It takes a bit of set up and equipment, but I absolutely love running a line out from my computer to my modular synth and routing it back in for monitoring. Sometimes I just get bored and pass random video/audio into Beads. It's a lot of fun 🤩

At 28HP, Make Noise DPO is quite wide. I often consider taking it out of my case to free up space, but it never stays out for long! #modular #synthsky

I bought a Kalimba in Greece but now I just want all the Mbira from Zimbabwe 💀😱

Why can't I just highlight a region in an Ableton clip and make a new clip out of it? I don't wanna chop it in Simpler I don't wanna slice it to MIDI I irrationally hate MIDI HELP #ableton #dawful

I avoid certain computer topics and skills. I used to feel guilty about this, like I was selling myself short. I'm actually just finding my niche! Once I accepted this, I gained a lot of self-confidence. I have a really strong and focused interest in certain embedded systems topics...

Greece 🇬🇷 was fantastic!! Things I missed about America 🇺🇸: - Flushing toilet paper - Drip coffee - Fearing death only slightly while driving #honeymoon #greece #cyclades #naxos #santorini #athens

My copy of HELLO SUNSHINE by @keezyyoung.bsky.social shipped! Looking forward to reading it! I've found so many wonderful creators on #bluesky 🤗🤗 Spread the love and check it out!

Anyone else consistently feel like you're not very special, but maybe you have something special inside you? That's why I build so much stuff now. Hoping something special will come out eventually!

Me in June: I'll write a cross-vendor DSP firmware library! How hard could it be? Me in September, now wiser: existence is pain #CMSIS #ARM #firmware #diy #synthdiy #synthsky

I made this nonsensical meme to help my friends continue to not understand what my project is or why I won't stop talking about some guy named HAL #diy #adhd

I'm always applying my software background to firmware, but one thing I have found really frustrating about embedded projects is the use of generated HAL implementations, etc from hardware vendors. It's difficult to maintain and locks you in to their ecosystem even more. It would be one thing if..

A currently working vertical slice example from the Sound Byte Libs firmware library! This level of abstraction and ease of set up have been my north star while working on the library APIs. This code runs on a variety of ARM microcontrollers and a native simulator by changing only a CLI arg! #diy

Change 'I can't' to 'I don't know how' and you've given yourself permission to learn and succeed. The mental road blocks don't help! You'll never start something you don't believe you can finish. #lifecoach

There are some things that seem obvious in retrospect. That I would enjoy making ambient field recordings is one of those things 😂😎🤓

I'm very excited to eventually share what I've been working on but it's still in need of a lot of development! Sound Byte Libs is an embedded audio library targeting ARM Cortex-M family microcontrollers. It aims to support a lot of chips and vendors while the Cortex-M restriction keeps us sane...

One genuine positive about using AI in my projects is I've started writing and committing Architecture Decision Records (ADR) in my git repos because I'm sick of correcting the same god damn mistakes by Claude every new session 🤷‍♂️

I saw online my local music store has a Jupiter 6 on display, just after I was reading about the Jupiter series! I like to think I'm shopping for the future when I have middle aged lawyer money but really I'm just playin around 😂 #synthsky

Support yer makers, people! Especially if you yourself are trying to be one! If you have feelings and stuff about the things you value not being valued highly on the market, one thing you can do is support makers and artists directly 🔨🏛️🎭🎨

on.soundcloud.com/ng8mhx7Wof7A... Straight from the I wasn't gonna share this but... vault! It's an ambient textural improvisation made with my modular system. Im proud of it! #synthsky #ambient #modular

I now get why the guy at the music store raised an eyebrow when I said DPO was very Moog-like. (It's very Buchla-like.) It has a lot of nooks and crannies to explore though, which is what I meant! I stand by that 100% 🎹🔭 #synthsky

Coding with AI makes me feel like a god. Sometimes I forget God also created suffering and daylight savings

This has been a really fun patch to play with! Routing my computer's audio into the Palette case for listening and sampling. I have the MFD cross fading the sound source for Morphagene between the audio line in and Rings. It's fun to just listen to music or sample it and process it! #synthsky

I feel like 2026 might be the year the world realizes most of a software engineer's time is not spent coding 🤔

I love bash but

When you start referring to your modular "system" instead of calling it a synthesizer because technically it has multiple sound sources and is capable of producing several tracks at once, that's how you know it's still not big enough. #synthsky #modular

Grateful Dead 60th was unbelievable! My favorite weekend of music ever! 🕺🕺💀 It's wonderful to be surrounded by such loving, friendly people who all share a bond with this incredible music 🤗

High pass filters, you da real hero 😍

What a long strange 10 years it's been for me! I'm still very much developing the skill set, but 2015 is when I got serious about getting a computer science degree. It took me 3 full years to finish (this was my 3rd attempt). 3 years seemed like an impossibly long time in 2015, but I'm glad I...

One thing I like doing is just piping my favorite music into Ableton and watching a spectrum analyzer. It really helped me understand mixing more intuitively. Still pretty bad at mixing but much better than I used to be! 🕺

I did a meme #synthsky

Dang, ALM has a reverb plugin pack right when I've been looking for a new reverb solution 👀 And it's only $10 👀👀 I have more than $10 👀👀👀👀 busycircuits.com/mfx-physiver...

Anyone know good books about harmony and the science of sound and music? I'm trying to dive deeper into topics like why certain sounds are pleasurable, why dissonance happens, etc. Feeling inspired by the way Plaits generates look up tables of the harmonic series and other consonant ratios and freqs

You know what I (and everyone else) like about Doepfer? It just does what it says, no BS, no extras. Like if you want a linear VCA, it's gonna be a rock solid amp with a lovely linear response. I like that 🤗 #synthsky

I feel I never see the 860 Mk II VCF from System80 in people's rigs, but it's a great filter. I am slowly building out an almost all stereo set up, but I plan to keep the 860. It's got a really creamy response and sounds great with modulation. It's very by the books, but still wonderful! #synthsky

I think I need to stop looking at other clock sources and admit I just want another Pam's Pro Workout #synthsky

What about a complex sound source that plays chords and instead of knobs/CV adjusting the root note chromatically it moves around the circle of fifths? Inputs for setting root/type/inversion. I need a 3 channel step sequencer for this... 🤔 #synthsky

One time I was looking for a way to sync my pocket operators with my Korg Volca Drum and Ableton and I awoke weeks later in the midst of designing my own modular clock source. Then someone told me about Eurorack. 😂 Turns out Pamela's Pro Workout already exists and is perfect. 🤷‍♂️ #synthsky #adhd #ALM

Developing personal taste is so important for music and so hard to intentionally manifest. So much of it is just consuming a lot of different art and experimenting endlessly with your own IMO. Even then, you're just increasing the odds of a lightning strike!

So I guess my question is what are the reverbs? I've been interested in Strymon stuff, Make Noise, but what else? #synthsky

I think now after [pouring all of my money into and] assembling a great Eurorack system with all the basics and some personal flair, I'm ready to get into reverb. I usually record dry and apply reverb in the DAW, but I've been more and more interested in self-contained modular performance! #synthsky

I know, MIDI has widespread adoption and would be impractical to unseat. I also think HTML sucks. 🤷‍♂️

MIDI is inadequate and bad. Is that a hot take these days? Why do instrument makers continue to foist it on us? Why do musicians continue to accept it? Genuinely the biggest supposed advantage of MIDI, simplicity, is a mirage! It's easy to implement a toy MIDI parser, but the spec becomes...

Both of my Mutable Instruments modules took a bit of time to appreciate. With both Plaits and Beads, at first I was like "Was this a mistake?" 😱 Did I fall for the hype? No! These modules are incredible! They have a depth of musicality that is uncommon. It takes a bit of learning to access it all...

I've been experimenting with the Daisy platform lately. Lots of fun! For reasons I'd be happy to elaborate on, I don't think I would choose it for a professional project, but it is great for prototyping and quickly testing ideas💡 Open source wins again! 🕺🪩💻👾 #synthsky #synthdiy

My sister pointed out how happy I've been since I got into synthesizers a few years ago 🥰😭

I think Xaoc Zadar is a great module and insanely versatile. I think I also just highly prefer analog style workflows. Just give me knob per function control and good modulation possibilities and I'm good as far as envelope and LFOs go. I can see why people rate Zadar so highly tho 🤷‍♂️🎶 #synthsky

I recently learned that if you use 2 amplifiers instead of 1, then average the signals back together, you can reduce common mode noise by 3dB. 4 amps can achieve a reduction of 6dB. If this seems really basic, it's because I read it on page 7 of my book 😅 Reading on to learn why 3dB...

So based on this (very good) book I'm reading, I'm no longer sure if I'll be able to fit the Shapeware 1U analog wave shaper circuit in 6HP without making some serious compromises. It could surely be done by robots, but for now I need to keep things hand solderable! Need more opamps 👀 #synthsky

Having a ton of fun processing Plaits through Beads today! I'm feeling much more comfortable with the module after a few hours learning and internalizing the UI. A very different granular experience from Morphagene! #modular #synthsky

Oh, hello 👀 #modular #synthsky #mutableinstruments