Author Archives: retrospectuk

Today I went into the studio to add the finishing touches to my first modular track. I had done the majority of it in my first session (which I have previously made a blog post about) so today was all about just making sure I was completely happy with it. Right now i’m just goingContinue reading “Finishing My First Modular Track.”

For my second track, I decided to go through with doing a live performance. My original plan was to book out two modular racks, the Drumbrute, the TR-09, the Prophet 8, and Kork Minilog which is exactly what I did. Although, after I had already collected my hardware and got into the studio I realisedContinue reading “Live Performance.”

This week I booked out the studio for a long session to start the production of my first track. I downloaded a whole load of samples that i’ve curated over the past month by using modular racks, hardware synths and drum machines, and put them into an Ableton project to sort through them. After aboutContinue reading “Composing The First Track”

This is the second week in a row now that i’ve been experimenting with modular racks and i’m really getting comfortable with it. I feel confident with patching and especially confident using one particular rack which includes: the ‘Eloquencer’ ( an incredible sequencer made by ‘Winter Modular’ that has a huge variety of features toContinue reading “Second Modular Session.”

This week we started learning modular synthesis in class which has been my favourite type of synthesis i’ve ever experimented with. Sound design is something I spend extensive amounts of time learning, and modular synths have always been something i’ve been fascinated so this was very exciting for me. We got into the studio asContinue reading “First Modular Session.”

For this module we are required to produce two contrasting tracks by exploring a wide range of hardware equipment. In lesson over the next couple of months I’ll be learning and experimenting with lots of different types of hardware with the end result of me having a high level of understanding of the equipment toContinue reading “Introduction”

This week, we learnt a very unique way of synthesis, called ‘no input mixing’; this means creating a feedback loop to make some incredibly interesting and dirty synth sounds. We first got taught a very simple chain to create feedback loops, but you can add as many bits of hardware as you want to thisContinue reading “Feedback Loops”