The moody groove
By Continuous Nonlinearities on April 5, 2026 6:58 am
It was my birthday this week, so I indulged myself and ordered a Soma Laboratory Pulsar 23 (in mint green, because if it comes in tasty colours you should get the tasty colour). It came about two weeks earlier than I expected, so I actually got my self-present the day after my birthday, which I will definitely not complain about.
My initial experimentation was fun but became frustrating on reflection - things sounded great while I was doing them, but less so when listening to recordings. The moody grooves stopped being as groovy. I had to embrace that there is no permanence within the Pulsar, I needed to rip it up and start again. I enlisted my Digitakt to act as a sequencer, because frankly I am not great at live sequencing but get along well with a grid sequencer. I still need to figure out how to use the two together beyond this, but I'm pretty happy with the results here.
All sounds Pulsar, except for the Prophet 6 lead and some small guitar. Kinotone Sparks -> Chase Bliss Clean -> Death By Audio Rooms may have become my post-production chain.
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