Started to set up a recording environment on my iPad to record some audio from my Hydrasynth. I’ll share this over the next few days. Exploring some evolving pads in conjunction with some beautiful chord progressions and melodies. The plan being to share a sample pack that you can buy right here. Experimenting!

Recorded a bunch of loops using Battalion, my favourite drum machine right now from Unfiltered Audio. Exploring the beta inside the beta for loopy pro 2. Cool stuff.

Took a little walk along a local river this morning, where the Blackwater meets the Loddon on the county border. Looking lush and green. I tried recording some sounds but took the wrong mic for the job. Good excuse to go back. Talking of audio, next post features some ideas I was playing with earlier.

Perfect Saturday listening.

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Testing out the incredible Battalion from unfiltered audio today which I’ve got running on TestFlight as a beta right now for the iPad. It’s available on desktop already. My favourite feature is the performance screen and the depth know which adjusts the amount of variance across all adjusted effected parameters. I think. Fills are great and the sequencer looks very good for more of a deep dive. I want to play this on the large speakers we’ve got over at the Westie for the next ModCaf meet-up.

We recently visited Cornwall for a few days and had a great time down there. One night we took a walk down to Newquay harbour and I just love these old fishing nets. They make a great subject for photography. We’re hoping to go back and spend another week there later in the summer. Love the place!

Today’s theme is based on hinges and door latches. I often go out for walks with my Ricoh GR3x looking for little details or tiny vistas as I like to call them. Often I find interesting textures and details that on a normal day, you’d whizz past and not see. Slow down. Take pictures. Stack sats!

Not sure if this is a bug in primal but when zapping an article, it doesn’t record it against the article. The payment does go out of my wallet though to the correct destination. @primal

Photography around churchyards is incredibly interesting and for some reason gets my black and white eyes engaged. Stonework is very textural and therefore loaded with tones. Hence black and white is good. The Oxeye Daisies amused me, my dark sense of humour reminded me of the phrase “pushing up the daisies”. Is there a connection between that, old English perhaps and their presence in such places? I’ve often seen the letters JHR on graves, thinking it said LHR which would either mean Left-hand side or London Heathrow. No, none of those! It’s Latin, “Jesus Hominum” something else. I believe it represents Jesus our saviour. If anyone knows, I’d be interested to know!

Nature claiming back the old gravestones live there’s no tomorrow! I love seeing stuff like this, is photographic wonder.

These glorious blue doors belong to the church of St James, Finchampstead. I recall a photographer or two producing coffee table books dedicated to random doors around the world. I think there’s more room for books like that.

A photo of my mates homemade Theremin synth that someone sent to him as a thank you for something he helped them with. It came as a kit and he has had masses of fun with it that’s for sure.

What a glorious tree! I came across this ancient Yew in the graveyard of a church in Aldermaston, Berkshire as part of my church photography project which incidentally is going to be posted here too, as an ongoing series. Will resume my bridges of the River Thames project too.

Uploading photos in primal isn’t working for me at the moment and it’s a tad annoying!

Me jamming with a couple of other artists, I’m wearing the rusty coloured fleece over on the right hand side. My synth is the second photo. The other two musicians were playing a Buchla (middle) and a Polyend synth (right) - the Moog Matriarch/Grandmother not sure which of the two it was in this case, can’t remember as it didn’t play a part in the jam. Did I record it? Sadly not! Someone else might have done.

Great discovery, finding tour music

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Right let’s do some more Nostring this week as I’ve neglected it recently. Naughty, I know! Hope you are all doing ok?

Have been testing the latest version of Loopy Pro for the iPad recently. It’s a beta version due for release quite soon. Here’s an example.

@PappasBland it’s now possible to spend with your crypto balance as a Revolut customer! They say: Spend straight from your crypto balance, wherever you are — with zero exchange fees. Fair usage fees may apply. I’m going to try this out somehow. You can now add crypto based virtual cards to your Revolut app and to your phones digital wallet. I’ll see where I can test this out in the future @BTC Map will be the place to look. I believe there’s a pub not far from us that accepts payments via bitcoin.

Let’s see what happens with this new experiment of mine, to sell sample packs online, this is just a little one but I’m working on some beefier selections that I will be selling as Koala projects and as a bundle of zipped up files. This one features a collection of sounds recorded around my kitchen, that could be used in percussive ways and there are a couple of drone loops in here that were recorded from our fridge. All you need to do is download the pack from here:

Google Drive

HiveSoundPack1-around-the-house - Google Drive

Please zap in order to pay for the pack, it’s kind of like donationware. I’m sure there are other ways of selling digital products here, let me know of your favourites and I will try those out in the future.