Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 3: Getting to know Arduino

Arduino Mega 2560
Arduino Mega 2560

This morning my Arduino Mega 2560 arrived. After some weeks of research it was time to get my hands dirty. Working with Arduino is as simple as boiling an egg. You go to the getting started pages on the Arduino website, choose your operating system, download and install the development tool and follow the steps described. Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 3: Getting to know Arduino”

Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 2: How hard can it be?

PIC
PIC

I must be a terrible person: last couple of weeks I’ve seen the most impressive effects switcher units, however, none of them could perfectly suit my needs. Things like loop switchers aren’t cheap (at least not the decent ones), so the one I’ll be buying has to be exactly what I need. At least it has to compensate for the guilty feeling that emerges from giving in to the GAS… again. Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 2: How hard can it be?”

Drawing on the iPad – Adobe Ideas

Car
Car

A tablet computer can be a great tool when used in creative processes: it is portable, has a very natural interface (with your hands/fingers, directly on the screen) and it makes it easy to share your ideas.

One way of being creative or helping creativity is drawing and nowadays the app store has plenty of drawing/painting apps to offer. Now I can say I tried a lot of them, but there is one app that somehow draws my attention time and time again. It’s made by Adobe and is called Ideas. Continue reading “Drawing on the iPad – Adobe Ideas”

Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 1: Why build one myself?

Rocktron PatchMate Loop 8 Floor
Rocktron PatchMate Loop 8 Floor

Like most guitar geeks I too am cursed with an incurable disease named GAS. For those who may have never heard of it before: it’s an acronym which stands for Gear Aquisition Syndrome, or the irresistible urge to try and buy new guitar gear. All this in the holy search for the ultimate sound.  Continue reading “Project Effects Loop Switcher
PART 1: Why build one myself?”