What a great click bait title! And in fact, true! Volca Modular specs in Korg’s manual are not exactly precise, but this is actually a good news. Let me explain: Korg made a great and much explaining manual, but (IMHO) for sake of easiness of understanding, some specs were simplified. Who wants to interact with […]
A friend (the one who menaged to kill few pairs of speakers with my Binaural Beat Generator) asked me if I could add an CV input to his cassette recorder, so he could use it with his modular synth. The answer was: “Yes”. The mod was preformed in a unusual “engineer way”, not the nowadays popular […]
After few years of fight I finally finished my eurorack drum synthesizer. I was very proud of it, till my girlfriend asked: “Why there are empty spaces in your noisy box? You still don’t have enough modules?”. I laughed, made myself hot chocolate and started to cry in the corner. Cure? Blanks. I was […]
Back to 2006 It was year 2006 and my electronic knowledge was extending. I’ve allready build a ICL 7107 voltometer and a dekatron spinner, therefore I felt I can do something really complex. One day I saw a Syntom II, an electronic drum synthesizer project printed in Electronics and Music Maker magazine, (E&MM, 1983). I […]
Around the beginning of October 2015 I’ve got an oportunity to go for a synthmeet to show my new SDSV modules. The problem was I got no PSU or a modular case. I had only a week to DIY something and started with very simple mini PSU project, based on Doepfers A-100 MNT. As I […]
GF: What does this module do? Me: It shows a LEGO figure. GF: And? Me: Thats all. GF: … (gives me that you-have-wasted-a-week-of-your-life look and walks away). I was inspired by Gieskes “non-musical” modules, like “bottle opener” and “do-not-touch”. My module is a small display window with a iluminated LEGO figure. But not the ordinary one. It comes […]
It was back in 2014. Thanks to user hidden behind wutierson nickname I managed to finish digital “metallic” sound generator based on the one used in Simmons SDSV hihat / cymbal drum modules. The story SDSV drum brain was shipped with only 5 modules – bass, snare and 3 toms. Hihat didn’t belong to the […]
Every source needs an outlet. After I build about 10 drum modules, it was time to connect them and make some sounds. The requirements for my first eurorack audio mixer were simple: a lot of inputs without level control, some amplified inputs with level control for low output drum modules, output with level adjustment, output […]
Hip bass drum is project brought to you by Craig Anderton. Compared to other drum circiuits it’s very simple (but unique) design. The schematics scanned form Polyphony, October ’83 can be found all over internet (but if you have any problems getting one, call me). It is hard to find any clear demo of the […]
On Monday I have noticed, I don’t have a TR808 rimshot module in my drum setup. I decided to make one. The research 808 sound modules ale very popular in eurorack world, so the first thing I did was some small research. I found modules from Acidlab (8RS), Analog Soultions (RS88 and CL88) and […]
