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.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
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).
linky
linky
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Moog Rogue - Craigslist deal of the year
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.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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!
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!
Friday, November 28, 2008
Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synthesizer
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.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Live set from last night...
Here's the set we played last night, board recording: linky.
The second tune is a cover of Gong's Master Builder. Overall I think one of our best gigs, very space. Sole and the Skyrider Band were great.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Voice of Saturn at Maker Faire this weekend!
We'll have a table this weekend at the Maker Faire in Austin, TX. Scott @ Curious Inventor will be doing some soldering demos (including some advanced surface mount mumbo jumbo) and I'll be demoing current Voice of Saturn gear as well as the prototype ribbon controller I've been working on (above). Come out and say hi!
Also, be sure to check out eric archer's band operation playmate as they will be performing on Sunday. Eric is behind the wonderful and amazing drone commander.
-t
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Voice of Saturn in Italy!
The nice folks over at the Italian site NoiseCollective.net have some nice VoS tutorials. Check 'em out!
linky
Thursday, September 18, 2008
recompas live @ The EARL 9.17.08
Live set from last night's show with Tussle and the Selmanaires. It keeps growing.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
New Voice of Saturn ~Modulator!
The Voice of Saturn ~Modulator, and compact sound processing module that includes a VCA, Attack - Release generator, and LFO with square and triangle outputs.
More info:
here
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
recompas live this saturday
We'll be playing the Drunken Unicorn this Saturday along with Sonn Av Krusher and Lay Down Mains. Live recording to follow, here is some to tide you over.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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