Author Archives: jjob

About jjob

I'm a technologist and a music producer. I make sound, write code and build things with electronics and microcontrollers.

Modular Synthesis 101 – Part 1

This is my first post in a planned series on modular synthesis. Over the course of the series I hope to provide an introduction to the basics of modular synthesizers and take a look at some of the specific modules … Continue reading

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Ableton Live 9 And Push Controller

The wait will be over soon, or soonish. A week after a leaked video showing features of Live 9 we have an official announcement of Live 9 from Ableton. New features include: Record automation into session view clips (finally!) Curved … Continue reading

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A Trio Of Tracks

Keeping with the theme of threes, I just put up three new tracks on Soundcloud that I recorded this summer. I figured as fall is arriving here already it was time to get them out. Brane Space and Something Familiar … Continue reading

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Three New Modules & A Demo

Today I received a Synthesis Technology E350 morphing Terrarium, a MakeNoise Optomoix Low Pass gate and a Rebel Technology Στοιχεῖα (Stoicheia, or Elements) dual Euclidean Sequencer. I am in modular heaven. Here is a moody patch I just recorded making … Continue reading

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A Cat, A Synthesizer & Outer Space (and a couple modular patches)

I’m not sure of the origin of the meme but anyone that delves into the world of synthesis online will eventually come face to face with the slightly bizarre phenomena of photos of cats and synthesizers. I am most aware … Continue reading

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Pocari Sweat – Live Analog Studio Synth Jam

A foreboding banger for a late, hot night with lots of reverb curtesy of my new Strymon Blue Sky Reverberator pedal. Pocari Sweat by Jason Job Tiptop Audio drum modules. Roland HS-60 doing a big washy pad with plenty of … Continue reading

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How To Invert A Modular Synth Signal Using Boolean Logic With An Intellijel Plog

Sometimes with a modular system made up of modules from different manufacturers, or when integrating with other external analogue gear, it is necessary to invert a signal to get your modules speaking to each other in the desired way. Other … Continue reading

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And… I’m Back – Juvinated – Live Analog Studio Synth Jam

The last few months have been like a dream; a very bad dream of a long slow motion car crash where you are in the passenger seat and can see the accident coming and have time to tell the driver … Continue reading

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Updating An sqlite CoreData Backing Store On iOS

Something that has unpleasantly surprised many an iOS developer is that to update the data in an sqlite database that is the backing store for CoreData you need to do more than just make a new release of your app … Continue reading

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Handy Scripts For Localizing iOS XIB Files

Recently I have been working on more and more iOS projects that require localization. One of the things that I find needs to be done fairly often while implementing localized XIB files is to extract all the strings from your … Continue reading

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