Get It Right the First Time

This evening I hooked up my Minitaur up to my junky old MPC Live that I bought a few weeks ago. When I say junky old, I mean it in the most loving possible way. There’s something about the size, the weight, and the feel of this original MPC Live that is just works. The battery lasts forever. I’ve been taking it around the house with me since I got it, tacky/ sticky degrading soft touch and all. At some point this morning, I realized that the Minitaur is 12 volts, which works with my MyVolts USB-C tip. So, I put the two together, loaded up a drum kit, put a tape delay on the Minitaur channel coming into the MPC Live, and lost an hour of my life. Obviously, I didn’t lose it— deeply musically satisfying actually. I enjoyed it so much that I questioned every decision I’ve made since I bought a minitaur long ago. It is, as I’ve said here before, my favorite. Sometimes I feel my life is an endless loop. Hard to believe that I picked the right thing as my first synth, and still—I’ve been…