Last Updated - 2020 January 18

Hey. My name is Robert Randolph.

Maybe read this post about me first?

This is what I do with my free time:

• Develop software in…
  • C/asm for AVR and ARM microcontroller platforms
  • Common Lisp for desktop and web.
  • Clojure and Java for desktop.
  • Haskell for fun.
    • I’m current playing with Nim for fun now.
    • I’ve been adding cljs capability to my resumé recently.
• Music…
  • Electric and Double bass
  • Percussion, mainly drum kit focusing on jazz and post-rock styles
  • Piano
  • Trombone
  • Trumpet
  • Electric Violin
  • SuperCollider fiddling
  • VST programming
  • Instruction and teaching!
• Software tinkering
  • I just have a really big interest in DAWs, their workings and workflows.
    • I currently primarily use Cubase and Reaper.
  • I really love Omnifocus and Many products from ManyTricks Software. Specifically KeyMo, Moom and Time Sink.
  • I design with Omnigraffle, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo.
  • Videos are done with Screenflow and Resolve using a Panasonic G9 and various Logitech Webcams.
  • I was a die-hard emacs user, but I tried to live without it for a month. It was successful and I continued using Vim as I have for a long time, then I did a month without that and… now I use VS Code and NetBeans.
  • Nope. As of February 2018 I’m back to using emacs and Evil Mode. VS Code is awesome software, but the VIM layer is just not as good as I need. I also really miss things like Ivy, Key Chords and having relative line numbers in normal mode, and absolute line numbers in insert mode. It’s built in to my consciousness.
  • Nope… using VSCode again. Vim bindings don’t seem to suck as much anymore, Calva is pretty awesome. The ‘out of the box’ cross-language capabilities are just too good to ignore.
• Tutorials!
  • DAW tutorials
  • Mechanics and efficiency tutorials for music
  • Electronics repair
• Workshop
  • I have a pretty nice workshop where I build all sorts of things that you’ll see here.
• Cook
  • I do a lot of the cooking in the house, and I quite enjoy it.

You can find me at

• youtube - I’m updating this regularly now!
• Freenode.net as AdmiralBumbleBee. I spend most of my time in #ardour, #lisp, #clojure and ##C
  • I’m usually on other servers like thinstack, quakenet, rizon, efnet and more.
• AdmiralBumbleBee Discord
• EDMP Discord
• WATMM
• Forums
  • KVR Audio
  • Gearslutz
  • Reaper
  • Motu Nation - Eh, I don’t really use this much. There’s 2 users that ruin the entire environment.
• Yeah, that’s it pretty much. I don’t do the social online thing much.
  • Ok, I’m working on making $$ from this site, but I still refuse to put ads. So I’m trying to figure out this social media thing now:
    • Instagram
    • Twitter
    • Youtube
• E-mail - I use gmail. My local-part of the email is audiolabs.

You won’t find me at

• github. (Actually I am on github. I just don’t use it much)
  • I dislike the community aspect of development, and I also prefer to use Mercurial. So I use bitbucket instead.