Merry Christmas. It's Christmas Eve and 

I'm thinking fondly of some synthesizers I've played or programmed. Here's one that has to be my all time favorite economy synthesizer.

Also used by The Prodigy, Howard Jones, and Greg Ruddell. It was not designed by Bob Moog, but was based on the MiniMoog by engineers, "engineer Rich Walborn and the late, great Tony Marchese" Moog Foundation

I've used mine quite a bit as a bass instrument in my own music. Only 11,000 of them were built during the span of 1981-1984. I got mine as quite a bargain, perhaps in another story.

I've got Moog Miniesque synth plugins that I use sometimes in sequencer music, but they don't quite capture the lush sound that comes from an analog synth, even a simplified MiniMoog. 

I find that the sounds made by the Prodigy are much more pleasing to the ear than say, my Akai Professional MINIAK! So I make a distinction between the three kinds of music I play. Those are: recorded and edited, played live with assistance, and playing without a net - just analog synths and maybe a drum machine.

It's here! The album you've all been waiting for.

A brief pause at post mortoween.

It is practically Christmas, and if you practice, maybe they will name you Chancellor some day.  Just remember to hire some Dutchman to set fire to Lord Snowden.

"Liberal rubish! Klaus, what do you want with your jugged fish?"

Okay, instead of halibut, let's go to something completely different.

 

Once Upon a Time, in Esom Hill, there was a farmer who followed the Lord. In the first book of the Bible, it says "God granted mankind dominion over the green herb bearing seed. To you it shall be as meat." A contractual language, God doesn't say what he wants in return. But it is clear that mankind thinks they know better than God over what should be legal for the brothers of mankind. Believe if you want to but get it right!  Mistakes cost time and money, and this will be no exception. Don't dawdle.

 Fall Risk: A new direction in musical entertainment.

That name keeps coming back. I think I might expire of natural causes before that happens though. We'll see how it goes. There's no good reason to think medical care could improve even more that is, if we don't find ourselves living in the dark ages. 

It's not all gloom and doom. I enjoy moments in every day, but I must admit that most of my time is wasted doing tasks that I'm not well suited for. I'm working on that problem too, but I can only offer what I have to give. I can only give back what I can create. It's a sad football Charlie Brown.

Don't forget to disable autocorrect whenever and wherever possible. Don't let those people tell you what to do. You should be free to express yourself in the language of your own choosing. That should be recognized as a God given right. Fut Autocorrect would tell you otherwise. Actually, you won't notice that they've mangled your text until after you hit enter and look back on your work that you see Autocorrectx has made you look like a sloppy fool. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Shoddy workmanship should be abandoned in favor of things that are well made. That's my argument against China. They make such fragile crap out of plastic that is probably contaminated with poison that they think we are too fat and happy to notice.

Okay, tea break over. Back on your heads!

 

Happy Halloween!

Pulsar 232 just had their album re-released in stores and Spotify, etc. It's called Interstellar Paradise. Check it out!

This is the Wizard Deluxe model. It is a fictional character in a real story that began so long ago. Sometimes people want to look inside it to see how it works. Some people are curious like that. It doesn't have anything inside it. There used to be batteries and circuitry. It was the command module for a 6 wheeled robot. I took a toy from radio shack and connected its motor output to a diode bridge with 4 small DPDT relays. It worked perfectly and was so powerful it was scary. It had a remote control and it had a switch so the robot would come to you or follow you. Very cool, you should try it some time. Just find the control cable to the motors on the wheels.

I've got some progress to report on the Grey project. It is going well to say that I was able to find and place the java SQLite software on my Mac, so now everything is working. I've discovered things that JFRED could do that I didn't realize. I'm impressed with Paco Nathans work on it. That one package has given me more of an education than the brick and mortar universities failed miserably at. I'm sure there are good schools somewhere but we don't have them in Georgia, unless maybe Georgia Tech can do it. I've had to educate myself despite having about 200 credit hours of  college in Georgia. That's a story for another time.

On the music front, I think my next album will drop on 08/23/2024. It's called Georgia Jungle. It doesn't mean anything and the name was an accident where my working title got glommed into the upload stream and I just left that. Sometimes things write themselves.

I am no longer using Distrokid or Tunecore. They owe me money, but they become bitter when you stop using their product. It will save me some money.