Porting MDFourier to PowerPC Macs

There’s a recurring question in my life which never seems to find a proper answer: “Why?” Thanks to a certain someone on Twitter, I got the itch to get my hands on a PowerPC Mac and while browsing the various wikis and websites about vintage macs, I already had in mind what I was looking … Read more

Adding a battery to backup SRAM in the Yamaha MU15

There’s nothing more disheartening than working for an entire week on a track and then finding out that your sound module completely forgot all of the settings of the various instruments you carefully altered, layered and assigned a certain effect to (oh right, all the various effects settings are gone as well). Of course, that … Read more

Unlocking Yamaha’s XG System secrets

Yamaha XG

I honestly think that Yamaha XG is one of the most underrated MIDI systems ever made. It got the bad stigma of being just a “better General MIDI” box (isn’t that the case with Roland GS as well?) without people realizing how flexible and powerful this system is. And not just for playing back MIDI … Read more