We will learn how to use Numerical Methods to effectively simulate a guitar distortion circuit. If you are unfamiliar with the basics of distortion head to the basics post to read about it a bit. Traditional guitar effects are an analog circuit, while the distortion is no exception. The simplest distortion…

Hei Hei! I wanted to share my recent project, an open source guitar looper pedal. https://github.com/alexjilkin/loop It enables you to record a loop and play along, while also allowing you to use an Amp with distortion, delay and an lowpass filter. It works currently only on Chrome and MacOS, as Windows introduces some delay to it. I am open to any feedback, I enjoy using it and my motivation was being able to play along with my self easier then using a looper pedal.

Happy to say that we have the keys to our first apartment, A nice 55 square meters in Taka-Töölö with a view to the Sibelius park. It was a journey of understanding where we would like to live, we went through different neighborhoods. The one at Meilahti that we really liked…

We got ourselves a nice keyboard to play generated sounds in the previous chapter. Now I think it is time to add a module infrastructure, where we can add different modules that can spice up our sound. …

It’s definitely not as dark and not as cold as everyone were telling me about. I feel like before every step in my life there was someone saying “Wait until you will make that step, it wont be so easy as you think” If it was when I went from…

Hey. I didn’t think about relocating seriously until the 2nd quarantine imposed by the Israeli government and an email I got from a Klarna recruiter. at the 26th of September I got the email, on the 27th I already had a talk with Tim who was a very nice gut…

Consider a simple 25 hertz sine wave. By asymmetrically hard clipping it at the 0.6 level we get a crude distortion

As a web developer who is also interested in art of music, i was drawn to the technical side of music, if its changing a pick up to my guitar, create a hardware square wave oscillator module and try to create a distortion pedal. A project creates sound and music…

Checkout part 2 where we create a virtual keyboard to play our sine wave. And checkout the full project I am working on: jsynth. As a web developer and someone who is interested in the technical aspect of music creation, I decided to try and create a modular web synth…