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

Some of my followers requested a video about patching and setup of my latest jam. Here it is - as you know I´m not modular yet so I hope I explain everything good haha the video also includes some basic info about the Solar 42F, might be interesting for some as well.

Cheers and happy Superboothing :)

Mat

Patching & Setup video

Hi guys,

in an earlier Blogpost, I talked about my summer setup. Well. I decided to slim it down and focus on one instrument - that strategy worked well with my previous liveset based on the Lyra-8. The main benefit for me is that I will learn this instrument much faster than having other gear in the setup I need to handle. So, my next liveset will be Solar 42F only - with a little addition: I added the BigSky Reverb so i can use a nice Delay on the Solar followed by a huge reverb (the Solar has actually 2 effect slots but the knobs change both at once which is a bummer ... so i went the complicated but save route).

"Here and Now" is the title of my upcoming performance. I decided to keep the setup minimalistic and I will play it only with the Solar 42F,…

Here are some insights with "Elastic Stage", a Vinyl on Demand Service that I used for my latest album. I shared these on Discord in another group I am member, but the thread content is vanishing fast and I wanted to keep this without further editing - its just pasted from the other forum.

First of all, Elastic Stage is a Distributor as far as I understood. The release gets a EAN number and the tracks get their own ISRC numbers, but you can put in existing numbers too so you can re-release older albums on ES.

The workflow is pretty straightforward - you enter Metadata, upload tracks and Artwork files, for these they offer easy Templates (Illustrator or PDF format). After that’s done, you create your artist page and a release page, this is a bit like every other online website editor, except it includes the vinyl offering automatically.