Author: Jon
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(Repost) The Soul Sounds of Ma Bell: An Interview with Evan Doorbell
Image Credit: “Phone booth” by magnetbox is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Originally published on March 17, 2020, it is without question the most popular post on <the old site>. Evan’s site got a big upgrade this year, so it seemed fitting to pull this one for the next Repost. I’ve updated the links to reflect the changes,…
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Happy end of #Marchintosh! (Meet Lucy)
So the pull of Nostalgia was strong this month… After getting MaG3 updated and trying to get Master Tracks Pro running on it I knew I had two choices – either brute force the bugs and foibles of getting it to work on a PowerPC (the G3 iBook) or get a system that was designed…
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Goodbye Josephine, Hello Benson (with bonus MaG3)
Image is the state of APITElabs in late 2023 – it’s much, much messier as I write this… 🙂 With #marchintosh under way, this is one of those ‘What I did over the Holidaze®’ as well as a ‘The New Shiny-Shiny’ post. We had a longer than usual break at EduCorp® this year, so I…
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The Costa Conundrum (a Synthesizer Mystery)
Image Credit: Helmes Celesta, RCA Studio B by Adinda Uneputty, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Lately, I’ve been haunting Synthchaser’s Tube of Yous Channel because I’ve been thinking a lot about ARP’s early synths. Not the normal ones that everyone thinks of like the 2600 or the Odyssey – I’ve been obsessed with…