying "I'm too old for thiiiiiiiiis."

I am afraid of tuning this. Right now it sounds like it's badly out of it. I would pick it up and hug it next to my heart but that's probably how the evil spirit gets its victims. Only the g⁷ chord is turning yellow for some reason.

It has got the factory strings on it. The felts are not even broken in. I feel like I should turn back, like this is a "Christine situation" and I should turn back before it possesses me and makes me sing June Carter songs.

I somehow lucked out and found this autoharp for sale. It was very cheap. When I got there, I was told that it belonged to an old man who collected things and never played them. It literally has never been played and was in this case for six decades. Its condition is astonishing.

Beware of dehumanization. It is our gravest social sin. It is a self-fulfilling Doomsday prophecy and portends the swift erosion of a soul. The more you treat someone as less than, the less you become.

Selling things on Facebook Marketplace. There's always a group like "[local area] Buy/Sell/Trade" and another nearly identical group called "[local area] Buy/Sell/Trade (NO JERKS, PEOPLE WITH BAKED GOODS, BAD ADMINS!!!)." When I see this, I always feel like I'm stepping into some high lore.

The new tuning pins arrived and I reassembled the auto harp. I'm not a luthier by any imagination, and I did the best I could. One of the pins was stripped out of the pin block, so I had to do the old "wooden shim" trick with some titebond. We'll see if it holds tuning.

When synthesizer vibes are going on but I sweep the notch filter instead of the VFO that is the poorly labeled pot right next to it.

be good to each other everyone don’t make a hard time harder

We need more third spaces where it's publicly acceptable to jam.

Every time I try to articulate a post that is non-music related here, I end up going

The Soma Pipe is a beautiful instrument for ambient, cathartic, haunting, expressive sound.

Today's synths are the HiChord and the Liven Evoke. Dreamy, haunting, romantic, and raspy.

I managed to snag a HiChord! After figuring out that I needed to add udev rules to allow webusb to work, I was able to flash it with the latest firmware. Thinking of posting something with it soon.

Me posting a politically charged skeet in a thread I have no business posting in.

$15,500 of Teenage Engineering gear Vs. the Sparkly Quirky Goth Catgirl with a Blåhaj and $99 worth of FB Marketplace Korg NuTekt pocket synths.

Schmittyposting with the hope that USPS brings me those tuning pins as soon as possible.

Today Schmitty was out of tune and no matter what I did the low octave F was frozen. The peg stripped. That started a 4 hour adventure with a pair of vice grips, pliers, a Dremel... Eventually I got it, but I had to unstring the entire lower octave. The pins are badly oxidized. Ordered new ones.

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DAW vs. DAWless in two photos.

The Liven Evoke and the Omnichord OM-108 are really good companions. This time I experimented with the arpeggiator in the Evoke while I played the strumplate om the Omni. It's...beautiful, I think. Gloomy, moody, ambient, and all the good stuff. #synthsky

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Omnichord OM-108 and the Sonicware Liven Evoke team up for Ambient Spooky Stuff.

Don't let the world tell you who YOU are. Don't make decisions about your health, your life, your love, your job, or your friendships, because of what someone else thinks. It is not your responsibility to adhere to the imaginative limits of other people. It's their failure to recognize your liberty.

Reluctantly posting a new clip. I wanted to play the Theremin today, and I also wanted to use the PO-135, so here's Street Fighter 2 as an 80's martial arts movie.

The amount of time I spend patching firmware on synthesizers is significantly larger than the time I actually play anything. I am somehow okay with this. It's part of the fun. I might as well begin referring to myself as a firmware update enthusiast.

Drone Synth Sunday Featuring Ovum + Rumble of Ancient Times + TX-6 for effects.

"Everything Sounds Like Ninja Gaiden from Inside This Trash Can" featuring PO-35 Speak + PO-128 Mega Man + Sonicware Liven 8-Bit Warps.

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Half the graves I need to shit on haven't even been dug yet.

I got the 30th anniversary Sailor Moon memorial album. The pressing seems really well done and the album cover has great color. 🌙

PO-24 Office + PO-16 Factory + PO-32 Tonic + TX-6 for glitch.