
Performing with Synthesizers
The month of May is passing fast. Memorial Day weekend is upon us! They say this weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. Speaking of summer, that is usually when I have a performance or two even if it is at a coffee house or open mic. Currently my live rig consists of three synths: The Jupiter-50, JU-06 and the JD-Xi pictured below: The Jupiter-50 has been my main stage synth for about 2 years. I have also recently incorporated the JU-06 and JD-Xi as secondary synths. I

Writing Music with an MMT-8
This evening I am back in my studio kicking around ideas and have connected my first sequencer, the Alesis MMT-8, to handle MIDI sequencing duties. I have been using the MMT-8 Sequencer for over 25 years now. It is a simple MIDI sequencer which pretty much does straight forward recording without the technical headaches which can happen when using a computer to run a DAW. There are a couple of things that do hinder the use of the MMT-8 (these can be overcome) and that is it h