This week, we’re finally starting our one-man band double feature. Robin Sukroso is a musician who I’ve met some years ago at Hans & Gloria Festival, and we’ve played a couple of shows together. He plays a Breedlove Black Magic acoustic guitar which he enhanced himself with force-sensing resistor trigger pads (FSRs). Using these, he […]
I promised to write about my new setup once it is in a working state. My goal was to to replace the analog 19″ mixer rack (see my post on Loopdeck Embedded Linux) with a digital mixer that is much smaller in size and offers total recall. The problem with all products I could find […]
For the last years, I have been working with a drum trigger interaction system based on an acoustic drumset and the Nord Modular G2 synthesizer. The basic idea is to control multiple step sequencers by drum hits. Like that, the musician can interact with preprogrammed note patterns in his own musical feel and timing. People […]
After jamming with a friend’s Boss RC-20 I decided to integrate live looping in my setup. Since I haven’t found any device that completely suits my needs as a drummer, I started to build my own looper device: the Loopdeck. It’s a portable device that fits into a 19″ rack and runs a minimal Linux […]