Getsemani Music

12/09/2025

This weekends challenge: "Its that day of the year! the 909 day! For this weeks weekend challenge I want you to use the legendary 909 drum kit with your jam."

As I don't have a TR909 and rarely use samples, I'm going for percussion on the Boss RC505MkII which has an 808-909 drum kit on board. For the rest, we're arping the day away at about 170 bpm with the following:

Moog Muse
Moog Matriarch
Moog Grandmother
Kurzweil K2700

Effects:
Valhalla Supermassive
Moog MF103S Phaser
Moog MF104S Delay
UJAM Micro Finisher
Mr. Wiggly's Incinerator

This weekends challenge: "Its that day of the year! the 909 day! For this weeks weekend challenge I want you to use the legendary 909 drum kit with your jam....

07/09/2025

Less than 2 weeks to InkyFest!

Well we're here again! Lets have a great weekend of music and love, laughter and choons as we redub or HWJs fest to InkyFest!

06/09/2025

This weekend's challenge:

"This weekend’s challenge is simple, but challenging (!) Make a jam that is so good it will get you banned!* Make us wield the Ban Hammer! Will we ban everyone? Apocalypaban!!!!!!"

*Being banned on Hardware Jams is the highest honor that can be achieved.

What we did:
Yamaha PSR-SX900: Drums and Piano
Kurzweil K2700 Percussion
Moog Matriarch: Arps and Lead Synth
Effects:
Valhalla Supermassive
Moog MF103S Phaser
UJAM Micro Finisher

This weekend's challenge:"This weekend’s challenge is simple, but challenging (!) Make a jam that is so good it will get you banned!* Make us wield the Ban H...

30/08/2025

This weekend's challenge:

"Heavy construction. The sounds of construction and industry are everywhere. From droning engines to wailing sirens, pounding hammers to whirring gears - these sounds are often thought of as unpleasant, but can you discover the beauty in them?
There are two ways to do this weekend’s challenge, depending on your setup. The first option is to make a jam using samples from field recordings, construction sounds etc. You can make them yourself or find them online (I’ll post a couple of links in a comment). Make sure the recordings you use are copyright free. If you don’t have a sampler in your setup, the second option is to make a jam inspired by this sort of soundscape. Maybe you can make a beat sounding like an engine? Maybe some clever sound design will make a synth sound like a drill? Get creative.
Whichever way you do this challenge, focus on beauty. The challenge is to make a beautiful jam out of ugly sounds."

What we did:
Moog One: Lead
Kurzweil K2700 Hammer, Sequenced Percussion and Rhythm
Boss RC505-MkII Construction Site Samples
Effects:
Moog MF103S Phaser
Moog MF104S Delay
Valhalla Supermassive

This weekend's challenge:"Heavy construction. The sounds of construction and industry are everywhere. From droning engines to wailing sirens, pounding hammer...

27/08/2025

Moog One firmware update 1.8.0 was released on August 19th and included 15 fixes, most related to improvements in the ability to use MIDI on the Moog One which previously had never been fully integrated. It didn't take long before several users started noticing new issues, the most significant of which is that many presets had been rendered unusable in the process. With the release of firmware update 1.8.1 on August 27th, most of the preset issues have been fixed.

The root cause was that some of the new code related to updating MIDI Latch functionality inadvertently trampled oscillator sync setting which severely affected many patches rendering the update unusable, especially for those users not using the new MIDI functions. There are still a small number of patches that still have issues, and Moog is still working on identifying the cause in time to include it with 1.8.2 which is now being worked. (The option of returning to firmware 1.5 is still easily accomplished if the remaining issues affect you.)

Thanks to Geert Bevin at Moog Music for jumping in immediately to correct the most serious issues with the 1.8.0 release and to Matt Urmenyi, the sound designer for all the patches in this video for recognizing the problem and sounding the alarms to make this fix a priority!

Moog One firmware update 1.8.0 was released on August 19th and included 15 fixes, most related to improvements in the ability to use MIDI on the Moog One whi...

23/08/2025

Moog One firmware update 1.8.0 was released on August 19th and included 15 fixes, most related to improvements in the ability to use MIDI on the Moog One which previously had never been fully integrated. It didn't take long before several users started noticing new issues, the most significant of which is that many presets seem to have been rendered unusable in the process. This video shows some examples of those issues.

Moog One firmware update 1.8.0 was released on August 19th and included 15 fixes, most related to improvements in the ability to use MIDI on the Moog One whi...

22/08/2025

This weekend's challenge:

"Often when we make a jam we get into a flow, but the difficult thing is knowing how to stop! This week I want you to concentrate on how your jam ends. It could be happy, sad, perhaps a false ending or slowing down to a gradual stop. Make it count."

What we did:
Yamaha PSR-SX900: Drums and Guitar
Kurzweil K2700 Sequenced Percussion and Rhythm
Minimoog Voyager: Lead Synth
Effects:
Cherry Audio Galactic Reverb
Valhalla Supermassive

This weekend's challenge:"Often when we make a jam we get into a flow, but the difficult thing is knowing how to stop! This week I want you to concentrate on...

21/08/2025

Today marks the retirement of my faithful Alesis QS8.1. It's still in great shape, but it's from 1999 and it was time to update that slot to a more modern and capable synth to complement my suite of Moog's.

That task falls on the Kurzweil K2700. Here's the video of it's arrival and a short sample of what it sounds like,

Today marks the retirement of my faithful Alesis QS8.1. It's still in great shape, but it's from 1999 and it was time to update that slot to a more modern an...

20/08/2025

Bummer. Synth that was supposed to arrive today didn’t turn left in Indianapolis. Now in Memphis instead of Cincinnati.

16/08/2025

The Challenge:
"Per aspera ad astra - through difficulties to the stars. Your challenge this weekend is to make a jam using this old motto of encouragement. There are several ways of doing this. You might make a jam slowly building from chaos into something structured and uplifting." We'll just stop there.

The Response: We take you through three levels from chaos to happiness.
Instruments:
Moog One
Moog Muse
Minimoog Model D
Cherry Audio KR55C
Effects:
Moog MF103S Phaser
Moog MF107S FreqBox
UJAM Micro Finisher
Valhalla Supermassive

The Challenge:"Per aspera ad astra - through difficulties to the stars. Your challenge this weekend is to make a jam using this old motto of encouragement. T...

15/08/2025

This week Tim and I published a video of a collaboration jam. There was a lot going on with 11 synths between us, so I though it might be interesting to show what each of us contributed. This video breaks down how we put it together while being 4100 miles apart.

00:00 What Tim sent me. (Tim's audio isolated.)
05:22 What I came up with to add to it. (Brian's audio isolated.)
10:18 The final mix.

This week Tim and I published a video of a collaboration jam. There was a lot going on with 11 synths between us, so I though it might be interesting to show...