modemgirl

modemgirl has a new toy! last week i had an incredibly synchronistic run-in with a couple of old friends from cities far away, that ended up with me being in possession of a roland MC-307.

i’ve played around with digital sound production a little bit, using software + midi (using things like reason) but…. ugh. i work at a computer professionally, so the appeal of sitting in front of one when i get home is… minimal. (but not the good kind, like you want. ) that, combined with all the midi mapping and sound card latency and the hey hey hey let’s spend all our time trying to make things play nice, i’ve never really gotten anywhere working on music digitally.

last spring i purchased a “new” set of tech 12s which have been keeping me occupied for the last few months (sold my old ones in 2005 to go to burningman :p) – but what i really want to do is to write my own music.  so i decided once i paid off some debt i would  make my first timid steps into the land of analog (or well, at least physically tactile, we’re not quite generating sine waves from scratch over here…) gear.

and now, here i am – will be completely debt free in a month (hurray!) and little roland pretty much falls into my lap. awesome!! and it even comes with a nice boy who wants friends to jam with – he’s a professional sound guy / producer / dj / old old old friend that has just recently moved super close to me and has a studio full of blinky shit!) so…. pretty much the best thing ever.

i think it’s time to make the floor burn!

the 307 is awesome… i mean, it’s by no means the fanciest or the best, but it’s hilarious. it is made to make RAVE MUSIC. so cheesy. which i love. some people say the interface is weird or hard to use, but i really have no basis for comparison so it seems manageable for me. i’m having a lot of fun learning to use it (BLINKY SHIT)!!