Walk and Weft

We are very pleased to announce a partnership with AMS Stands, makers of a quality, convenient, sturdy and secure solution for your musical hardware needs. The system comes in four size styles Micro Tower, Micro, Minor & Major, which can be freestanding desktop or piggybacked on to most keyboard stands. All parts are fully interchangeable across the range with a host of add-on accessories. We feel that there is a genuine connection between what they and we do and are happy to put their name forward.  The products and the prices look great! You can find them at www.amsstands.co.uk, tell...

At last, after 3 years, Synthfest at Sheffield is back!  We won't be there as exhibitors but of course we (or I, Daniel) will be there.  I'm pleased to have not missed a single one since it started.  It's always a nice, interesting, inspiring and noisy day!  I should wear a badge or something, if anyone would like to say hello... okay I'll wear my old Renoise T-Shirt!  I can't image too many others wearing such a thing, as it is something of an 'underground' DAW (and, of course, those in the know say that it is not a DAW...). ...

Just a few words to say we are on holiday from 18th June to 11th July 2022 (Scottish Highlands as usual) so won't be taking any orders during that period, and also not for a few days before so we can catch up with all outstanding orders before we set off.

This is just a little experiment really, but some people may find it useful.  Having chunky fingers does not endear me to Eurorack, though I do think it's a brilliant way to create a truly personalised piece of synth hardware.  My own rack is very basic: Mutable Plaits, a Takaab triple LFO module, a Vermona MeloDicer and a Toppobrillo Quantimator (which I've barely used).  It's my beloved Matriarch which has been doing Attenuator duties previously and they are handy modules, even a small rig like mine wants 3 or 4 of them. Liam and I talked a lot about the...

I've recently acquired a beaten up Korg DW8000 (it doesn't look as good as the one in the pic here...), a synth which I have previously owned two of, and missed each time it was sold. It has probably been gigged a lot, and now had a problem with unresponsive switches, noisy volume slider with the sound cutting out, some unresponsive keys and hanging notes.  Ann's son, Liam (the brains behind the MIDI Controllers) replaced all 22 new switches and volume control, and I got a new OS chip.  After spending some time with the keyboard mechanism I just about...