Next week I’ll finally order my Ableton Push 3 to complete my little desktop studio setup a bit. I set aside some money for it ages ago, then things happened (the gates of hell opened. Not really that

This has to be one of the most famous old streets in Dorset, if not much much further afield, for many it’s a little piece of Yorkshire. Cast your memory back to the year 1973 when the famous advert for

🚶38.0 kcal @nicklewis just finished a 0.82km walk, that lasted for 11 minutes. This walk helped nicklewis burn 38.0 calories. Description from Strava: Lunchtime stroll whilst at the office today, amazing

🚶136.0 kcal @nicklewis just finished a 3.05km walk, that lasted for 42 minutes. This walk helped nicklewis burn 136.0 calories. Description from Strava: Nothing special just our regular local walk but

There are somewhere in the region of 175 statues and public artworks that depict Queen Victoria across the country. The nearest one probably to where I live is in Reading just outside the fantastic piece

🚴24.0 kcal @nicklewis just finished a 2.14km ride, that lasted for 12 minutes. This ride helped nicklewis burn 24.0 calories. Description from Strava: Since falling over and hitting the floor hard at

For all of my fellow Brits, especially those living in Southern England within 40 miles of London or so; hasn't it been ridiculosuly hot this week? Though at the time of writing this, it is much cooler

In the above video I recorded a quick demonstration of this new feature and it’s brilliant. If you’ve not come across the app, check out their site, it’s as cheap as chips and brilliant for sampling but

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