Music technology · Scotland

Synth tutorials, live jams and free tools for making music.

I'm Chris. I make in-depth guides to Teenage Engineering gear and other instruments, jam live on the channel, and build open-source software for musicians.

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Things I've made

Everything I build is free and open source. Use it, fork it, send a pull request.

MIDI Surf
Live

A customisable MIDI controller that runs in your browser, on phones and tablets too, and works offline. Faders, XY pads, chord banks and isomorphic keyboards, and you can share presets as a link.

Elm

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Lattice
In development

A keyboard-driven audio tracker inspired by Vim. Baffling at first, then fun, then no gap at all between a musical idea and a finished song.

Rust

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FunDSP synth example
Open source

A minimal example of making sound in Rust with FunDSP and CPAL, written alongside the video tutorial. A small, hackable starting point for audio programming.

Rust

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Chords Videopak
Open source

An extension for the OP-Z app that lets you play chords in different keys, modes and forms, controlled from the OP-Z's Motion track.

Unity · C#

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About

A one-person music tech company

Mo Chreach! Music Technology Ltd is a small company based in Scotland, set up in 2023 to make software for audio. That sounds grand, but really it's just me: I'm passionate about music and technology, and I love making things.

The channel started as a place to share songs and tutorials, and grew into long, careful guides to the instruments I use, like the OP-XY video manual, with chapters for every feature. Alongside that there are live jams, coding tutorials for audio and MIDI, and videos about the tools I build.

Mo chreach! is Scottish Gaelic, roughly "my ruin!": an old cry of dismay, and a fair description of what happens to your bank balance once you get into synths.

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Questions about a video, a bug in MIDI Surf, or just want to share what you're making? The Discord is the best place. For anything else, email me.

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Synth tutorials, live jams and free tools for making music.

The big ones

Every video

Things I've made

MIDI Surf

Lattice

FunDSP synth example

Chords Videopak

A one-person music tech company

Keep the videos coming

Patreon

Ko-fi

Channel membership

Come and say hello