The Grand Fallacy

Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
The Grand Fallacy

Musician

For almost 35 years, I’ve had opportunities to collaborate with many talented musicians, singers, and songwriters — as a bassist, songwriter, and producer. I love working with others and bringing out their best.

Blog

Here’s where you’ll find my random musings about making music, making gear work properly, getting organized and being productive, leadership and management, and more.

Geek Wrangler

Like a lot of working semi-pro musicians, I have a day hustle. Mine’s pretty great — building, enabling, and serving incredible teams of software engineers as a director of global software engineering at Red Hat.

HydraSynth and Launch Control XL3

I recently got a Novation Launch Control XL3 to integrate some hardware control with my growing synth collection. I thought it would be interesting to pair my trusty HydraSynth and...
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Full stop on multiple Elektron boxes.

Learn this foolproof way to make full stop on multiple Elektron boxes work. I use it for a Digitakt II + Digitone II setup in my studio.
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Holiday in retrospect.

Welcome to 2026. As many do, I took an extended break over the holiday. My last day at work was December 12th and I just returned yesterday as of this...
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