Let me tell you about the life of a patch. It might start incredibly simple — for example, maybe a sine wave oscillator […]
Patch 11: Roll Your Own Strega
Two years ago, when Strega had just come out and that first wave of influencer videos was inescapable, I made several attempts to […]
Patch 10: Strega Joins the Crew
So, uh, I got a Strega! A birthday present from my wife and myself, I suppose? She gave me a gift card worth […]
Patch 9: Drum Design Part 1
Woo, the last few weeks got kind of intense, didn’t they? Well, we can step back and take a deep breath now, because […]
Patch 8: Tape and Microsound My Way
Our final RPM performance patch is here, and it is a doozy. To close out the series, I wanted to do a patch […]
Patch 7: 0-CTRL in Full Control
This patch is a great example of how modular can look really confusing by the time a patch is done — hell, it […]
Patch 6: The Benjolin Breaks Out!
After weeks of tweaking our prior patch to last week’s performance setup point, it felt pretty weird to pull it all out. Once […]
WTF is a Benjolin?
This week’s patch will be a deep dive and exploration of the Benjolin, but the thing is, a Benjolin is … kinda confusing […]
Patch 5: Accompaniment for Performance
Happy February! As I mentioned last week, this week marks the end of phase one of this project, and the beginning of phase […]
Patch 4: Effects and Control
Let’s recap the past three weeks, briefly; we first built a very simple mono synth patch in week one. In week two we […]