fleetway76

Where to buy Modular Synth PCBs?
I built up a euro format dual oscillator from 2 MFOS VCO PCBs. It was a gargantuan effort in panel wiring and I made a couple of octave selectors as a daughter board on the back. I made the octave selectors on protoboard from the schematics on the …

Comment by fleetway76 May 14 permalink
Free DAC + ADC (Europe only)
Pm’d

Comment by fleetway76 March 30 permalink
Anushri vco detune pot range
Yeah, that fits more with my experience. Before I set the offset to center on a note, I couldn’t get it the 2 oscillators into tune.

Comment by fleetway76 February 27 permalink
Mutable Gear RackMount Kits
Looks like they might be a bit deep for a Doepfer lc6/9 without at least some angled cables. Pretty cool though

Comment by fleetway76 November 2012 permalink
Mutable Instruments trusted builders
I don’t even know how this would apply, but I think the RoHS laws prohibit the selling of consumer electronics that contain lead. I know how much you guys love you leaded solder. As I said, it might not even be a valid concern, but something to thi…

Comment by fleetway76 November 2012 permalink
Mounting LEDs, flush with the board or raised? What looks best
I just took delivery of the parts for a control board taken from the bom on the relevant page. The LED standoffs that are mentioned there (from farnell) are 10mm long. I am thinking this it too long! Might be a good idea to update the bom with the …

Comment by fleetway76 November 2012 permalink
Cem3379 build page
Just read the comments on the thread about the Roland filter chip petition. I will email Oliver directly. Nothing to see here.

Comment by fleetway76 October 2012 permalink
FS US: XT Wasp Programmer, Dual SVF, Yellow Magic, Eventide, Ambika, and more ... ENTIRE STUDIO
Wow! Beer vs Music, must have been a difficult decision!

Comment by fleetway76 October 2012 permalink
Anushri standard case
yellow

Comment by fleetway76 October 2012 permalink
wtpa2
I think that Todd understimates the demand that there will be for it when it lands

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Electrolube PCB Cleaner recall
I haven’t ever bothered cleaning it off as it would have to happen after the soldering is done and that is the very time you get to power it on and start playing!

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Electrolube PCB Cleaner recall
@fcd72 : I think flux can cause the PCB to degrade over time. At least thats what I was informed. Also it can lead to capacitance between pads

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
What are you guys using for MIDI controllers?
frequencycentral.co.uk do some DIY roland 100M clone bits and pieces. Not sure how similar the 100M circuitry is to the 100 though.

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
What are you guys using for MIDI controllers?
There is loads of DIY stuff available for modular as well but it is generally more in the form of folks doing short runs of PCBs. I have made a dual analogue VCO from a couple of MFOS boards but it took an absolute age as I had to drill the fron…

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Exponential conversion
Thats what I thought. That is a pretty clever solution! In my experience tuning a VCO can be pretty fiddly, but you have provided a means to side step the problem.

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Exponential conversion
@pichenettes So does the VCO auto calibration just sample the vco output pitch and scale the cv it sends to the exponential converter front end to maintain pitch? ie the VCO is basically not tracking 1v per octave, but the pitch (note) to cv conver…

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Exponential conversion
I understand what you are saying. I am not looking for perfect tracking. I was only interested in how the 2164 performed as an exponential converter. I maintain though, that people will expect their synth to basically track well over a few octav…

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Exponential conversion
Is the DCO stuff just in addition to the VCO? Presumably the current charging the integrator has to be broadly related to the frequency or you would have amplitude drift.

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Exponential conversion
I hate to say it, I suspect more people would complain about bad tracking than would embrace it. I know what you mean though. It will never be as pin-point accurate as a digital solution and will probably sound better for it.

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Exponential conversion
I more wondered what peoples experiences were. I guess there probably aren’t that many experiences yet though, as no-one has the boards.

Comment by fleetway76 September 2012 permalink
Obsession with gear, something inherent to electronic music?
I dont think it is just a compensatory thing. I have resolved to myself that I enjoy building synths (and bicycles, beer etc.) and ‘playing’ with them as much if not more than seriously making music with them. It used to worry me that that was the …

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
Project for beginners
I got one for my brother as a gift and it was one of his first projects. He managed to get it working with basic soldering tools and got it mounted in the suggested enclosure.

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
Project for beginners
as MicMicMan suggested. I reckon the atari punk console is the perfect introduction. It has everything you need to know and you get something that makes a noise at the end. Also they are pretty easy to come by from multiple vendors. The one from lu…

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
My ceramic cap 100nF for Digital Control board are marked "104 K" not just "104"
Yeah, Capacitor labeling isn’t the most obvious until you know how to interpret it. it means 10 and 4 0’s so that is 100000 and it is the number of pico farrads rather than nano farads. It takes a bit of getting used to.

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
broken tb303 - worth it?
Yeah, it seemed a but incongruous when I read it (the other day). I had only encountered the track for the first time on these forums when Olivier posted it. Weird how life sends you these little coincidences now and again.

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
broken tb303 - worth it?
wikipedia kind of suggests that that is the first acid house track. Or at least proto-acid in its use of 303 and 808 and the nature of the programming

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
[SOLVED] Envelope attack triggering on legato
+1 seems like a more natural approach to remove the discontinuity

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
broken tb303 - worth it?
Yeah, I got my kit from willzyx and the support was great.

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
broken tb303 - worth it?
The 303 sound is pretty cool (I have a x0xb0x) but after having played around with other more flexible synths (like the shruthi), It really seems quite basic – a one trick pony if you will. I would pick up my shruthi before my x0x for most things. …

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink
Broken shruthi [solved]
How did you fix the trace that you cut?

Comment by fleetway76 July 2012 permalink

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