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2026 35

  1. Waldorf Crema, Akai/Behringer open source
  2. Fall 2026 new stuff is here already
  3. Fall 2026 new stuff?
  4. Free Yamaha DJX MIDI songs
  5. DJX capture: Status
  6. Capturing Yamaha DJX styles
  7. Yamaha DJX in the house
  8. Pre-review: Yamaha PSR-SX620
  9. In praise of vibe
  10. Could this be it?
  11. Trim construction kit with Ableton Live
  12. Add a construction kit to EP-40 Riddim
  13. Get yer EP-40 Riddim PDFs
  14. AN200 patterns converted to Seqtrak
  15. Yamaha AN-200: Crate digging
  16. SEQTRAK MIDI controller power
  17. SEQTRAK as sound module: Connections
  18. Comparison: SEQTRAK, EP-40 Riddim, Volca Sample
  19. Review: Yamaha Seqtrak
  20. Review: HP OmniDesk AMD Ryzen 5
  21. Pop demo styles for Yamaha
  22. Anavi Macropad8 QMK MIDI code
  23. EP-40 Riddim: Jammin’ (1)
  24. TE Riddim and Ting outta the box
  25. TE and Alto Music: Success!
  26. Yamaha PSR-I510 and PSR-I610 keyboards
  27. NAMM 2026: For those who wait
  28. NAMM 2026: Long boards
  29. NAMM 2026: More little things
  30. NAMM 2026: Hunting the snark
  31. NAMM 2026: More new products
  32. NAMM 2026: PSR-E483 and PSR-E583 announcement
  33. NAMM 2026: Yamaha PSR-E483 and PSR-E583, updates
  34. NAMM 2026: Tis the season
  35. Korg Volca Sample riddim?

2025 49

  1. Ho, ho, ho, NAMM 2026
  2. Roland Go:Keys mini-review
  3. Medeli profile
  4. SAM2695, A50 and NSX-39 thoughts
  5. M5Stack U187 General MIDI module
  6. Sound test: Yamaha A50 vs. SAM2695
  7. M5Stack U187 MIDI in the house
  8. Gettin’ the itch to chop
  9. Yamaha MODX M6 snap review
  10. Yamaha MODX M waveforms vs. MODX
  11. Yamaha MODX M update (v1.10)
  12. Yamaha announce MODX M synthesizers
  13. Yamaha MODX M — Witching Hour?
  14. Yamaha swallows Steinberg hardware
  15. Yamaha Extrack app now in the USA
  16. Review: TalentCell 12V battery pack
  17. Yamaha Extrack playing partner
  18. Notating with deCoda and Sibelius
  19. Yamaha CE20 FM synthesizer (RIP?)
  20. Bored ape: Go:keys revisited
  21. Reface DX acoustic instruments for ya
  22. Everybody likes new stuff
  23. Adafruit Feather: Megavoice key switching
  24. MIDI Event Processor — Round 2
  25. AdaFruit Feather: MIDI Event Processor
  26. Steinberg Etude vs. CSP-170: Quick demo
  27. Free stuff from Steinberg
  28. Yamaha Montage M OS 3.0 update
  29. Yamaha P-525: Mini review
  30. Review: Behringer Dual-Phase
  31. Smart Pianist: Sheet music tutorial
  32. Smart Pianist: Re-image a song with style
  33. Yamaha Torch T01 digital piano
  34. Smart Pianist Audio-to-score tutorial
  35. Smart Pianist MIDI files and SysEx
  36. Smart Pianist, CSP and ChordPro
  37. Smart Pianist: MIDI song tutorial
  38. The quest for Backing Conductor
  39. NAMM 2025: ROLI discover 49 keys!
  40. NAMM 2025: NI free stuff
  41. NAMM 2025: ROLI teaser
  42. NAMM 2025: Wait, there’s more!
  43. NAMM 2025: Korg miniKORG 700Sm
  44. NAMM 2025: Viscount Legend ONE
  45. NAMM 2025: Roland V-STAGE
  46. NAMM 2025: Yamaha updates
  47. NAMM 2025: Korg New KRONOS
  48. More NAMM 2025 products and speculation
  49. NAMM 2025: More little things to come

2024 40

  1. NAMM 2025: Little things
  2. Yamaha NAMM 2025 pre-show announcements
  3. Want vs. need: Yamaha Seqtrak
  4. Review: Donner MOD Square II for keyboards
  5. Behringer UV300 pedal teardown
  6. October 8th — How’d that turn out?
  7. Floobydust: September 2024
  8. Yamaha stage keyboards: What’s next?
  9. Yamaha PSR-SX920 new voices
  10. New PSR-SX720 and PSR-SX920 models
  11. Roasted and toasted
  12. Whither PSR Tutorial Forum?
  13. SampleRobot, again
  14. 1010Music tangerine: Sampling electric piano
  15. First gig: 1010Music tangerine
  16. MODX EP umph!
  17. A smorgasbord of electric pianos
  18. 1010Music tangerine: A rough edge here and there
  19. Peeling a juicy tangerine
  20. First take: 1010Music tangerine
  21. Yamaha announce the Clavinova CLP-800 series
  22. Potential Yamaha P-525 gotcha!
  23. Chord progressions for Yamaha Chord Looper
  24. Yamaha Montage M internals: First look
  25. Arturia AstroLab: Yes, I played one!
  26. Arturia AstroLab announced
  27. Ain’t no April Fool: piano evoce ß
  28. Anavi Macropad8 for MIDI control
  29. A few words about my new PSR/Genos styles
  30. Free Performance Styles for PSR/Genos
  31. Yamaha Reface DX in the house
  32. More DX/FM learning resources
  33. Reface DX: No static at all
  34. NAMM 2024: KORG Nu:tekt NTS-1 MkII and NTS-3 kaoss pad
  35. NAMM 2024: Briefs
  36. NAMM 2024: KORG-fest
  37. Yamaha SEQTRAK: Quick reaction
  38. NAMM 2024: Yamaha SEQTRAK Ideastation
  39. NAMM 2024: In sight
  40. New year, new piano

2023 97

  1. Genos2: Behind the scenes video
  2. Genos2 R&B styles converted for Genos1
  3. Yamaha CSP-170 in the house!
  4. Genos2: ¿Si o No?
  5. Yamaha Genos2: New voices
  6. Genos 2 is here
  7. Genos2 pre-game
  8. Kaiju news (November 2023)
  9. Patents: GEX, InfiniQ, DX7
  10. Montage M8x review: Yes, I played one!
  11. Review: KApro London Symphonic Orchestra
  12. Montage M8x: Key notes
  13. Montage M: Fan on, fan off
  14. Montage M APs and EPs
  15. Montage (M)usings
  16. Yamaha Montage M8x: Initial take
  17. Happy birthday, Montage M!
  18. Montage M: It’s official
  19. Montage M (emulated)
  20. Montage M: More early info?
  21. Yamaha P-525 digital piano announced
  22. The fair, the Princess and the unicorn
  23. The other unicorn in the room
  24. Hammond M-solo announced
  25. Isn’t this awkward?
  26. KORG Keystage MIDI 2.0
  27. Ridin’ the E-bus
  28. Yamaha synthesizer sneak peek
  29. Yamaha NU1XA upright hybrid
  30. “M” for multi-core? Multi-touch?
  31. Random weekend thoughts
  32. Yamaha P-225 review: It’s not for me
  33. Montage M preseason
  34. Yamaha P-525 on the way
  35. Patience is a virtue
  36. Yamaha Montage M6, M7, M8X
  37. Field trip: N1X and CLP-785
  38. Yamaha VRM technology
  39. Yamaha multi-touch patents
  40. Floobydust (August 2023)
  41. Yamaha VRM vs. VRM Lite
  42. MODX: Character Pianos
  43. Montage: Thank you for playing!
  44. Korg Nautilus AT — Upgrade!
  45. Yamaha CSP Gen 2 digital pianos
  46. Yamaha P-145 and P-225 digital pianos
  47. Ludlow, VT (7/10/2023)
  48. MODX: Rotary speaker (part 5)
  49. Kawai MP11: Digital electronics
  50. Digital piano: Tear the roof off
  51. Yamaha DGX-670: Do you love me?
  52. MODX: Overdrive slight return (part 4)
  53. Yamaha Stagepas 100/100BTR
  54. Yamaha Piaggero NP-15 and NP-35
  55. Yamaha P-515: I played one
  56. Yamaha keyboards: Which amp (sim) is that?
  57. MODX: Drawbar overdrive (part 3)
  58. MODX: Drawbar waveforms (part 2)
  59. Arturia Keylab Essential mk3
  60. MODX: Drawbar control (part 1)
  61. Yamaha CK88: Yes, I played one
  62. Just because…
  63. Korg NTS-2: Initial review
  64. NAMM 2023: Little things
  65. NAMM 2023: Pickin’ up the pieces
  66. NAMM 2023: IK AXE I/O ONE
  67. NAMM 2023: Round-up
  68. NAMM 2023: Hammond XK-4
  69. NAMM 2023: Small stuff
  70. AWM, AN and VL in one Yamaha synth
  71. New montage pictured!
  72. Yamaha MX vs. CK
  73. Yamaha CK random bits
  74. Yamaha CK61™ and CK88™
  75. CK: It’s almost here
  76. CK: Scraps from the dustbin
  77. Review: Akai LPK25 Mk2
  78. NAMM 2023: Roland go uptown
  79. Inside Akai LPK25 Mk2
  80. NAMM 2023: Korg want to sell you (a) kit
  81. NAMM 2023: Roland SH-4D
  82. NAMM 2023: Mini-bites
  83. Nord Stage 4 preview
  84. Flight tracking: Lake Huron incident
  85. In the works: Kiviak WoFi
  86. NAMM 2023: Buchla LEM218v3
  87. NAMM 2023: Korg EK-50U and EK-50CSA
  88. NAMM 2023: Korg HD-S and TR-S Nu:tekt
  89. NAMM 2023: Yamaha AG08
  90. NAMM 2023: Roland FP-E50 piano
  91. Review: ROLI Lightpad M
  92. NAMM 2023: Yamaha STAGEPAS 200
  93. Gestalt: ROLI Lightpad M
  94. A cheapster for MPE
  95. Artiphon Orba MPE
  96. Review: KMI QuNexus
  97. Synthesizer heaven

2022 61

  1. God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen (ChordPro)
  2. ChordPro auto-accompaniment
  3. Adding zones to Keylab Essential with EPP
  4. Audio Modeling: Camelot and SWAM Flute
  5. V3 Sound YAMMEX: Progress report
  6. New Fall 2022 Products
  7. In the house: V3 Sound YAMMEX XXL
  8. Review: Korg Module General 128
  9. Yamaha MODX: Zone Master
  10. “P” is for “piano”: Yamaha P-S500 digital piano
  11. Out Of The Shadows
  12. Mid-September new products
  13. What if CS and SK had a baby?
  14. Akai MPK Mini beauty products
  15. MODX+: Glad that’s over!
  16. Where to put AN-X™?
  17. Akai MPK Mini Play: GM/GS MIDI mod
  18. Yamaha MODX+ madness
  19. Is MODX+ on the way?
  20. Akai MPK Mini Play mod: MIDI IN success
  21. Akai MPK Mini Play: MIDI over USB implementation
  22. Akai MPK Mini Play MIDI mod (2)
  23. Akai MPK Mini Play MIDI mod (1)
  24. Inside Akai MPK Mini Play (mk1)
  25. Review: Akai MPK Mini Play (Mk1)
  26. 2019 market data (NAMM)
  27. You spin me right round
  28. STEP EDIT → Chord Looper
  29. Yamaha YC series: Tonewheels
  30. Guess again: AN-X ™
  31. Review: Arturia Keylab Essential
  32. New toys: Roland E-X50 and Moog Mavis
  33. Yamaha PSS-A50 stereo mod
  34. NAMM 2022: Your guess is as good as mine
  35. SDR flight tracking with ADS-B
  36. NAMM 2020: Casio sneak peek
  37. Roland and Korg make candy
  38. CT-S1000V: Tremolo EP
  39. RTL-SDR: Earth ground are easy
  40. Casio CT-S1000V: Free registration banks
  41. Casio CT-S1000V: Master EQ
  42. Casio CT-S1000V: More tips
  43. Casio CT-S1000V: Drawbar organ tones
  44. Casio CT-S1000V: About them effects
  45. Casio Lyric Creator: Pronunciation
  46. Casio Lyric Creator: First experience
  47. Casio singing synthesis in pictures
  48. Casio CT-S1000V: Quick tips
  49. Casio CT-S1000V: Observations
  50. Casio CT-S1000V: First impressions
  51. Ye olde Yamaha Dance Kit
  52. Casio speech synthesis technology
  53. Yamaha PSR-E473 and PSR-EW425
  54. New Casio portable keyboards
  55. Akai MPK mini play mk3
  56. Recent Casio patents (AiR/AiX)
  57. Casio CT-S1000V, anyone?
  58. ChordPro auto-accompaniment: Uses
  59. ChordPro auto-accompaniment: Implementation notes
  60. Roland Micro Cube GX speaker size
  61. Hidden arranger smarts: file system SysEx

2021 51

  1. Wired USB iPad rig
  2. ChordPro to MIDI accompaniment: Demo
  3. ChordPro auto-accompaniment: MIDI messages
  4. ChordPro for Yamaha accompaniment
  5. Review: The Beatles: Get Back
  6. Black is back: Software sales
  7. Wire Less: Part 3, Boss EV-1-WL wireless MIDI expression pedal
  8. Critique: Genos™ drawbar organ
  9. SampleTank IOS and Miroslav vs. Korg Module Pro
  10. Korg Module Pro for church
  11. Review: Future Kit FK651 stereo simulator
  12. Review: Synthrotek Dev Delay
  13. Steinberg WaveLab Cast bundle
  14. Wire Less: Part 2, Belkin RockStar™
  15. Random answer day (1)
  16. Wire Less: Part 1, Korg Microkey Air 49
  17. PSS chorus: A dusty look back
  18. PSS-A50 MIDI mod
  19. PSR-E473 speculation
  20. Review: Mystic Circuits 0HP Envelope
  21. Review: Mystic Circuits 0ttenuator
  22. Yamaha PSS-A50: Look inside
  23. PSS-A50: Power to the people
  24. Yamaha PSS-A50 Motion Effects
  25. Yamaha PSS-A50 MIDI limitations
  26. Yamaha PSS-A50 MIDI notes
  27. Summer NAMM 2021
  28. Review: Yamaha PSS-A50
  29. Free DJX-II styles: Version 2
  30. Modal Skulpt SE: Review
  31. littleBits for audio mods?
  32. PSS modding: A few ideas
  33. Combo organ: Top octave emulation
  34. Review: zplane deCoda
  35. Combo organ: Top octave generator
  36. Arpeggio to style conversion
  37. Combo organ: Reface YC
  38. Combo organ: Montage, MODX, Genos
  39. Customizing the Sonogenic voice editor
  40. Combo organ tone generation
  41. Curtis Electromusic Specialties
  42. E-mu Systems and SSM ICs
  43. SN76477 Complex Sound Generator
  44. RPi 4 tuning: The code
  45. ARM Cortex-A72 tuning: Memory access
  46. Linux clock and temperature: An interlude
  47. ARM Cortex-A72 tuning: Branch mispredictions
  48. Cortex-A72 tuning: Data access
  49. ARM Cortex-A72 tuning: IPC
  50. Winter NAMM 2021: Do you believe?
  51. ARM Cortex-A72 execution and load/store

2020 57

  1. ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing
  2. A short trip through ARM cores
  3. Performance events on Raspberry Pi 4: Tips
  4. Raspberry Pi 4 ARM Cortex-A72 processor
  5. Raspberry Pi 4 mini-review
  6. RTL SDR Blog V3 HF reception
  7. RTL SDR Blog V3 Radio
  8. Nooelec Nano 2+ Software Defined Radio
  9. Review: Roland Micro Cube GX for keyboard
  10. COVID-19 Washington State August 14, 2020
  11. Keystep for littleBits
  12. Arturia Keystep CV
  13. Arturia Keystep tear-down and cleaning
  14. littleBits envelope generator
  15. littleBits Control Signals
  16. COVID-19: Washington State July 12
  17. Best things in life are free
  18. Mini review: Korg Module
  19. COVID-19: Washington State June 24
  20. What did you do in self-isolation?
  21. COVID-19: Washington June 6
  22. COVID-19: Washington State May 26
  23. COVID-19: Washington State May 16
  24. COVID-19: Washington State May 8
  25. COVID-19: Washington State May 1
  26. COVID-19: Washington State April 21
  27. COVID-19: Genetic tests
  28. COVID-19: Washington State April 15
  29. COVID-19: Washington State April 8
  30. COVID-19: Know Your Foe
  31. COVID-19: Washington April 6
  32. COVID-19 Numeracy: Round-up
  33. COVID-19 Numeracy: Seattle scene
  34. COVID-19 Numeracy: Epidemiologic Testing
  35. COVID-19 Numeracy: More NYT
  36. COVID-19 Numeracy: Geography
  37. COVID-19 Numeracy: New York City
  38. COVID-19 Numeracy: Comparability
  39. COVID-19 Numeracy: Charts
  40. COVID-19 Numeracy: Time
  41. COVID-19 Numeracy: Testing
  42. COVID-19 Numeracy: NYT curve flattening by country
  43. COVID-19: KPI
  44. Back In The Day
  45. Sonogenic voice editor
  46. Korg NTS-1 Assembled
  47. Korg NTS-1: First look
  48. Sonogenic UI MIDI flow
  49. SHS-500 Sonogenic MIDI
  50. YC61 Developer’s Comments
  51. Winter NAMM 2020 prequel
  52. Sonogenic: General MIDI
  53. Yamaha YC61 stage organ
  54. Korg unpops the NAMM 2020 cork
  55. SHS-500: Snap review
  56. Let’s get small!
  57. Korg Wavestate leak?

2019 48

  1. Early wave table and FM synthesis
  2. Remie: A Christmas Story
  3. Musing about Montage VA
  4. SHS-300: The PSS keytar?
  5. Modding the PSS series
  6. SHS-500 Sonogenic voices
  7. Inside Yamaha PSS-E30 Remie
  8. Review: Yamaha PSS-E30 Remie
  9. Yamaha Genos V2.0 Update
  10. Yamaha MODX: Inside stuff
  11. Just like starting over
  12. Update about the updates
  13. Yamaha Montage: Internals revisited
  14. Yamaha Genos, Montage, sample compression
  15. Yamaha Genos: Tone generation
  16. Yamaha Genos: Main CPU
  17. Another tiny toy from Yamaha: SHS-300
  18. Where in the world?
  19. Yamaha Genos update v1.4
  20. MODX, Ratt, guitar tone
  21. Superbooth 2019
  22. Genos sound alike voices on MODX
  23. Genos/PSR organ registrations
  24. Yamaha MODX gospel organ
  25. “Joy, beauty, confidence, and discovery”
  26. Pacific Northwest Vintage Computer Festival
  27. PSR-EW410: Tour of its electronics
  28. Sampleson Reed200 and Markus88
  29. Winter NAMM 2019: Random Youtube videos
  30. Yamaha SHS-500 follow-up
  31. Yamaha piano voice programming
  32. Yamaha SHS-500 Sonogenic (pre-review)
  33. Winter NAMM 2019: Yamaha Sonogenic
  34. Winter NAMM 2019: You Komplete me
  35. Winter NAMM 2019: Super fly
  36. Winter NAMM 2019: Today’s catch
  37. Winter NAMM 2019: Make it redder
  38. Spectral (component) modeling
  39. Winter NAMM 2019: Short bits
  40. Winter NAMM 2019: Akai Pro Force
  41. Winter NAMM 2019: Korg get spiffed
  42. Yamaha CP73 and CP88: Da manuals
  43. Winter NAMM 2019: Yamaha CP73 and CP88
  44. Winter NAMM 2019: Korg and more
  45. Winter NAMM 2019: Interfaces
  46. Noted in passing
  47. Genos to 60 in 4 seconds
  48. Zoom Q2n-4K: Wow!

2018 74

  1. Crumar D9U: Electro 2 Sketch (Part 5)
  2. Crumar D9U: Testing MIDI (Part 4)
  3. Crumar D9U: What went wrong? (Day 3)
  4. Crumar D9U: Slip slidin’ (day 2)
  5. Crumar D9U: Day one
  6. Crumar D9U in the house!
  7. MODX: Quick thoughts
  8. MULTI FX: It’s for organ, too!
  9. MODX: Sampling Genos pipe organ
  10. MODX: Going to the library
  11. Sample Robot: Quick feedback
  12. MODX: Get started with Sample Robot
  13. MODX: Creating a new waveform
  14. MODX: Select Performance from MMS
  15. Yamaha MODX: Creating a split
  16. Easy MODX Super Knob example
  17. MODX Performance: Latin Flutist
  18. Paul Allen: 1953-2018
  19. MODX Theatre Orchestra
  20. Akai Professional MPK Mini Play
  21. MODX after the first gig
  22. Blazin’
  23. And we’re off!
  24. Relationship: Committed
  25. Mobile Music Sequencer mixer
  26. Getting started with style files
  27. MMS: Pack voices and drum kits
  28. Yamaha MODX Version 1.10 Update
  29. MODX aftermath
  30. Yamaha MODX announcement
  31. Yamaha MODX audio demos
  32. Yamaha MODX: A few more details
  33. Roland Drops a Keytar
  34. Yamaha MODX pictures
  35. Korg EK-50: Meh
  36. Yamaha MODX event?
  37. Yamaha MODX vs. Montage
  38. Do you question?
  39. Mobile Music Sequencer revisited
  40. Baby’s are cute!
  41. All is swell (SWL)
  42. MIDI TRS pin-out
  43. Yamaha VKB-100 redux
  44. Montage update v2.5
  45. Yamaha QY-70 anatomy
  46. Insertion effects for MIDI songs
  47. Summer snoozer?
  48. Time stretching applied to rotary speaker sound
  49. Boston Music Expo 2018
  50. Which guitar is which?
  51. Single coil, double coil
  52. Review: Business class air service
  53. Audio Style file format
  54. Back in the U.S.
  55. Code: Display Genos UVF voice info
  56. Genos: Needed DSP improvements
  57. Genos master compressor
  58. Genos voice editing: Blending the split point
  59. Genos voice editing: An example
  60. Genos voice editing: XML Notepad
  61. Genos voice editing: YEM
  62. NAMM 2018: Montage 2.0
  63. NAMM 2018: And now Yamaha
  64. NAMM 2018: Spin me ’round
  65. NAMM 2018: Rainin’ tonewheels
  66. NAMM 2018: Ain’t kiddin’ around
  67. NAMM 2018: The ‘wheels roll out
  68. NAMM 2018: Today’s catch
  69. Winter NAMM 2018: More fun toys
  70. Winter NAMM 2018: Melo Audio MIDI Commander
  71. Right on the heels of Genos
  72. Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion
  73. CES 2018
  74. 100 percent Genos

2017 73

  1. A little Genos Christmas music
  2. Java note mapper (v0.1)
  3. NAMM 2018: Half Monty, Full Monty
  4. Pocket Miku (Thanks, David!)
  5. Genos: Hi-hat happiness
  6. A few after action thoughts
  7. Genos: First contact (snap review)
  8. Genos: Position and promotion
  9. First look at new Genos effects
  10. First glance at Genos voices
  11. Genos and the future of Montage
  12. Genos quick hits 1
  13. Genos has landed
  14. The future looks bright
  15. Creating a Mega Voice in YEM
  16. Genos news from Germany
  17. Genos: After the fireworks
  18. Genos internal memory: A speculation
  19. A few quick Genos links
  20. Genos genesis
  21. Genos teaser video four
  22. Yamaha Genos USA pricing
  23. Yamaha Reface YC on the go
  24. Take control of your music
  25. Genos teaser video three
  26. GENOS unverified image
  27. It’s a matter of timing
  28. Mega Voice in PSR/Tyros styles
  29. This is the place(ment)
  30. A hoax image?
  31. Genos is coming soon
  32. Flash dance?
  33. Inside Reface YC and CP
  34. Vocaloid keyboard announced
  35. Vox VX50KB keyboard amplifier
  36. September 1st goes to Korg
  37. Montage tidbits
  38. Reface MIDI pin-out
  39. Pocket Miku: Module review
  40. Yamaha CSP pianos: First take
  41. A jaunt into Cold War history
  42. Pocket Miku software resources
  43. Summer NAMM 2017: Two new toys
  44. Pocket Miku pictures
  45. Pocket Miku hardware resources
  46. Summer NAMM 2017 preview
  47. Yamaha NSX-1 resources
  48. Real Acoustic Sound
  49. LSI, LSI
  50. And your keytar can sing
  51. Roland GO:KEYS is GONE:KEYS
  52. Roland GO:KEYS – First impressions
  53. Ableton Live: 2 books, head2head
  54. Music Expo Boston 2017
  55. Out with the old…
  56. New Yamaha patents
  57. Another reason to stop smoking
  58. First glimpse: Yamaha MX88BK
  59. Less talk, more action
  60. An interesting bit of plumbing, that
  61. THAT Corporation
  62. Livings computers indeed
  63. Welcome CS teachers and students!
  64. Tuning up a littleBits oscillator
  65. The Arduino combo organ is back
  66. Add SPI to littleBits Arduino 3
  67. A tale of three keyboards
  68. Sing “Do Re Mi” using an Arduino SPI DAC
  69. NAMM 2017: Yudo Kami-OTO
  70. Preparing audio waveforms for Arduino PROGMEM
  71. Tip-toe through the tech
  72. Round and round they go
  73. Won’t be long, yeah!

2016 48

  1. All’s well …
  2. FreePlay style deconstructed
  3. Review: MIDIPLUS miniEngine USB
  4. The long view
  5. Rainy day ramblings
  6. Dr. Synth and the SC-33: An appreciation
  7. Motif styles for your arranger!
  8. Montage: The hardware platform
  9. Add SPI to littleBits Arduino 2
  10. Add SPI to the littleBits Arduino
  11. Beat Box at littleBits!
  12. Inside Reface DX and Reface CS
  13. Arduino lo-fi beat box
  14. Add a filter and envelope to the tone sequencer
  15. Audio via Arduino 16-bit PWM
  16. Aw, shucks.
  17. Connect a MIDI shield to littleBits Arduino
  18. littleBits Arduino MIDI interface
  19. MIDI sequencer: Testing your MIDI interface
  20. 5-pin MIDI IN/OUT for Arduino
  21. littleBits Arduino tone sequencer
  22. littleBits Arduino: More observations
  23. littleBits: First review
  24. Tenor to the max!
  25. Montage review: Yes, I’ve played one!
  26. Explicit Sax
  27. Montage: New waveforms
  28. We need “code-able” MIDI controllers!
  29. Inside the DGX digital pianos
  30. Tutorial: Soft synths on Linux and Raspberry Pi
  31. Qsynth and FluidSynth on Raspberry Pi: The basics
  32. USB audio for Raspberry Pi
  33. Raspberry Pi soft synthesizer: Get started
  34. Get started: Linux ALSA and JACK
  35. Get started with Raspbian Jessie and RPi2
  36. NAND flash data retention
  37. Montage wave memory
  38. Nord Stage 2 ex: Test Drive
  39. What you might have missed…
  40. A Montage of quick thoughts
  41. Yamaha Montage: It’s here
  42. Apple Music Memos: Snap Review
  43. Some other goodies to appear at NAMM 2016
  44. Dessert topping? Floor wax?
  45. So much better in hi-rez
  46. Through a gap in the curtain…
  47. Yamaha Montage: First (leaked) glimpse
  48. (Re)take the stage

2015 45

  1. Reface YC and DX teardowns
  2. New Yamaha workstation at NAMM 2016?
  3. Copy PSR DSP effects (part 4)
  4. Multi-effects for electric piano (Part 3)
  5. Editing and saving PSR effects (Part 2)
  6. PSR effects for electric piano (Part 1)
  7. The SWP70 tone generator
  8. SSP1 and SSP2: Designated hitter
  9. PSR-S770 and S970 internal architecture
  10. Sending performance data via audio
  11. Chord Tracker revealed
  12. Why not high-end x86?
  13. Innards of Krome and Kronos
  14. TC-Helicon Play Electric
  15. Clear the decks?
  16. Whither XG?
  17. DigiTech Trio needs a quick upgrade
  18. Reface CP: Yes, I played one!
  19. Serial memory and tone generation
  20. Scat voices the newest Yamaha arrangers
  21. XG effects: SYSTEM mode
  22. Arranger memory: One more time!
  23. Crunchin’ da drums
  24. Groovin’ in eight zones
  25. Performance styles for PSR-E443
  26. MOX interview: Follow up
  27. Yamaha MOX6: Retrospective
  28. Yamaha Reface (No, I haven’t played it)
  29. Free DJX-II styles/patterns for PSR/Tyros
  30. What’s in a name?
  31. Footloose and fancy free
  32. Triton Taktile: A few more thoughts
  33. Korg Triton Taktile: Snap Review
  34. Polyphonic Arduino synthesizer
  35. MidiVOX: An appreciation and review
  36. PERF tutorial part 3 is now on-line
  37. PERF tutorial part 2 now available
  38. RPi2: Work in progress 1
  39. Second generation RPi is here
  40. Make music with MMS on a PSR
  41. Scat voice expansion pack
  42. Sampling “scat”
  43. Vocaloid is not just for anime!
  44. A dive into some old Roland gear
  45. Send MIDI from USB-B to 5-pin

2014 33

  1. PSR-E443: Snap review
  2. Mining the Yamaha DJX II
  3. Prototino in progress
  4. DangerShield Drawbars
  5. MOX construction kits update: version 2
  6. SA and SA2: Is Motif up to the task?
  7. More new phrases for MMS
  8. Yamaha voice of the customer
  9. How to import new MIDI phrases into MMS
  10. MOX internal architecture
  11. Ancient weapons and tools
  12. Yamaha: The business
  13. MOX performance to PSR style (part 3)
  14. MOX performance to PSR style (part 2)
  15. MOX performance to PSR style (part 1)
  16. Smooth It Over
  17. Transferring QY70 style to PSR
  18. Giving DetroitBeat “Soul”
  19. 60sSuperGroup mash-up
  20. S950 audio style mash-up
  21. PSR/Tyros XG effects
  22. Sparkfun Danger Shield
  23. MMS as a tool
  24. Tyros 4 teardown
  25. Yamaha arranger product family
  26. A follow-up on the Yamaha SWP51
  27. What’s inside of a Yamaha arranger?
  28. Music gallery
  29. Mobile Music Sequencer is here
  30. Arrangers need respect!
  31. Way back in ’97…
  32. RPi MIDI bridge
  33. And now for something completely different

2013 20

  1. Topics in computer architecture
  2. VLSI systems course
  3. Wanna design a computer?
  4. Courseware is here
  5. Science!
  6. rpistat: RPi event monitoring tool
  7. Memory access time
  8. Memory hierarchy and performance events
  9. A sweet one-liner for histograms
  10. Perils of performance analysis on single core
  11. Faster matrix multiplication (part 2 of 2)
  12. Raspberry Pi performance counters (part 1)
  13. Performance events and Zen
  14. The fine print in the TRM
  15. Performance counter kernel module
  16. An introduction to performance tuning (and counters)
  17. Building a loadable kernel module
  18. ARM11 microarchitecture
  19. Raspberry Pi tips and tricks
  20. What’s this all about?