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BS/OD #615

shaggy — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:15:39 +0000

Savage is angry now! What will he do next? Keep tuning in to find out!

Synth Build Update – Power!

shaggy — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:25:33 +0000

I received the new parts to complete my power supply the other day and today I finished that part of the build. After I soldered the last few parts, I hooked it up to the meter to see if I was getting the right voltages from the output. As you can see from the picture, [...]

BS/OD #614

shaggy — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:16:31 +0000

Will the crew keep the little imp? Keep tuning in to find out!

Weekly Music Update

shaggy — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:09:04 +0000

This past weeks homework assignment dealt with balance. We were given a tiny section of Jupiter by Holst and orchestrate it two different ways. The first time it needed to be with a small number of instruments. The second time it would be a larger number of instruments. Below is what I ended up with and [...]

Field Recording

shaggy — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:22:33 +0000

As a kid, I recorded a ton of stuff with my Dad’s tape recorder. There was something magic about playing a particular sound back at will. In a way, it was like a time machine for sound and that thrilled me. I always wanted to find a way to easily recapture that feeling but it [...]

BS/OD #613

shaggy — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:15:33 +0000

So what is the real story behind all this Jabberwocky business? Keep tuning in to find out!

Synth Build Update

shaggy — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:33:38 +0000

So, I learned some major lessons today. First of all, there’s no way I’m going to finish the synth this week and there’s a lot of reasons for this. While my desire to get it done quickly is a bold and ambitious venture, it’s just not practical. First of all, I’m at some of the [...]

We Have Power!

shaggy — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:40:45 +0000

Well, we sort of have power. After finishing up my homework for the week, I got started on what should be a fairly easy part of my synth build. Today I soldered all of the parts onto the power supply PCB. I was going to test it out but the wall wart that I had [...]

Weekly Music Update

shaggy — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:43:26 +0000

Last week’s assignment in my Orchestration 2 class dealt with homophonic writing. Homophonic writing is when a passage has all instruments playing the same rhythm but the pitches may vary. While I quickly grasped that idea, I had a few issues in getting things to sound the way I wanted. I suppose it wasn’t so [...]

Taking A Break and Making a Synth

shaggy — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:55:47 +0000

There are some projects that I’ve left linger in my to do list for some time. I get so busy with some things that I find it difficult to make time to finish them. One of those projects is the synthesizer I’ve been building over the past few years. It really should have been done [...]