OURFRIENDGUS

Author: Gus

  • How to add a Battery to Electronic Instruments

    Electronic instruments like the Akai MPC One, Maschine+, or Modular synthesizers are great tools for making music. For me, they serve as a way to escape being at the computer where I’m working primarily with the keyboard and mouse. Exploring other creative modalities like twisting knobs or bouncing pads is great, especially if you use…

  • Septavox Synth by Critter & Guitari

    I was in the local modular synthesizer store when they received delivery of the Septavox from Critter & Guitari and I immediately was taken back by the future organ sounds that came out of the cute little synth. The keys are made of wood and the case is bent metal, giving this synth a very…

  • Our Friend Gus’s Casiotone CT 640

    This synthesizer was Casio’s first keyboard based on sampled sounds. When I was a young piano student, I had access to one at home and would noodle around on the keys and play my Suzuki method homework on these sweet PCM sampled instruments. I also remember being blown away by the DEMO mode of this…

  • Mic Check

    Hi! I’m Gus, we’re friends now, I am currently working on the OURFRIENDGUS (Our Friend Gus) project for which this web site’s been created. I have been making a lot of music over the past few years and can’t wait to show you! I hope you’re having a fantastic day and I will be writing…