Wow 4 years already! That’s flown by. I’ve had fun here and have met people thanks to this platform. I’m looking forward to the next four years here. There are so many people I’d like to thank… but I’m

Hello my lovely Hivian people and a quick update from me to say that this community will spring back into action more again in January with perhaps a post or two between now and then. There is certainly

The Festival of Light is a parade of illuminated lanterns that takes place every December in Newbury, Berkshire.

We are currently experiencing issues posting images on @strava2hive...Please bear with us @nicklewis just finished a 2.25km walk, that lasted for 28 minutes. This walk helped nicklewis burn 110.0 calories.

Recently I’ve been finding things quite challenging mainly in terms of work. Truth be told, I’m not exactly happy with where I’m working and something has got to change in the New Year. Yes it’s time to

@nicklewis just finished a 0.0km ride, that lasted for 9 minutes. This ride helped nicklewis burn 30.0 calories. Description from Strava: Part 1 of 3 - each of the machines recorded a separate report when

@nicklewis just finished a 0.62km walk, that lasted for 13 minutes. This walk helped nicklewis burn 71.0 calories. Description from Strava: The machines at our gym now sync with fitness watches, Apple

Back in the spring of 2025 My brother messaged me over the weekend “Ok mate, long story, going to make it short…are you up some point in the summer to join me and dad and maybe others on a pilgrimage of

Happy Sunday folks and in today’s post, I’m sharing this great video on how you can use Ableton to create ambient chords for ambient music. Each cycle of notes always sounds different enough to produce

ZW Buckley runs a fantastic channel and I’ve learnt a lot from this chap over time. I have to say this video opened my mind up to a whole load of ideas and that I’ve been using this method - sort of. Not

Adding a new plugin to the AUv3 Guide and it’s called Transit 2, developed by Baby Audio, you can get it from here: Currently £9.99 and I’ll pick it up fairly soon and will record some of my own videos

Welcome back to the AUv3 Guide that I started about a year ago with the aim of documenting/curating these fantastic IOS plugins for iPhone and iPad. Developers have continued to release these excelent

You’ll get to see Willow quite a lot in my posts over the coming weeks, months, years. We lost our last cat recently to old age and just couldn’t face life without one. So we went to the local rescue centre

I've been thinking about this project quite a lot over the last few weeks and whether it's even going to work in the longer term as a sound/sample library and I am not sure that my passion for that idea

I was hoping to put together some new stuff this week but haven’t had the chance just yet. I’ve decided to do a bit of s recap instead. Gathering together some favourite videos from recent posts. This

A little update on our cat, she’s gradually settling in, still rather shy but gradually exploring the house bit by bit. We’ve a camera in the kitchen that has proven great for keeping an eye on Willow,

Learning a new programming language can be a lot of fun, especially for sound design and music.

Admiring our Chrysanthemums as we set off on a walk this afternoon, these were last year’s flowers that died off and were probably baked over the summer, as these pots haven’t been tended to all that much.

Their tracks still sound impressive today as they did in the 90s when they first came out, which was a long time ago now. How scary is that?! I’m going to update these posts later I’ve got ideas for the

I’m away for a couple of days so leaving this on auto-pilot a little bit for a few days. Following on from yesterday, I was talking about Tracklib and wanted to share some of my favourite tracks from there