Hiiiiii my friends,

It’s been a while since I posted or uploaded anything — I felt truly creative, to be honest, and felt into a dark hole of emptiness. The heatwave completely knocked my brain offline, but I’m slowly finding my way back.

I’ve built a brand-new live setup, which I debuted last week at Meet the Machines in Hannover. Its mainly made for playing dance tracks, but I figured it works also for ambient music well. The feedback from the Hannover audience was fantastic, even though I wasn’t entirely happy with my performance—I hadn’t rehearsed much, I had sound issues and some of the newly added gear was still unfamiliar (Assembler Mixer and Korg Kaoss Pad 3).

The new setup is actually quite complex under the hood. I’ll dive deeper into it in a separate post, but for now, here’s a quick gear list for the curious:

Elektron Digitakt…

Hello fellow fellas :)

It has been a while I posted news here but there is a good reason for that: I was out for a trip to NYC and went into total vacation mode during the past 10 days.

Here are some impressions that I want to share with you guys. Loved the vibe and the skyscrapers a lot x

Musically, the Tracker Mini made once more a perfect travel companion! We travelled with small footprint luggage so I had no space to carry a Digitakt with me, but why if the Tracker can make it? I had it with me all the time and even on the subway I created some jams with it (and those rides can be very long!).

We also visited a super nice exhibition titled "Dream House" located right at the Broadway, 5 minutes walking distance to our hotel at Ground Zero. This exhibition…

🎛️ A new Jam video and some inflight greetings 🛫

Warm greetings from 37000 feet above the ground! We’re on half way of our flight LX16 to New York and I am working on some video footage I took the other night ❤️

I am practicing further with the Solar 42F internal sequencers. As much as I like to write the melodies with Ableton Live and send them via the Korg SQ-1 to the Solar, I want to make better use of the internal features because it's better for travelling and I also want to get better with performing on one machine.

For this jam, I devided the touch sensitive keyboard in two separate controllers, each of them is playing different melodies on the two VCO voices using the sequencer features.

🎛️ New Toy in the Signal Chain! 🎛️

After my last gig, I realized just how wide the dynamic range of my setup can get — especially with the Lyra-8 pushing the PA system to its limits (sorry, ears 😅).

Up to now, I hadn't been using any limiters or compressors at the end of my signal chain — relying mostly on the venue’s mixer. But it became clear I needed something that could tame the lows and adapt more flexibly to different room acoustics.

Flashback to a great chat with @nogasayan at Superbooth 25 about the Golden Master Pedal by @Endorphin.es - He had tested it on video, and by chance, my friend @winters5796 had the Eurorack version and let me borrow it to try out 🙌

After a few tests, I’m really impressed! The multiband processing is the killer feature for me:

The Volca Bass will be a solid foundation for my new, portable and low budget dawless Techno setup. 65 CHF cia tutti.ch !

I’m up since 5 (don’t ask me about it), tired af, but I can’t wait to splash into Superbooth and the German capital to meet the music maker fam and loved friends from all around the world.

This year, I am super curious about hardware news from Vermona (they teased a drum machine), Elta Music (a mix extension for the Solar 42F), and Oxi Instruments (OxiOne MKII).

I also registered for a Tape Loop workshop on Saturday and some side parties on Friday (Modular Society and Raw Industries Live Hardware Madness).

See you in Berlin xxx