Happy Yule! Hails to you and yours. Please enjoy this new compilation of winter synth that I got to be a part of. So many great artists are on here!

Just finished Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki. Feeling hopeful, and also recharged in the creative department. It was beautiful, and the story, from 1983, timeless.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

It’s on sale. Oh no, Nightreign DLC is right around the corner but I never played the full DLC. Okay. I have to. I loved it the first time around.

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Tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 28th at 6pm EDT, @thestateofsynth.com chats with one hell of an incredible talent. Anniee will be our guest! @nr.fm . Synths mostly come at night. Mostly. Tune in live and join the chat here: nightride.fm/chat?station... or here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfx...

Bring Her Back hit a couple of the holes in my armor so hard that the armor’s useless. Gonna need a few days to come back from this one. It was excellent though! In a while I will revisit it.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Does anyone know what the monster "Kevin" is on the board in Cabin In The Woods? Bonus points for why no one bets on it.

Getting into Godot lately. Enjoying it immensely so far, even if it's been following tutorials. I used to love playing Stone Soup on plane trips so I think starting with a roguelike is a good option for me. Yes, talk me out of it please... OR drop some Godot-related links for me to check out.

It’s totally normal for me to buy tickets for The Cure in Ireland next year, just in case I get to go, right? Right?

I’m about to experience an incredible hot pepper season. Here’s three of the 12 plants I have going in the garden.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Today's one of those days where I wish it was worthwhile for game developers (mostly talking indies/solo devs here) to support Mac users. I fully understand that the number of mac vs pc users doesn't make sense for a dev to tear their hair out for a handful of us without a pc, but one can wish!

My wife decided to cheer me up this morning with coffee and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 in bed before we head to my first synth show in Richmond today. Coffee helped. I have a sudden urge to never eat chili again. I feel thankful that she knows and delivers on cheering me up with art of all kinds.

It's a Thursday and I'm overwhelmed with work so why not get a Nightreign run in to push my anxiety into great new heights?

Going to bark at the moon tonight.

That strat has enough modifications, but we can make more. Can’t have those blinding orange strings over a white pickguard. No. Need to add more black to this with a new pickguard, black pickup covers, and black accessories. Then maybe custom resin knobs in black and orange to match?

All I want to do is make music and play Elden Ring at the same time.

Checking out Daggerheart this week. So far I’m impressed with just how much info is in the book, and the cards are a great addition. Very neat package, and tons of great art.

Been quiet lately for a lot of reasons. One of them is keeping more of a balance between being online and totally closing the internet out. This is part my recent library haul. There was also a book on songwriting and a horror novel I picked up too. 📚

With the new Logic update adding in AI, I’m going to have to do research before continuing to use it. I have questions. • Do I have to label everything coming out of Logic AI?generated even when I won’t be using it? • Can I take AI out of my build completely? support.apple.com/en-asia/109503

Tonight at 6pm EST on @thestateofsynth.com, we have a marathon episode to celebrate Starcadian, including guests and submitted dedications. @nr.fm. It's freak night every night. Tune in live and join the chat here: nightride.fm/chat?station... or here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfx...

Next Tuesday at 6pm EST, @thestateofsynth.com will celebrate the being known as Starcadian. If you have a good story or thoughts about this incredible artist and person, submit it to thestateofsynth.com/shoutout/. We'll read it out on air as we play slamming tracks from the star traveller.

Came across this photo today. It’s from our move from California to Virginia a few years ago. Got to stop at Moog in Asheville and picked up a Subharmonicon. This was the “studio” at the farmhouse in NC we rented for a couple weeks during the cross-country drive.

Got a new synth a few days ago as a gift. I’m at that one point (this happens to everyone right?) where knowing that I should rtfm but also pleased that I got this far without rtfm and why should rtfm? You get me. Right?

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If you're feeling demotivated, finish ANYTHING related to what you're feeling demotivated towards.

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All day I dream about MAKING MY OWN PRESETS 🍦🎹 granular synth stuff is exciting stuff in the grand scheme of stuffs

I’m behind the camera here freaking out over the Dark Souls playing cards while mentally punishing myself for not finishing the soldering of the noise box in the front there. #darksouls #sounddesign

Do that thing where you take a breath and think of something cool you did in life. Then breathe out slowly and relax the muscles in your face. Feel better? Good. Now get comfortable while I tell you the story of the little pigs in Dark Souls 2

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Hell yeah there's a listening party for my new album on Thursday 💥 Hell YEAH I couldn't resist doing a raved out Y2K-ass poster for it 💥 RSVP and get timezone info below - we're gonna have a blast 💖 alphachromeyayo.bandcamp.com/album/dream-... 💖

How it started / how it’s going

It’s almost time for a Friday night music session. This is my happy place.

Synthesizers

(Cute snuggling dog + Balatro) * 3 modular synth-related shots = x Solve for x

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My wife and I are very much coaching and cheering each other on when playing Balatro. Holy smokes this is the game we didn’t know we both needed! It’s been a wild and fun time over this holiday season here.

I guess everybody needs a 303

Holiday vacation time has landed. My plans for today are: 1. Get an everything bagel and put the works on it (everything on everything, trust me) 2. Record a modular synth jam, look for samples in the chaos 3. Snuggle with the pets 4. Balatro or Bloodborne, why not both?

The Arturia Minifreak was already fantastic, but now they've added a sample engine with 7 distinct granular playback options. It's rad, here's a video on it. youtu.be/BxIHhwe48ls?...

Been procrastinating wrapping the rest of the gifts and hooking up my new mixer. Damn you, Balatro. Damn you! (jk Balatro pls let me win the next run! 🙏)

Going to rewatch the Video Game Awards tonight. I stopped making a list of the games I want to play after the first time my jaw hit the floor. I jumped off the couch for fist pumps & shouts of joy. This year’s announcements were a treat. No shortage of wonderful and awesome titles coming soon.

Making an upgrade to the studio today. It is coming in the nick of time as my trusty Apogee Duet 2 has lost the screen functionality and seems to be dropping the sound randomly. Pretty excited over here.

Qubit Stardust is my module of the year, and I just released a video on it. It's a tape looper with all kinds of neat tricks. In this demo we see if it can Boards of Canada (yeah it can). Check out the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMv6...