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

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