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justin3am wrote:Great work. The spring reverbs are awesome too!
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I like your way with a wooden enclosure Knockman, so simple and elegant.

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No pictures, Im afraid, but I finally got my arse into gear and built my Music Thing Vactrol Mix, so my Turing Machine set (Turing Machine, Pulses, Voltages, Vactrol Mix) is finally complete and installed.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand

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So finally here's a picture of what Ive got built and working so far. Ive greyed out the prebuilt modules, they're only in that 3-row case temporarily anyway.

Top row:

Circuit Abbey Programmer Breakout, 2 x Circuit Abbey Euroduino, Music Thing Turing Machine, Music Thing Pulses, Music Thing Voltages, Music Thing Vactrol Mix (

Middle Row

2x Music Thing Radio Music, RYO Optodist, Laurentide Synthworks VG2, Ginkosynthese Grains, Ginkosynthese SampleSlicer, Music Thing Mikrophonie
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my other modular synth is a bugbrand

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Fantastic work! Love the look of you black and red TM+expanders.
How do you like the Sample Slicer? I think shamman has one as well. I was thinking of getting the kit from Modular Addict.

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justin3am wrote:Fantastic work! Love the look of you black and red TM+expanders.
How do you like the Sample Slicer? I think shamman has one as well. I was thinking of getting the kit from Modular Addict.
Yeah, those are the original black acrylic panels; they're laser-etched and you have to paint in the red yourself.

I like the Sampleslicer, but up until now its been a bit underused; I'd been kind of avoiding feeding external audio in, but didnt have much in the way of triggering or sequencing etc to build loops inside the modular as a standalone system.
But some other modules I've added in the past 6 months feed more into doing that, especially the TM set, the Knit Rider, and the 1010 Bitbox. I'm kinda looking to a workflow based on bouncing stuff to, and then between, the Sampleslicer and the Bitbox.

The SampleSlicer was a ludicrously easy kit, the board is 95% premade, its really just adding some LEDs, the panel and hardware.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand

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1957 RCA MI 12161 to Fender Tweed Deluxe 5C3 Conversion
The amp was converted from a PA amp to a guitar amp by Frugal Amps, USA. I bought it in the state that you see in the video and designed a cabinet for it.

Project video with sound test and a look on some of the final details of the cabinet. Includes some pictures of the original 1957 RCA catalogue and a comparison between the original and the conversion units.
Note that I don´t play guitar regularly for many years now (including a period of 10 years that I didn´t even touch it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_AzhHa_YjI
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Great work Ourafilmes! I haven't had a chance to watch the video in full, I just skipped forward to see the guts of the amp. :D
I'll check the rest out later.

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Thanks! Cheers!

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I've had several builds on the go these past few months and made a concerted effort to finish off a handful. Still a few more yet to complete but I just finished a dual ADSR module that means I can make more sense of what I've got so far :)

Here's the latest stuff:
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Drum sequencer - combines Look Mum No Computer's Big Button with a Wav Trigger. I extended the Wav Trigger's SD card slot to make it accessible from the front in order to swap out different drum kits. Also made it patch-able and built a 'trigger box' that plugs into my Korg SAS-20 so I can access its individual drum sounds. Big thanks to aciddose for helping me on this in another thread :tu:
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A dual ADSR with trigger to gate converter
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ADSR 1 is Arduino based: http://m0xpd.blogspot.com/2017/02/signa ... duino.html
ADSR 2 is from Practical Electronics (Jan 1979). Paul in the Lab kindly posted a scan online: https://paulinthelab.blogspot.com/2015/03/
The trigger to gate converter is just a 555 circuit. Here's the guts:
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Next up, a case for these modules - they can easily be swapped in and out, being held snug by strips of neoprene rubber.
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At the bottom is another Look Mum No Computer project - an Arduino based step sequencer

Finally, here's a video of this stuff in action - hooked up to a tangible waves AE Modular, plus a few other bits and pieces (apologies as it goes on a bit):
https://youtu.be/muNjadeoYk8

Still to finish building - a couple more filters and some buffered multiples.

Cheers

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It looks beautiful !

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Great work! All of your projects have so much character!
Thanks again for sharing. :)

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justin3am wrote:Great work! All of your projects have so much character!
Thanks again for sharing. :)
agreed. you've got a really nice aesthetic going on there. :tu:
my other modular synth is a bugbrand

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Thanks sinkmusic, justin3am & whyterabbyt :)
Since I no longer have a studio space and my stuff spills out of a closet into the living room and kitchen, it stands a better chance of being tolerated if it at least looks 'ornamental'. :lol:

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knockman wrote: Sun Aug 26, 2018 12:13 pm I've had several builds on the go these past few months and made a concerted effort to finish off a handful. Still a few more yet to complete but I just finished a dual ADSR module that means I can make more sense of what I've got so far :)

Here's the latest stuff:
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Drum sequencer - combines Look Mum No Computer's Big Button with a Wav Trigger. I extended the Wav Trigger's SD card slot to make it accessible from the front in order to swap out different drum kits. Also made it patch-able and built a 'trigger box' that plugs into my Korg SAS-20 so I can access its individual drum sounds. Big thanks to aciddose for helping me on this in another thread :tu:
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A dual ADSR with trigger to gate converter
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ADSR 1 is Arduino based: http://m0xpd.blogspot.com/2017/02/signa ... duino.html
ADSR 2 is from Practical Electronics (Jan 1979). Paul in the Lab kindly posted a scan online: https://paulinthelab.blogspot.com/2015/03/
The trigger to gate converter is just a 555 circuit. Here's the guts:
Image

Next up, a case for these modules - they can easily be swapped in and out, being held snug by strips of neoprene rubber.
Image
At the bottom is another Look Mum No Computer project - an Arduino based step sequencer

Finally, here's a video of this stuff in action - hooked up to a tangible waves AE Modular, plus a few other bits and pieces (apologies as it goes on a bit):
https://youtu.be/muNjadeoYk8

Still to finish building - a couple more filters and some buffered multiples.

Cheers
Monstrously awesome! :D

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DesolationRow65 wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:12 pm Monstrously awesome! :D
Thanks!

Here's another recent build:
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it's a "Hougaku Conductor" (a Japanese music keyboard thing) triggered by a 16 step sequencer via a patchwire interface. The sequencer is unit uses 3 4017 ICs - 1 for clock divider and 2 for the steps

here's a video:
https://youtu.be/wHUvSyXlbXk

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