hi-tech music

Synthesizers and hi-tech music have been one of my main interests since childhood. MIDI sequencing is something I would love to be able to spend more time on...

Here I will try to include some revisits to old articles, new tutorials, and maybe an observation or two... Explore!

		SY99 Disk Drive Replacement (added July 2004) When the disk drive in my Yamaha SY99 stopped working, I ordered a replacement drive from the Service Department. But installing the new drive was more than just a simple swap...

		FM Tutorial (work in progress) FM is a synthesis method that seems very different to the 'Oscillator, Filter, and Envelope'-based 'analogue' synthesis model. But this does not mean that it is difficult, merely that you need to learn a few new techniques...

		What Effects Really Do I've been asked many times for simple, direct explanations of what effects actually do to a sound. To save the effort of emailing every time, I'm compiling my thoughts into a short guide...

		So what type of music do I make? When I was in my main period of writing for 'Sound On Sound' magazine some years ago, I would get the occassional enquiry about the music I made. Well, I've done some work for TV, had some of my music played on Radio 3, done lots of corporate AV material, and made quite a bit of anonymous public domain music...

		Do I program synthesizers? Yes, I created hundreds of sounds for the Yamaha DX7. And I've continued this with the other synths that have passed through my hands. I'm still developing sounds all these years later. Maybe this is the place for an archive of 'Russsounds'...