Great news everyone - D’Naab 136, the guy who designed the replacement for the Juno 106 chips, has just let me know he released a version two of his creation, which is smaller, better, and helps to keep your dog happy. Or your snake. And it’s still 40 euros. Awesome!
I bought a bunch of original chips off eBay last year, and one of them already died, plus there is one more that’s getting really noisy. Learn from my stupidity, and get the replacement chips.
Now, I’ve received quite a few comments to my original post with people asking how to fix their Juno. Most of those had to do with the same old VCF/VCA chips dying. I have put together a list of possible symptoms of a dead chip.
Continue reading ‘Juno 106: Chip Replacements + Symptoms’
Camille emailed me the other day with a question about her Juno. I checked out the music on her MySpace page, and liked it a lot.
The choice of instruments, song structure, and lyrics are all quite outstanding, with a sense of her personal style throughout all the works. The tunes brought up images of childhood, beach sand, and bright summer days shot on handheld 8mm cameras. Great to see catchy, bright, well-written songs among the mostly structureless works of the many indie artists.
Take a listen to the tracks. I liked all four. There is something for both indie heads and synth junkies too (I fall into both categories).
I’ve been listening to Eddie Holliwell’s mix the other day, and he played a new awesome track by Thomas Bangalter (well, Thomas co-created it with Mehdi but the meat of the track is obviously him). It is very in line with early Daft Punk creations, which are very loopy, repetitive, yet marvellous. It reminded me of “Music Sounds Better With You”, and now I can’t get it out of my head (kind of a hard track to hum though).
Thomas hasn’t changed his style too much over the years unlike others, and that’s one of the things I wanted to bring up for a while now - the invasion of electro.
Continue reading ‘Personal Style and Electro’
I know I said I’d like to keep the blog free of discussions of software or hardware. But then, I also wanted the blog to enrich Internet with original content valueable to newcomers and professionals alike, or something like that, so that’s my excuse.
Besides, people constantly ask the versus questions, which fuels all sorts of flame throwing. I’m using both DAWs equally often now, so I’ll try to give you an idea why/when you’d use one over the other without all the “Logic just sounds better” crap.
UPDATE: Now that I’ve used Logic for quite some time, I have a bit of an update.
Continue reading ‘Cubase vs. Logic’
