Vacoloco Ramblings

Well, the event is over, the noise in cambridge has gone
It was a great event, we had lots of regular visitors and some new faces too!
The raffle raised £214 for the Drake Music Project, thanks to everyone who bought a ticket!
You can see pictures from the event by visiting the SynthDIY-UK 2006 Gallery.
Many [...]

Well, I’ve been playing with it for over a week and I’m still having fun with it.
This is my first guiitar in over 20 years, so maybe it’s just me or the hot weather (England is having a major heatwave at the moment) but it does seem to drift out of tune easily, it could [...]

Recently there’s been a fair bit of talk amongst various friends of mine about live music shows, where instead of people playing ‘instruments’ in the traditional sense, they’ve been writing code.
Yes, actually writing code, and ‘improvising’ in code, whilst performing. Now whilst a lot of people would question this as a valid form of ‘performance’ [...]

Yesterday (Friday) I got a new toy, it’s a Risa-Music Guitar Solid.

Now, I haven’t played guitar in a *long* time (> 20 years) and then I was only ‘noodling’ with a friends fathers guitar, so my experience with guitars is somewhat limited, but I’ve got a few years Bass experience.
So, what’s it like?
Firstly, it’s very [...]

I’ve added a gallery section to my site.
It’ll include various ‘gear’ pictures of my gear stash over the past and future years, at least that’s the plan.
There will also be pictures of my Dog, Stevie. Stevie is a cool dog, he’s a short, red-haired, Saluqi (or Saluki)..
and some general pictures from various places, including [...]

Some people have asked, what was tempest? Why did it die? and why was it going to cost soo much to build?
I’ll explain, Tempest was to be my ‘ultimate’ Polysynth. I wanted it to have everything, we’ll go quickly over the specs ;-

8 note polyphonic (expandible to 12),
4 oscillators per voice,
100 waveforms + saw, sine [...]

Well, I’ve Officially announed the new site and I’ve had some good comments about it (thanks everyone).
I’ve uploaded a pile of my music (> 200Mb) for people to download and, hopefully, enjoy listening too. I’ve got stuff from my very very first days playing with synths (SCI SixTrack) upto the stuff I’ve done only a [...]

Well, I’ve decided to close modulus-music.com. Basically I’m not going to be making any more commercial products, so there’s no point in having a site geared towards commercial sales.
There are many reasons, some of which I’m not going to talk about, but there are three main reasons ;-

RoHS/WEE has made things too expensive to produce, [...]