I must thank Polarity, the lovely German chap who runs both a YouTube channel and Patreon dedicated to Bitwig, this patch is freely available from by the way, so you can download it and play with it. It

One of the best ways to explore and learn VCV rack, is to play around with patches available online or in this case, one I’ve downloaded via a Patreon membership that I have with Saturata Modular. Tweak

This video is a guide to MiRack or at least a particular patch comprising of several modules. I’m playing around with my microphone setup, so apologies if the balance in this one might be a little off.

This video is a guide to MiRack or at least a particular patch comprising of several modules. I’m playing around with my microphone setup, so apologies if the balance in this one might be a little off.

Another iPad based modular patch which is nice and chill. Uploaded using 3Speak Mobile App ▶️ 3Speak

I’ve just uploaded a bunch of recordings to Samply from tonight’s modular synth experimentation with MiRack on the iPad. I’ll improve these particular posts a lot more as I create more of them. There is

Spent the morning cleaning the house whilst my wife was at work, she occasionally does Saturdays but not often. Then went over to Cobbs farm shop to buy some meats for the week. It’s a big shop, selling

Let’s do #jamuary because that’s a big thing on YouTube, are we doing it here on 3Speak? In this electronic jam, I’m using Hammerhead for my drum machine, Lattice to drive it through MIDI and some programming

Testing out a new plugin for sequencing drums, which turns out to be very playable and experimental, with endless experimentation to be enjoyed. Uploaded using 3Speak Mobile App ▶️ 3Speak

This video explains how Fugue Machine Rubato, a MIDI sequencer plugin works. It’s simple in some ways but I do need to learn more about the advanced features that I struggled to get working. Uploaded using

This year I’m going to return to writing about the music plugins I enjoy working with on my iPad, a type of app/plugin called AUv3 which is based on the AU standard that exists for the Mac, commonly used

Over the weekend we visited on of our favourite National Trust properties that’s not far from where we live. The weather was terrible, so we dived inside for cake and a tea for two followed by a walk around

Today being a workday meant that I didn’t get a heck of a lot of movement into my day. Though we did go for a walk around the village this evening which tends to be quite a dark one. Very little streetlight,

We walked from our village to the next yesterday. They’re not far apart but there is space in between, a set of meadows and a high ridge. You’ve probably seen one of these views before where we can see

Originally posted on Substack to document my frequent sonic experiments with music technology. The main plugin here is Fugue Machine Rubato which is nothing short of amazing for constructing MIDI sequences.

Happy New Year everyone. Earlier today I wanted to see what happens when asking Google about curation on Hive and the AI answer it gave me, I thought was pretty

2026 is here and if I’ve not wished you a Happy New Year yet, well I’m hoping it’s a great one for you and everyone. I’m going to be boosting my YouTube efforts this year and Substack. I recorded this

On a walk earlier this week I spotted this crazy boat. For sale it says! You kidding me?! It’s basically a shed on a boat. There is a stretch of the River Thames just beyond Reading that’s very scruffy,

🏋305.0 kcal @nicklewis just finished a 6.13km walk, that lasted for 89 minutes. This walk helped nicklewis burn 305.0 calories. Description from Strava: Just completed a long walk along the Thames, the

NOTE: I don’t know why the video turned upside down! A bug in 3Speak??? I love creating my own music but it’s also interesting to study classical pieces and give them a modern synthy twist as it were.