What I wish I knew when I started out with Git ...

Back in 2019, P. came to me to help them do some soldering. They had a regular pcb-mount phones socket (6.3 mm, 1/4″) and the legendary Elektron Machinedrum in the luggage.

Sometimes DIY is frustrating: Projects are on-hold because things broke, components are missing and hard to find, and again you are uncertain if the thing you are trying to build will ever do what you want…

I just released a new version of my “AKAI MPC 1000 sequence file command line utility”.

This post developed during the DIY MIDI controller workshop at Schmiede 2019 in Hallein (Austria). It was used as a presentation and documentation tool.

Alright, let’s do something boring: Building a battery charger. So why would you do that? I don’t have any idea, just go buy one! ;-) But apparently I had a reason to build one myself.

MIDI controllers are not the most complicated things on earth to build and program.

This is the story of a robots life.

Alright, probably every MPC owner experiences it after a while: Buttons getting sluggish, you have to really bang them hard to still get a function.

Out of the box the Volca Beats is not velocity sensitive, neither when triggered via MIDI, nor when using the onboard 16-step sequencer.

While searching for circuit-bendable cheap old drum machines on a second hand platform, my sister tells me that there might be something of interest on the attic…

The mission: My friend L's Korg Monotron should become controllable via MIDI from a DAW.

From now on this site will contribute to the internet with unbelievably cool things!