When my new purchased Technology Transplant TT303 met with my TB303 Devilfish something good was bound to happen. What followed was a series of 15 minute acid workouts for you to enjoy. You can buy all three of these serious workouts from my bandcamp page http://dylab.bandcamp.com/album/fishy-technology [bandcamp width=350 height=555 album=267533983 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5]
This is my homage to the great little synth the Roland SH101. Each track is uses a specific VCO range to create the sounds. This is a 4 track EP with some proper techno vibes. You can buy it now direct from my bandcamp page. https://dylab.bandcamp.com/album/sh101-business [bandcamp width=350 height=588 album=1185625637 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5]
I’ve had my MC202 for a long while – along with the Sh101 its one of the first synths I bought back in the late 1990’s. I’ve always enjoyed sequencing it but using it live meant writing patterns on the fly or using tape load to load new patterns. For a while now I’ve been […]
I’ve just moved house so have had to take down my old standing studio. I’ve got a bit more room at the new place so it’s allowed me to get some of my old gear out of storage and rack it all up again. I’ve used the ikea stolmen shelving system from my old standing […]
Thanks to the Creep crew for having me down to blast out some 808 action The party was in the basement of an old grain silo – concrete bunker – low ceiling and industrial waste everywhere This is the recording of my set. 808 – nto a yamaha MG12/4 mixer and a boss rrv-10 and […]
A while back I got an email from Scotty asking for a live set for their Electric Crush radio show on Brisbane’s 4ZZZ. This is pretty much live set, the 303 patterns are prewritten of course but the SH-101 , TR808 and BossPC-2 are all programmed live. Everything is fed into Ableton live for reverb […]
I’ve been digging through my old bookmarks and have found some great patches for the Roland MC202 synth/sequencer. These are archived using the wayback machine. You can view the original patch data at http://web.archive.org/web/20030609174604/pages.citenet.net/users/shawnm/202/patches.html Funky Synth by Enigma LFO VCO Source Mixer Rate Delay MOD Range PulseW *** Square Saw SubOSC *** 5 0 5 […]
I’ve created a new sample pack – its called the 808 Beast Sample pack and its out now via my bandcamp page. The sounds are from a Roland TR808 and given various amounts of distortion and AMP simulation – 8 levels of distortion for each sample. All the samples are recorded as 24 bit / […]
SKY LAB EP OUT NOW. Some serious 909 techno business. “this is a rhythmic hymn to the power of the Roland rhythm box: rolling, jerking and jacking in all the best ways. For fans of Happa, Kowton, Blawan, Green Velvet, Thomas Bangalter, DJ Sneak, DJ Pierre etc. Don’t sleep on this.” Out now on at […]
This Good Friday – David Haberfeld aka Honeysmack and owner of Melbourne’s Handmade Acid record label, invited a bunch of friends and the labels acid makers around for a celebration. This involved some good food, excellent drinks and a big synth session. For the gear heads, the Roland TR909 was the master clock device, this […]
I have just finished sorting out a new standing studio space. I have used the ikea stolmen system for the shelving. The main gear is on the shoe racks and the shelves at top for extra bits and pieces. The top rails was meant for cable management but its proved challenging at best. The space […]
I’ve self released a compilation of my footwork jams.These tracks are jammed out on my gear, namely the Roland TR808 and other bits and bobs and recorded into live.So have a listen and enjoy the Melbourne take on footwork and juke.I’d also like to thanks Amanda Mussi for the awesome cover art.Check out her work […]
Sometime its fun to mess around with the machines and just make some noise Noisy acid business from the SH101 and Exfade modded 606 Reverb from boss rrv-10 Drum grit using the micropunk robot as a filter Its free to download too Enjoy Ssshhh the Ex is here by DyLABs
I recently received a Bitchin’ Sync box made by Bryan Benting. This is a great little din sync clock box. Basically it takes clock pulse or din sync and split it to the other din sync ports. It has 6 din sync sockets which is the same number of din sync clock driven gear that […]
I’ve got a new EP out on Devilbeat Records. The EP is called M.U.S.E. The name and the 3 tracks are a homage of sorts to the old F.U.S.E. tracks from Plus 8 from back in the dark. Long dark twisted acid and lots of analogue goodness. You can grab a copy on iTunes and […]
I’ve got a new track out on Council House Recordings Acid Sampler. I’m really happy to get a track out on their label. They’re putting out some great old school acid house and techno, and they share my love of the analogue machines. The track is called Acid Council and the release clip is below. […]
Here is a hardware live set/ jam I did about a month ago which you can grab and download.This set also featured on FNOOB.com luvtonez show on the 23rd September 2011 so a big thanks to bathsh3ba for playing my set. Live 808 pc2 sh101 by DyLABs Its a totally live jam, no pre written […]
I’m playing a live set at Racket 11 this week. I will be playing 1 years worth of acid patterns from the acid pattern group – accompanied by some exfade 606 and stock 707 beats. Event details are on facebookThursday the 2nd of June, from 7 until 1 at Miss Libertine in the city. Thanks […]
This is a Roland TR-808 backplate image I have reworked.The purpose is to remind me what connections go where. It has been reversed so it can sit behind the TR-808 facing the player and be read correctly. Feel free to download and print out it for yourself.The linked image should be big enough to resize […]
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while and thats sample some of the sounds from my Roland TB-303 Devilfish. I finally got around to sampling it the other day and I have created a new sample pack I’ve just uploaded called Sounds of the Devilfish. These sample demonstrate a little of […]
I recently got my Roland TR-606 back from exfade after some serious modifications.Each sound has a range of mods to it , whilst still being the basic Roland TR-606.I’m pretty happy with the mods and the kick drum is a beast with the long decay.The 606 itself is a bad way though so it looks […]
2011 is here so lets make some acid. The January’s Acid Pattern is from Coldfuture (http://soundcloud.com/coldfuture) Frozen Over – January Acid from Coldfuture by Coldfuture Frozen Over – January Acid from Coldfuture by Coldfuture You can grab the pattern data from here The pattern can then be programmed into your tb303 or x0x box to […]
This is from the tinyloops website, I picked it up via http://www.dinsync.info/ blog How to programme, play a Roland TB303 in track and pattern mode. Nicely broken down into steps, all clearly explained with picture. http://www.tinyloops.com/tb303/pattern_write.html I did a basic video of how to program a TB303 which covers some of this material but not […]
So I finally bought a Roland TR-808 drum machine. The TR-808 is got was modified by Robin Whittle , the same guy who does the devilfish mods on the tb303. Some of the mods such as the trigger in may not be by Robin. You can see the 808 and its mods below. I look […]
I have resampled my TR-707 and this time it is quite an extensive lot of samples. These have been recorded at 24 bit 48khz. Each of the drum sounds were sampled as a loop at 30BPM, and as one hits without accent, with accent one and with accent two on. There is also snare loops […]
I have uploaded my TR-606 sample set to my bandcamp page You can download the samples here. Enjoy
This video shows how to program irregular length patterns on a tb303The usual pattern length in 16 steps but in this video I show how to program a 4 step pattern, a 2 step pattern , a 5 step pattern and 7 step pattern.The video also demonstrates that a tb303 never really deletes pattern note […]
I have finally gotten around to sending my roland TR-606 off to Al at exfade to get modified. So before I send it off I have sampled each drum hit at full volume with accent on but set to zero and recorded from zero accent to full accent over a number of hits. Each sample […]
I just got my first new (second-hand) synth for a long while, picked this up on ebay, it needs a little bit of work on some of the keys, but apart from that all seems to work fine.Its a Casio CZ-5000.It uses phase distortion as its sound source. It has not filters but from the […]
My latest purchase has been the analogue renaissance ts-303 acid screamer distortion and overdrive pedalYou can find details of it on the analogue renaissance site.Basically it adds distortion but has the ability to keep the dynamics of the tracks thats being distorted, which is great for acid tracks and drums and any other type of […]