Inline MP3s

I’ve added a new WordPress plugin that will let me inline a player with MP3 links. Here’s a sample of a noise piece I made a while back using Thonk: Joe McMahon – An Ocean of Liquid Helium - click on the little speaker icon following the link to play the track.

Housecleaning

I’ve started going through the various subpages in the site, cleaning them up to look better (all fixed text is so retro), and fixing lots of broken links. First up is the MIDI spec pages; I’ll be converting them over the next few weeks to look much better than they do [...]

The ARP 2600 manual

blue-face Arp 2600Quite some time back, I found a scanned copy of the ARP 2600 User’s manual. I’ve always had a soft spot for the 2600, though I could never quite afford one; it’s always seemed like a great balance as far as analog synths go.In a recent fit of “my disk is too full”, I unzipped the file of scans and started reading. It’s really a very good introduction to the machine and how it works; I’ve actually started feeling like if I had one in front of me, that I’d be able to use it effectively. Continue reading The ARP 2600 manual