Synths are pure joy! Everyone should have at least one, with a knob and a slider or 50! I’ve been through a few of them now and picked up a couple samplers as well.
If you want a good cheap starting synth, check out the electribes, Korg’s Poly800, Casio CZ101, or if you’re very patient and nerdy, the Yamaha TX81Z and their other FM synths. You can get a synth that will bring you many hours of fun for under $100 these days.
There’s always software, too, which can sometimes be had for free (see: buzzmachines.com) but is still not nearly as fun as having a synth on your lap or desk.
Aug 30, 2005, 07:44PM PDT | 0 comments
I picked up some new musical equipment (Nord Micro Modular synthesizer, Yamaha A5000 sampler, and a Yamaha RM1x sequencer is on the way) this summer and I haven’t done much in the way of figuring out how to use it yet. I’ve made a couple patches on the Nord and a few sample sets on the A5000 but I haven’t made any finished songs with them yet.
I don’t want all that processing power to go to waste, you know? Not to mention money.
Aug 30, 2005, 07:39PM PDT | 0 comments
Well, I’ve definitely come a ways since I added this goal. I have a part time job writing PHP now, though it’s mostly simple stuff. Moreso I’ve been getting better at MySQL queries which I think is really the difficult part of PHP.
I definitely haven’t mastered PHP yet but I’m pretty comfortable with it now. Moreso than Java, even! Good old Java seems slightly confusing now…
Aug 30, 2005, 07:21PM PDT | 0 comments
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