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Studio notes — Tuesday, October 27 Starting today, I'm sharing studio notes every weekday. This morning I worked on My Second Guess, finishing new pieces that are a little melancholic. I'm also building my YouTube channel with mixes and Eurorack modular versions of my pieces. Come see me there too.

I only meant to try one thing. one cable, one knob, one small idea. then afternoon was just gone. music eats time quietly. I don't mind.

Hermetic Modular Capicola Slice, stretch, shift, distort / A novel time stretching algorithm. Seems pretty interesting, will look deeper into this. hermeticmodular.com/modules/alch... #eurorack #modularsynth

rain stopped an hour ago. put this on for the walk home. #ambientmusic

Six stereo effects, one knob each. NANO Modules FUM packs delay, reverb, shimmer, chorus, texture and a DJ filter into 12HP, plus a Freeze that sustains the reverb forever. Seems pretty useful to me to get some fx action going on, anyone tried it? nanoindustri.es/product/fum/ #eurorack

20CC's TXX-1 Spectron stitches vintage tape recordings into a dual oscillator with FM and sync, projected to ship Nov/Dec. Pure ambient fuel. Would you patch tape choirs into your rack? www.20cc.cool #eurorack #modularsynth

11pm. one oscillator, a few cables, a feeling i couldn't name yet. by 4am the room was quiet and the patch finally started to breathe. some nights you don't make the music, you just wait for it to arrive. full piece at arbee.ca #modularsynth

one side of the room is still warm. the other already belongs to the evening. i leave the patch running between them and listen for the place where amber turns to blue.

Floating Knobs Spice: a quadraphonic wavetable oscillator in 12HP, 4 DC-coupled ins/outs, crunchy bitcrush and your own wavetables via SD card. seems pretty interesting, anyone tried it? #eurorack #modularsynth www.floatingknobs.com/product-page...

Early session, be my guest.

rain on the window, rain in the track. i left the recorder running and let the room decide how soft this should be. stay for twenty seconds. stay longer if it helps. #ambientmusic #rainsounds

one of those rare studio days. every cable lands where it should, every module answers back. nothing to fix. just listening.

Some mornings, I cannot make out the module; nothing seems to work. So, I stop looking. Perhaps it is time to go elsewhere. There are various things that can help the project move forward. And sometimes, that is enough.

studio notes, what's taking shape, new releases before anywhere else, and the music keeping me company. no noise, no hurry. just a quiet thing in your inbox. subscribe to my weekly newsletter → arbee.ca #ambientmusic

Dnipro x Sinevibes Radiant firmware 2.5 adds a looper: up to 64 s, with overdub, pitch, length and start controls. Free update, made in Ukraine. Lovely for slow ambient layers. Who has one in their rack and tried it yet? synthanatomy.com/2026/10/dnip... #eurorack #modularsynth

nothing to finish today. just a few lights, a patch left running, and room for the sound to arrive on its own. new music out now and more on the way. #ambient

Beads, Mutable Instruments' granular swan song and Clouds successor, is now open source: full firmware (MIT) and hardware files are on GitHub. A dream for ambient textures. What would you build or hack with it? github.com/pichenettes/eurorack #eurorack #modularsynth

some nights the only thing awake is the streetlight, and the rain keeps it company. veilleuses is music for those hours — small lights left on, nothing asking to be finished. full album out now → ffm.to/veilleuses #ambient

some light doesn't enter the room. it waits at the window, soft, and lets the hours pass through. more slow music at arbee.ca #ambient #ambientmusic #modularsynth

the patch stopped making sense around midnight. i left one light on anyway — not to finish anything, just so the sound would have somewhere to stay.

Arbee - Veilleuses [Full Album] www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpj...

veilleuses, out now. twelve small lights for the hours that drift. ambient & modular, made slowly. #ambientmusic listen → ffm.to/veilleuses

some afternoons the music only needs the cables i refuse to move. leave them where they fell — something softer grows there.

some music is made to keep you company when the house goes quiet. veilleuses, a new album, arrives this friday, october 16. modular synths, fog, and small lights that stay on. pre-save / listen: ffm.to/veilleuses #ambient

ambient isn't slow. it's patient. it waits for you the way a room waits after everyone leaves: the hum of a fridge, a voltage drifting half a step, a light deciding whether to stay on. play it quietly enough, and it disappears. somehow that's when it starts.

somewhere between the day and what's left of it. the light lingers a little longer than it should, and nothing asks to be finished. more slow music for still evenings at arbee.ca, for the hours that drift. #ambientmusic

small lights drifting through the fog. veilleuses, a full ambient album, made for the hours when the house goes quiet. out this friday, october 16. pre-order: arbee.ca #ambient #modularsynth #ambientmusic

the ways we go - with still surface on Lost Sounds ffm.to/arbee-still-...

not everything i make goes out into the world. some pieces stay under the trees, for a smaller circle. subscribe on Bandcamp and you'll hear them first, plus everything else i've released. arbee.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Seasonal Transition. Transit Signal is Le Code and Arbee. #ambientmusic ffm.to/seasonal-tra...

more music with still surface means the playlist got updated ffm.to/still-surfac...

the ways we go the path to finding our inner peace, it's ever changing, dynamic and uncertain. no matter where life leads, the ways we go are the ways we must trust in. through thick and thin, up and down, the journey is full of beauty, so we have to appreciate each step. ffm.to/arbee-still-...

a few seconds of stillness, nothing to chase. slow ambient music, made on my modular, for the moments you give back to yourself.

rain on water. ambient underneath. for your ambient music needs arbee.ca

some days the sound arrives before the shape. i follow it slowly, the way you walk into mist — not to see further, just to be inside it a little longer.

once a week, a quiet letter. what i'm building, what i'm hearing, what stayed on the workbench. no noise. just the process. every Friday. arbeemonkey.substack.com

monday patch. nothing planned, just one voltage left wandering — by evening it had found its way home as a melody.

still water. a grey light. two old posts waiting. new liminal #ambient mix, 41 minutes of quiet modular pieces. youtube.com/watch?v=xghA...

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still surface x arbee [Playlist] youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The light does the work. i just leave the room quiet enough to hear it. Veilleuses — October 16. pre-save at arbee.ca

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