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Serial Number
MI invoice number could work as a serial number if you want to engrave it yourself…..

Comment by toadstool April 13 permalink
RIP Pete Namlook :(
... and it has taken me this long to realise how influential he was on my developing interest in electronic music back in the early 90s. RIP Pete…... I’ve also just discovered that VEMIA are handling the sale of some of Pete Namlook’s estate incl…

Comment by toadstool April 6 permalink
Leap Motion
Here’s an open source variant for the builder and hacker in you. For precise 3D depth perception you need more than one camera. This gesture device for mouse input also looks interesting.

Comment by toadstool March 19 permalink
Shruthi live in concert... (with bass clarinet as it happens)
Surely the clarinet player could have been replaced by a synth as well?! ;-) Only joking, what a great piece and I too think it has a really pleasing blend between the acoustic and electronic.

Comment by toadstool March 8 permalink
Ladder Filter for Shruthi
Great work Andre’. I’d just like to express my interest in a PCB if there is a bulk order. The demonstration sounds :-O

Comment by toadstool March 1 permalink
Choosing a new laptop (no "Mac vs PC" troll please) :-S
I envy you yet somehow I don’t :) I’d be in a similar quandary if I had those choices and I agree with your sentiments regarding Apple. Personally, I’d embrace openness and freedom and opt for the Lenovo with GNU/Linux and perhaps Windows 7 dual bo…

Comment by toadstool February 8 permalink
Age Question
Happy Birthday FitVideo! I’ll be 37 in a couple of weeks.

Comment by toadstool February 6 permalink
The Korg Mini-MS-20
Mini MS-20 at NAMM 2013 April(ish) realease?

Comment by toadstool January 25 permalink
Gaming anyone? Freebie offering - DOTA 2
The last time I was a big PC gamer was about 10 years ago when playing Operation Flashpoint, until recently that is…. now I am completely and utterly hooked to DayZ (and ARMA2 depending on my mood). Frankieonpcin1080p’s Youtube videos make for some…

Comment by toadstool January 8 permalink
WTB IR3109 Filterboard PCB
Hey xtinct, I still haven’t built mine and don’t think I ever will. I’ll sell you mine. PM me your details.

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
The final countdown.....
I really, really shouldn’t have but I did. The temptation was too overwhelming. @elhambre : LM13700N edit: doh! wrong chips, I thought the option was for the LM13700N and the Atmega but the filter chip is only an option for the other filter boar…

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
Homemade Ambika
Very awesome work, a thing of beauty and in the true spirit of DIY. Kudos! All this made possible by Olivier’s generosity in making all his hard work open source and freely available. Long live DIY and long live Open Source (and long live Olivier ;…

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
Anushri clock sync and aux audio inputs.
As far as I know, the DR-110 doesn’t have a clock input, only a clock output so it will only work if the drum machine is the master. Even when changing the Anushri divider, the sync is slightly out of step, mainly because it is only when there is a…

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
WTH Am i too late already?
I can’t decide which filter boards to go for…. :-/

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
sacrifice an old poly61?
I agree V’cent, though I don’t know which is more ‘Ouch’ the receiving property back in a broken state or the naive email ;-) Shiftr, here are photos to confirm the part is correct. By the way, I’ve found that if you gently use a soft pencil eras…

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
sacrifice an old poly61?
No problem, glad I could help. :) Talking of my old and broken Poly-800, have a laugh at my expense – the first email I ever sent to anyone. It was to the hyperreal analogue synth mailing list and here is the reply.

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
sacrifice an old poly61?
I’ll send a strip to you for free shiftr. PM me your address. My first ever synth was a Korg Poly-800 – I stupidly lent it to a friend of a friend and it took years to get it back and when I eventually managed to wrestle it off them, I found that s…

Comment by toadstool December 2012 permalink
[NSFW] The one and only gear pr0n thread
Pull the cord on mine and it turns in to the second one of yours. Honest. Oh and does it matter whether she can play or not?

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
[NSFW] The one and only gear pr0n thread
Ummmm… my synth is bigger than yours? (and older!). “The Mutha” is still for sale by the way…... the photo shows a portion of the other side of my synth addiction, old stuff vs modern DIY (MB6582 excepted). Exhibiting them like this, laid bare, I f…

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
Tiny flickering of all values
...apologies, I don’t know what came over me… :{S – severe lack of sleep I think…. I’ll get my coat (again).

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
Tiny flickering of all values
[Not For Sexy Women]? [Not For Snivelling Wampas]? ;-)

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
no sound out of anushri :'(
You should definitely check all the voltages first using the ‘Troubleshooting’ section of the Anushri build pages

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
Website temporarily down
I’ve just corrected my post slightly…. the correct sentence does imply that both clauses enable….. Damn it, now I have become the grammar police which is not what I wanted. I should’ve kept my mouth shut like I planned :|

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
Website temporarily down
:D lol – thank God for MacGyver – has he seen the MidiPal though, the Swiss Army knife of MIDI? ;-) I’m really sorry to flog the grammar horse on the same sentence but without the ‘is’ at the beginning there should be no semicolon. This: “Our…

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
Website temporarily down
Quote from Wikipedia regarding semicolons – “They are mysteriously connected to pausing”. ‘nuff said :)

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
Website temporarily down
No, I think Fitvideo means there should be no ‘and’ after the semicolon – I agonised over this today but decided that the ‘and’ didn’t really matter because I didn’t want to turn the discussion into a debate over the correct usage of what some may …

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
Congratulations! Shruthi-1 is 18th Best HW Synth of the World
It does indeed say a lot for MI and the Shruthi to have it featured in a list dominated by the big brands however, aside from the Shruthi, only the Telemark-k, OP-1 and Minibrute actually caught my attention. A big fat ‘Meh’ to all the others in my…

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
no sound out of anushri :'(
OK, are they definitely both flashing? The top LED of the left-hand vertical line should be permanently lit, the left-hand LED of the top horizontal row should be flashing. If that is so then it sounds like it has booted properly because the synth …

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
no sound out of anushri :'(
Check the orientation of the optocoupler IC 6N137 next to the MIDI sockets. Are any of the LEDs lit or flashing when you power it on?

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink
no sound out of anushri :'(
Did the voltage tests check out? Take all the chips out (except the LT1054) and check the voltage regulators first.

Comment by toadstool November 2012 permalink

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