Built a nifty clone of a Synare analog drum circuit, triggering it with a Hart Dynamics Pro Snare and also featuring the Dusic (Deaf Music Cube) which is visualizing the sound of the synth with sound-reactive LEDs mapped to different frequencies. Finally the audio out is running into a Sommatone […]
Daily Archives: Wednesday 24th July, 2013
I love looking through old (i.e. 1980s) synthesizer and keyboard manuals. I am sure no matter how excited Yamaha’s employees are about a particular model, they must get a bit bored sometimes when writing manuals. The cure? Inject some humour into the proceedings. Take the mid-1980s B200 digital synthesizer. This […]
Here are the “special effects” on my Scotch Box Synthesizer. Demonstrated first is the capacitor; where one button produces sounds from it draining and the other from it charging. Then is the “Special effects Generator” which produces a rhythmic effect. Then the “Stepped Tone Generator” or “Atari Punk Console” which […]
3rd Synth project and a remake of the 556 utilising “Atari Punk Console” chip. Used a 2.2k electrolytic capacitor and a 1k ohm resistor as they seemed to work better than what I used last time. Bit more stable but I don’t know why. Getting the hang of things a […]