Since today has been such a summery day, I decided to put something with an Afro beat together using the great Apple Loops pack that comes with Logic Pro and this is a work in pedicures but I’m very happy

There’s a theme evolving today involving the sea, travel, pools, reading books and composing some tunes. We shall literally be by the pool this afternoon with the return of what we call “Lido Season”.

Starting my new job today and of course there will be induction stuff to do before I really get into the meat of the job, as a full stack developer working with Ruby on Rails and the two React frameworks,

I’m not sure if I’ve posted this one before or not. I wanted to try out 3speak embeds in posts made using Ecency as there was an issue with the direct ratio. I think that’s now fixed with this update.

I’m just excited. Haha! I was going to just leave it at that and leave you mystified. Starting my new job on Wednesday at the music school, working on their apps, gives me a real sense of purpose. A lot

I recently bought Sessions, a versatile app available for both iOS and Mac. This means you can explore VST plugins or AUv3 on your mobile devices. While it’s not a full DAW, it’s more of a recording or

I’ve not been around on here much of late because life has been a bit rubbish for most of the year so far. I felt like I had nothing much better to say, no real value and felt rather disillusioned with

Last night I purchased B00GA by Hainbach and Audiothing, which has been out for a little while now and on my list of sound generators to get at some point. It is very cool, different to the usual plugins

This week has been an interesting one on a personal level, one minute fucking terrifying. Sorry for the F bomb but last Friday we thought we were on the brink of losiing someone close; he had been rushed

After a somewhat challenging week, yesterday was an oasis amongst the chaos because we celebrated a sixth birthday, mine from the day before and got to see in real life a broadcasting hero of mine, Monty

In one of the last updates for Logic Pro I was particularly excited to try out the new “players” that open up some new options for synth bass and keyboard styles. In this video we demonstrate what it’s

Welcome back to my music technology posts and sharing some ideas that I’ve come up with on the iPad and the brilliant apps, AUM, Super J8 and Euclidean sequencer. All of which are available on the app

Since finishing at my old company I’ve been busy doing a number of things to keep myself occupied, obviously finding new work is priority but I’ve a little bit of time to do my own thing. I’ve no meetings,

Hello my lovely people. I’m making a comeback here on Hive after being hardly around for a while. Hope you’re keeping well? The above photo was taken on our evening walk from our front door and out to

Hello everyone and I’m delighted to say that I’m resuming my #churchproject blog series and have been out photographing a few locations recently. Today though, I am sharing this quick post with you, to

Last year I attended a fantastic little festival in Sussex and I’m going back this year with the ModCaf crew, to run a workshop there on using electronic gear to make music. We will be bringing along an

Otoo, Beepstreets brilliant new groovebox I’ve been playing with this little beauty quite a bit this past week. Laying down some fairly random beats, then processing them in a way that reminds me of how

This is a quick post on the Alicante trip coming up in a few weeks time and that I am highly unlikely yo make it this year. I was all set on coming and on the verge of booking a hotel and all that stuff

The other morning 300 hive just landed in my wallet which was nice. I was initially puzzled. Oh you muppet! I converted 30HBD the other day and that ended up being a nice chunk of hive. So for each calendar

Hinton Ampner ------------- These photos were taken last weekend on a little road trip from home near Reading down into deepest Hampshire, where we stopped off