Month: November 2024

If I choose new gear, I want it to interface with my existing gear. That means the interface would be either an XLR connection or a 1/4” jack. 1/8” inch means an adaptor which would potentially degrade the signal or worse.

I’ve been playing with the Mother-32 and Mavis. Dug out the manuals and will go digging on YouTube to see if there’s any useful videos there. The Mother-32 manual has presets in the back of the manual for a start if your’re stuck as a beginner, but they’re a bit lame.

The one thing about the Moog gear, when there’s a firmware update, you need to remember if your gear has it installed, as there’s no way to check which version is installed. I supposed you can review the manual addendum to see if the added features exist on your gear, but, for the money you pay for the Moog name, there should have been a more user-friendly system in place. And with the Mother-32, the update process id a bit convoluted.

I ordered a set of art supplies on November 1, and and Temu charged my credit card. Temu notified me that the order would not be fulfilled November 7. It took Temu until November 13 to issue a refund and of yet I have not seen the refund. Is Temu running a scam?

Well, instead of using my hardware synths, I decided to crank up the soft synth UVI Falcon thru Ableton Live. I think Falcon is considered a digital recreation. And it has so many settings, it could blow your mind. Anyway, I had a blast fooling around with the controls, and I saved some of them as presets.

I’m thinking that I should break out Pigments by Arturia, which is another soft synth and Serum, another deep and satisfying soft synth.

Maybe I need to take a longer break from using only hardware to make my music, since I seem to be stuck trying to wrap up the album which I had hoped would be a DAW-less creation. It’s proved to be more difficult to pull off than I originally had thought.