DANCING Pt. IV with E-Squared 4-25-09 at 529

This Saturday, Eric Archer will be joining us with his buddy and performing as E-Squared for a crazy diy techno dance party! These guys are really interesting, and Eric has documented some of the incredible projects he's made on his site. Here's a video from Handmade Music up in Brooklyn on 4.16.09.

As always, Judi Chicago will be performing and then presiding over the freaking crazy ass dance party!

Jeff Mills is awesome

I seem to remember hearing about this at some point, but I've never seen it before. Its pretty fantastic.

acid

here's a 2.5 minutes of nice happy ambient acid.

linky

used:

Roland Jupiter 6
Boss Dr 110
Jomox xbase 09
oakley tb3030
moog mg1
roland re-201 space echo

Recompas Live Video from 12/08/07

My Friend just realized he had this video up on youtube, but hadn't made it public. Nice little recording and good quality.



Tonight we're playing with Themselves at 529 in East Atlanta.

Next week is going to be a busy one...

Tons of stuff going on next week in recompas land. First, next Wednesday, April 8th, I will be presenting the Voice of Saturn stuff at the Dorkbot Atlanta meeting. I'll be joined by Scott from Curious Inventor who will be showing off some other projects of his, including the stribe1. Also presenting will be Beth Millikan, talking about Freeside Altanta, a non-profit hacker space they are trying to setup.

Then Thursday at 529, recompas will be playing with Themselves (cue immature joke). Should be a really cool show, I've been into Themselves for quite some time, and I think Chris Devoe will be djing the night! You can get your tickets from Ticket Alternative.

Voice of Saturn Synth/VCF on vacation

The Voice of Saturn Synth and Voltage Controlled Filter are up at Vacation Boutique in the ATL. I've also been talking with Kristin, one of the owners, about doing some custom art for units sold at the boutique. If you are in town, and want to try 'em out, head on over.

Voice of Saturn VC Filter released

Voice of Saturn Voltage Controlled Filter from CuriousInventor on Vimeo.

The VoS VC Filter is based off of a CEM3372 4 pole low pass filter chip, complete with 2 inputs (each with a vca) and a vca on the output. Lots of modulation possiblities. his first limited run of 50 will include the super fun joystick, which is completely modular.

I'm really happy that we've finally been able to get this out the door. Its a lot of fun to play with, and sounds great with the rest of the modules. More details, pricing, etc, here.

recompas <3's homemade lofi psych

The other day I stumbled upon a great blog, homemade indie lofi psych that, as the name suggests, posts all sorts of rare, and unheard music in those genres. I sent the guy that runs the site some recompas stuff, and they've been showing us some love lately. Great blog, I highly recommend checking it out.

In other news: The VoS VCF test pcb run came in yesterday, if all goes well, we'll be releasing kits very, very soon. I'm excited. Also, recompas will be opening up for Themselves at 529 in East Atlanta on April 9th. flyer to come soon.

Voice of Saturn CEM Filter

Coming soon - The Voice of Saturn Voltage Controlled Filter. We're currently finalizing the first version of the PCB, which should be sent out for manufacturing in a few days. The filter is based around a cem3372 vcf chip, the same chip found in the Sequential Circuits Prophet 600. I'm particularly excited about the first 50, as they will have a nice joystick controller built in (if we can find more, we'll make more with them).

sound samples coming soon...

new project

new project, originally uploaded by recompas.

traded the rogue for a sci prophet 600. Needs a little lovin' but it sounds fantastic. currently hunting down some keyboard contact strips and a 'D' key.

The Devil's Sleep demo

The first run is super limited, and they can be found at Criminal Records and at Vacation Boutique in Atlanta, GA for $125.

3 of 8

3 of 5, originally uploaded by recompas.

First run of the hand made Devil's Sleep booster pedal destined for Vacation Boutique this week sometime. There's only going to be 8 of these hand-made ones. Soon i'll have other cases and printed circuit boards. These will blow up speakers.

christmas toy

christmas toy, originally uploaded by recompas.

Got a Blacet Darkstar Chaos for xmas. Lots of video game sound fun. Decided to build a modular cabinet for that, my Evenfall Minimodular and my Blacet Stonez which is on the way. Time for bed now.

Live set - Eyedrum 12.19.08

Here's our set from last night. This one is all minimal, no drums. Really nice board mix.

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Live recording 12-13-08

Here's our live set from last weekend at 529 in East Atlanta. Pretty decent sound quality, though the drums are mixed pretty loud (I think this was from only one channel in the board).

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Moog Rogue - Craigslist deal of the year

Moog Rogue, originally uploaded by recompas.

Its nice to know you can still come across good deals on craigslist if you keep your eyes peeled. I scored this Moog Rogue for $50! It took some contact cleaner and rubbing alcohol and about an hour of work, but it looks really good. I still have to get inside and remove all the deteriorated, oilified foam under the panel (total mess), but I rigged up a power supply and it works like a champ. Tuning is a little unstabled, but I only had an 18vac supply laying around, and it requires 24vac. Hopefully that will fix it.

Judi Chicago Promo Shots

Judi Chicago Promo Shots, originally uploaded by FuckYouNinja.

Here's a bunch of synths and crap and Judi Chicago

Orgone Accumulator

From our show last Saturday, Fringe Factory at the Highland Inn.

For everyone with a Korg Poly 61...

Merry early Christmas

I've been thinking about this for a while, and thanks to some pointers from the Synth DIY mailing list, I've managed to get a nice workable mod for realtime filter cutoff and resonance on my Poly 61.



The digital signal for the filter cutoff can be found coming out IC 42, where a simple DAC is created with 6 signals and some resistors. These lead to IC 36, which buffers the signal and sends it to pin 12 of connector 10A (cpu to voice board).



Similarly, filter resonance comes from IC 36, a buffer that is connected to IC 28. Pin 13 is the location on the connector.

Take the signals from the connector cable by carefully cutting wires 12 and 13 and stripping them. Solder wires and insulate propers (this can be tricky, and messy).



For the cutoff pot, you can create a voltage divider between +5 volts and the signal coming from the CPU board (max cutoff is -5volts). There are many places to get 5 volts, I used Pin 26 on IC28.



For the resonance, use a ground point for one side of the pot, and the cpu board side for the other, the signal is 0-10 volts.



Probably not the cleanest mod in the world, but simple to do, and it really adds a new level of expression to the cheap and easy to find Korg Poly 61. One note, when you program a patch now, the cutoff level will determine the max cutoff amount the potentiometer will affect, and resonance amount will determine the minimum resonance setting for that potentiometer. In other words, for full range, set the cutoff to 63, and the resonance to 0.

Enjoy non stepped filter sweeps!

Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synthesizer

Finished, originally uploaded by recompas - click for more pictures.

I just spent a very long day building this using a circuit board I picked up from Electro-Music.com. They did a fantastic job with the layout, and thanks to a bunch of great tips and diagrams on the forum I didn't have much trouble. I created the panel using laminated paper, as is suggested by Music From Outer Space (Ray Wilson) and I'm super happy with the results.

I decided to use a giant sized Voice of Saturn case and had room to add a simple spring reverb module as well. Its pre-patched to take the MPS output, but the jacks are normalled so you can use it with any source.

Here's an mp3 of it in action. Towards the end I am triggering and cv-sequencing using a Voice of Saturn Sequencer.

audio demo

More info on the MPS here.