Hello

[Xangis]

Greetings,

I'm Jason. I create music as Bloodless Mushroom (6 albums released, more experimental electronic paintings made with sound than pop hits) and run a few websites that might be useful to members -- freewavesamples.com and soundprogramming.net. They've been around forever, so long-time electronic music folks have probably grabbed a sample or a manual from one of those at some point.

I've also written some audio software (been a while now) -- an additive softsynth, two drum machines, a theremin, and a sampler. None of them are plugins, all standalone apps. Maybe they'll get pluginized some day.

I'm mostly a hardware person and own too much hardware (8 keyboard synths, 22 rack modules, 3 guitar synths, and a dozen toy keyboards). I like the idea of software synthesizers, but creating music with a computer is extremely anti-inspirational for me, so computers are just for recording and processing audio, not creating it. It took creating software synthesizers to really grasp that. I'm a software engineer by trade, so you'd think that softsynths would be a thing. Nope. Mechanic's car and all.

A while back I was a regular at darksonus.com, but that died a slow, boring death. When your home dries up and goes away it leaves you feeling a little lost, so haven't been on any audio forums in years.

I'm interested in exploring a bit of hardware experimentation, especially with FM. I'm no electrical engineer. I can solder, and basic repairs like potentiometer/knob/component replacement or adding an audio output to a toy keyboard are easy, but complex circuits freak me out.

Cheers,
Jason

[blue hell]

Jason