Notes for this day

09:46

There’s an incredible piece of software called Rebirth RB-338 from 1997 that I’ve loved and played with since 97 - But mostly on the surface though, I never dove into the song mode or anything, just made basic patterns and messed around with the mouse. I’ve now spend a few evenings with the manual and an old midi controller (Korg nanoKontrol) and have been mapping the RB-338 midi controls to the nanoKontrol (uploading it to the device). I now have a pretty nice controller for the app that’s permanently on there. The midi controller has 9 faders and knobs, along with two buttons for each “lane” - but it’s actually 4x that because of the scenes button. So this way I can have the 2 303’s on scene 1, the 808 on scene 2, the 909 on scene 3 and then general mixing and effects on scene

1. And let me tell you it’s glorious!

Being able to tweak multiple knobs and the same time for both 303 is amazing, and I can program patterns in to the drum machines while also having fader volume control for each drum - I’m just blown away how fun this is now.

Since this is very old software, made for old Windows, I’m using Wine on Linux to run the thing and the inputs in Bitwig are setup to accept the audio from RB-338. I will use this setup to live perform long form Acid Techno sessions. I might upload those to Youtube and for sure to BandCamp. I might compile something to put on bandcamp even, in album form.