SynthOps

What is it! The CDP is a project to create many audio tools and effects and make them available for public use. It was used by folks like Aphex Twin to craft sounds. I recently cross compiled it for apple silicon. These tools are availble for M1+ macs here: As an artifact in CI! Read More

Types of Movement There are three major types of chord movement. A step, a third, and a 4th. When moving around a scale you can use different types of movement to create a different feel. Step Movement Step movement creates neutral emphasis on either chord. An example of step movement is C-D-Em in the key of C. 4th Movement This is a powerful ... Read More

Motivation These are a couple of quick hacks that I use to think about modes, they’re not as good as memorization of which notes have changed in a mode, but they work. FIFO Mode If you think about the major scale pattern W-W-H-W-W-W-H as a FIFO (first in first out) queue, you can quickly derive the pattern of each mode. Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian,... Read More

Creating with Entropy I love to involve entropy and randomness in my music. I thought it would be great to be able to randomly generate patches. I backed up my Roland, figured out what the synth expected for a patch file, and created a randomizer. I would categorize these patches as experimental. However, you’re usually not more than a few adju... Read More

The problem I found the workflow for loading samples onto the Digitakt frustrating when paired with the file structure of samples from mars. I really didn’t want to be pitching notes and shifting them to fit the key, so I created this tool. The solution This tool will grab all of the C tuned files from a Samples from Mars pack, and put them in ... Read More