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lzx Video Synth - 110 Counter module

November 30, 2018, 3:10 pm
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These are some build pics of my DIY LZX 110 counter module.
It's part of the Castle series of digital modules designed by Philip Baljeu of Toronto.

I am in no way affiliated with LZX. These are pics to help me (and others) to trouble shoot.
Other modules in the Castle series are:

LZX - Castle
Introduction
00_000 ADC - Analog to digital converter
01_001 DAC - Digital to Analog converter
02_010 Clock VCO
03_011 Shift Register
04_100 Multi Gate
05_101 Quad Gate
06_110 Counter
07_111 Flip flops

One of the great things about building these modules is that the schematics are included.



It's described thus:
"The Counter is a 4-Bit clock counter/divider. Each successive output from Q0 to Q3 is half the frequency of the previous."

It also generates a sequence of numbers in binary counting order from 0000 to 1111 (0-15) in response to the level changes of a single clock input. After the counter reaches 1111 the next clock pulse will return it to 0000. At the end of the count (when it reaches 1111), there is a output pulse at RCO.

The Counter will take an oscillator signal from the vidiot and give you four divided outputs. /2, /4, /8, /16. And a fifth output that puts out a pulse when the counter has reached the last number in its count.(Philip)

Finally when used in conjunction with the Clock VCO and the DAC , waveforms can be synthesized.

The Counter module uses a inexpensive SN74HC191N -- it's a TTL Counter/Multiplier/divider logic IC.
It has 4-bit synchronous, reversible, up/down binary counters.





Links
+ ADC overview - LZX
+ LZX industries
+ CMOS
+ TTL chips
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LZX - Cortex & Castle quad gate patches

December 1, 2018, 11:52 pm
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The Castle quad gate is a very cool addition to the LZX Modular.
This is my first patch using the gate. I'm still finding my way around these modules so do let me know if you have any better patch ideas.
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The Gate has 4 inputs (A1,B1 & A2,B2)  and 4outs.
I multed the Lumen out from the VC. ... the first one out went into the ADC& the second to B2.
The 3 outs from the ADC were plugged into A1,B1 & A2.
Three outs were taken from the Quad Gate and plugged into channel 2 of the V Cortex.


Links
+ ADC overview - LZX
+ LZX industries 
+ Bit numbering
+ CMOS
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December 9, 2018, 2:00 am
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LZX Patches - Castle Shift register - module 011

December 9, 2018, 2:13 am
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Some additional patch notes for using the LZX 011 shift register module.
This is a DIY module in Eurorack format.
The patch is a basic experiment using this module. Please let me know if you have any other patches worthy to document.


The lumen out of the Visual cortex  is going into the input of the ADC module.
The ADC has 3 outputs. Take one of these (experiment with each as each has a different feel)
and plug into the shift register input. Clock the shift register with the VCO clock module .
The three outs of the shift register are plugged back into the VC (channel B)..... thats it!






LZX - Castle
Introduction
00_000 ADC - Analog to digital converter
01_001 DAC - Digital to Analog converter
02_010 Clock VCO
03_011 Shift Register
04_100 Multi Gate
05_101 Quad Gate
06_110 Counter
07_111 Flip flops

Links
+ LZX Shift register patch 1
+ LZX industries
+ Vimeo - video
+ CMOS 
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Castle Patching 001

December 11, 2018, 2:43 am
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This is a patch I read about on the LZX community site.
https://community.lzxindustries.net/t/castle-patching-001-digitizing-luma-video-sources/746

The aim is to digitize a video source and create a posterize effect.


It's really simple.
I'm using the visual cortex to input the video. It is a luma source.
It's also supplying a sync signal to to the Cadet I.
If you don't have a Visual Cortex, use a Cadet III for the video input. 

"The Gain control on the ADC goes from non-inverted on the left through zero to inverted on the right. Set the gain to around 9 o’clock. Adjust the Bias control on the ADC " (PBalj)


Patch 001a




The Luma input is plugged into the Castle ADC.
The ADC's 3 outputs are plugged into the 3 inputs of the DAC.
And the single Lumin output of the DAC goes into the Cadet II (RGB encoder)
The Cadet II is an output module.
It has 3 inputs ... red , green & blue. Plugging the lumin input into each colour will give the corresponding colour out.


If you plug the lumin into a mult and put each out into the R,G & B input you will get a B/W image.




LZX - Castle
Introduction
00_000 ADC - Analog to digital converter
01_001 DAC - Digital to Analog converter
02_010 Clock VCO
03_011 Shift Register
04_100 Multi Gate
05_101 Quad Gate
06_110 Counter
07_111 Flip flops


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Plumbutter 2 - repairing faulty jacks

December 27, 2018, 11:44 pm
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Hi, this is a quick reference to a post made back in 2016 by my mate Paul (Cobramatic/Allinaire).
https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=169993 

I first experienced Paul's Plumbutter back in 2016. Here is the link:
https://djjondent.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-sound-waves-synth-meet-sunday-26.html
It was a New Sound Waves meeting in Redfern Sydney 

Here is a video from that meeting:


The mixer is a zone DB4.
Excellent effects !!!!
As you can see, this is one of the rare dual Plumbutter 2's
I love the Ciat Lonbarde concept... beautiful is somewhat mysterious. But this is part of its beauty.


Back to the repair.
two jacks ... actually many of the jacks wern't working.
Much of the initial prob was that the mysterious nature makes it difficult to know if the prob is technicial or a user error.

this is part of the muffs article:

"Hi All, I’m relatively new to the Plumbutter world but I wanted to share my initial experience with others because the simple repair work I did this weekend has just brought a whole new life to my PB2.

Basically, like everybody else, it takes some time to figure out what is happening when you are patching. I mean the instrument is well known for its unpredictability compared to so called ’traditional’ synths – this is clearly part of its charm and appeal. I totally get that. That’s why you get one!

Tricky thing is – when an instrument is known for its quirkiness then how do you know something is actually working as it is intended to?? I mean, other than reading all the posts and watching some of those amazing videos by many of the Wigglers here, I had no clue to start with. Then as I started to understand I wondered why some things didn’t do what I might have hoped they would...

For example – you would expect those purple FM inputs to give you some type of FM modulation when a jack is plugged in – but because the knob already changes the sound on its own, and differently depending on the direction of turn, I couldn’t be sure I was getting a result. Basically I wasn’t getting a result!"


Rollz – I knew I should be able to mix things up with the browns to effect the rhythms if I connected them together – but for me several of them did nothing when connected. Blue Verso and Inverso jacks – ditto there, some of them seemed to do nothing no matter how hard I tried with them

For a while I thought it was me, then I noticed that some jacks responded if I wiggled them juuuust right, or pushed the nana in part way only. So finally I decided to take things apart and have a look. 


 It is very easy on the PB2 to unscrew all the front screws and then just pop out the front section and PCB from the base to reveal the board in all its glory. If you look at the picture here you can see that the soldering looks fine on the Jack I'm pointing to - Nope, actually there is no electrical connection. The reality is I had at least 8 (yes EIGHT !!) jacks that were not connecting properly thru to the PCB ring around each hole. Presumably a cold or cracked joint? 






 I pulled out the multimeter and soldering iron and tested every one and resoldered the faulty jacks – it was easy as pie to do. Put it all back together and it works like a dream come true – suddenly things work like I wanted them too. 


Motto of the story – if you are having any of the problems I described, or if any of your in's or out's don't seem to respond - then don’t be afraid to pop it open and fix it yourself. I can’t believe how much more fun I’m having now.





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I dont personally own a ciat lonbarde but am considering getting one soon.
The Tetrax looks like a good entry point;




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Links
Ciat-Lonbarde
Plumbutter Manual
Plumbutter - C-L
Muffs
mUFFS 2
Ciat Lonbarde - Paper Circuits

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Popular Integrated Circuits

December 29, 2018, 6:52 pm
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I've been experimenting a lot lately with CMOS ICs and was asked the question by one reader which chips should he buy for his war chest?
This lead me to ask the question "which are the most popular ICs?"

Here is a list of not just CMOS chips, but other chips I commonly reorder & use in my
DIY projects (and for the electronic history buffs, chips that I think changed the world).
You probably won't ever need to buy the old microprocessor chips, but its fun to see how
things develop over the years.

The list will probably change over time.
Let me know if you think I have missed any important chips.

1. 555 Timers. The 556 is a dual 555.
    The Signetics NE555 was nvented in 1971 by Hans Camenzind.  More than a million are sold every year.
    The 555 is a simple IC that can function as a timer or an oscillator.

2. 741 & LM324 op-amps
    The 741 was invented in 1968. It requires both positive and negative voltage.
    The LM324 was introduced in 1972 & consists of four separate op-amp circuits
    The LM324 doesn’t require a bipolar power supply.

3. Texas Instruments 5400 & 7400 logic family (these have been in production since 1964)
     TTL -- transistor transistor logic.74-series logic is such a important part of today's digital world.

4. 78xx / 79xx voltage regulators.

5. The 40XX CMOS family

6. µA723 linear regulator (Bob Widlar, Fairchild, 1967)

7. Fairchild Semiconductor μA741 Op-Amp (1968).
   Designer: David Fullagar

8. Texas Instruments TMC0281 Speech Synthesizer (1978).
    The TMC0281 was the world's first single-chip speech synthesizer  

9. Intel 4004.
    The world's first microprocessor. This led to the famous 8080 CPU and then
    the IBM PC's 8088, 80286, 486 etc.

10.  Intel 8088 Microprocessor (1979).
       It's a 16 bit CPU that established what is today known as the x86 architecture.
      Almost all the world’s PCs are built around CPUs that can claim the 8088 as an ancestor.


11. MOS Technology 6502 Microprocessor (1975)
      It's the main brains of computers like the Apple I & II, the Commodore PET, and game
      systems like the Nintendo and Atari.

12. Zilog Z80 microprocessor. This was used in many home computers of the early 1980s
      like the Dick Smith System 80 which was my first computer.
      The z80 CPU is an 8-bit microprocessor (1976)
      It was also common in military applications, musical equipment,
      such as synthesizers, and in the computerized coin operated video games of the
      late 1970s and early 1980, the arcade machines or video game arcade cabinets.

13. Texas Instruments TMS32010 Digital Signal Processor (1983)

14.  Intersil ICL8038 Waveform Generator (circa 1983).
      The chip generates sine, square, triangular, sawtooth, and pulse waveforms
      It's used in the Moog Synth. It's great for DIY function generators and theremins.

15. Acorn Computers ARM1 Processor (1985)
      More than 10 billion ARM cores have been  manufactured over the decades.
      It's used in all sorts of equipment including one of Apple’s  iPhone.

16.Toshiba NAND Flash Memory (1989).
      Designer: Masuoka-san.
      NAND flash is found everywhere... USB drives, caneras, smartphones, etc etc

17. Microchip Technology PIC 16C84 Microcontroller (1993)
      The PIC 16C84, used a new type of memory called EEPROM
      (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory).

      You will find this type of memory used in lots of drum machines from the 90's



This is by no means a full or comprehensive list of important or useful ICs. There are many more to list.
 
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Resistor arrays

December 30, 2018, 8:25 am
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I'm in the process of building a logic circuit that called for the use of a resistor array.
There was no BOM so I was left to try to work it out myself.
What is a resistor array & why would you use one?

They appear to be a network of fixed resistors set to a specific value.
The value can't be changed.

As Ive discovered you can also have arrays of diodes & capacitors. !!! Wow !!!


Above is a resistor array. Below is a diode array.
Notice they all share a common connection.


Usually, they don't come in these formats.
They come in packages like this:
There is usually a dot at one end which indicates the common terminal.
They come in many different configurations.. series, parallel, etc etc.

There is a code for identifying resistor network values:


I just purchased the A09 104 on ebay. This is a series array of 100K resistors.
A09 : A=series, 09 = 9 pins, 104 = 100K


Resistor arrays are very useful if you need a network of resistors all connected to one piont.
(EG: 8 pull-down resistors, each connecting microcontroller pins to a common ground).

So if you can't find the array you need, it looks like you can build it, if you know its specs..

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Happy New Year

January 3, 2019, 11:00 pm
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I spent New Years Eve at Luna Park, on Sydney Harbour.





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May 2019 be a good one for everyone with lots of electronic Music


and Sausage Dogs


Meet Frankie-Bunnings:




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Ciat Lonbarde _ Gerassic Organ

January 3, 2019, 11:20 pm
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My first build for 2019.
The Ciat Lonbarde Gerassic Organ.


This is what is called a "Paper Circuit".
iTS  a Dual Organ.
Here are some links for paper circuits.
http://ciat-lonbarde.net/paper/

More Links:
http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/TIMARACURRICULUM/TIMARATERIALS/cirques/index.html


Totally DIY . I'm trying to avoid using any "traditional" PCB materials.
Art meets Electronics


The PCB design is a beautiful, organic creature. Totally divorced from the grid like PCBs I'm used to.
The plan is to use transparent perspex to hold everything together.
You could easily build this on some perf board but you wouldn't be able to see the connections.

The 4067b is a digitally controlled analog switch.
It's a 16 channel CMOS analog multiplexer.


There are 4 binary control inputs (A,B,C,D) and a inhibit input, arranged so that any combination of the inputs selects one switch.



PNP's = BC557 (x3) ... identified by the "+"
NPN's = BC547 (x1)... identified by the "-"
Diodes = 1N4001 (x3)
Pots = B100K (x16)   .... mouser- part number 531-pt6kv-100k
Momentary switches (x3)

Pluck length Attack resistor X = 47K to 470K
Might use a rotary switch (1P6T)
47K,100K, 150K, 200K, 300K,  470K  ???
or a A500K pot


Hairy Capacitor * = 0.001uF to 10uF ??
0.001uF code 102 ....high treble?
0.01uF code 103 ....treble
0.1uf code 1004 ... bass
1uf ...sub-bass
10uF ... sub-sub bass
The hairy capacitor is for tuning.... might use a rotary switch to pick the capacitor value.
 1P6T rotary switch ???
Add an  additional variable tuning capacitor in parallel.?



 Final Capacitance = C1+C2+C3....+C10 etc etc



Waiting for parts.......To be continued....

Links
+ CMOS


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RIP Alan R. Pearlman

January 7, 2019, 2:53 pm
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A good innings.
He can stand shoulder to shoulder alongside the likes of Don Buchla & Bob Moog.

Alan was born in NYC in 1925. He worked for NASA and served in the US military before founding ARP instruments ( (originally Tonus, Inc.) in 1969. He designed amplifiers for NASA's Gemini and Apollo programs


ARP shaped the early development of analog Synths.
These 2500 & 2600 synths were and still are among the greatest synthesizers ever made.
I love both these instruments. Though many describe the 2500's matrix as unreliable, I wish more manufacturers wold adopt this technology. It really makes the 2500 special.

The 2600 was produced from 1971 until 1982. Instead of the matrix, it used traditional patchords.
The synth has preset internal connections so users can get sounds out of it & play it straight away without any knowledge of modular synthesis or patching.

These internal connections are broken when a patch cable is inserted, making this synth 100% modular. This was I think one of the earliest if not the first time such a idea was implemented.  It's so common these days and most people don't give it a second thought. Alan was a true pioneer.

A great sequencer !!!

The ARP Little Brother was meant to be a companion to the 2600.


These are battery powered modules (9V DC). They were intended to educate kids.
The modules helped to teach me be the basics of synthesis.


The ARP Avatar guitar synthesizer.

Thank you Alan.
(June 7, 1925 – January 6, 2019)
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Caterina Barbieri - Masters Of Modern Sound

January 12, 2019, 12:32 am
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Masters Of Modern Sound - AGNSW

January 12, 2019, 1:43 am
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An awesome exhibition. There is one more day to see this music/painting combo.
I saw this last night.




The program:

Shchukin, Matisse, Dance & Music

This multimedia installation is by Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway.
Shchukin comissioned the paintings Dance & Music for his Moscow residence in 1910.
They are now in the collection of the Hermitage.
The dancers are from the Dutch National Ballet and music by Italian composer Luca D’Alberto,

I enjoyed all the performances esp Caterina Barbieri
http://djjondent.blogspot.com/2019/01/caterina-barbieri-masters-of-modern.html

If you miss the performances, there are still these masterpieces to see.
Some of my fav pieces:
Cézanne, Fruit 1879/80; oil on canvas, 46.2 x 55.3 cm, Inv GE 9026, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Kandinsky


Sonia Delaunay-Terk’s illustration of Blaise Cendrars' text



Othon Friesz - Roofs & Rouen Cathedral, 1908

Henri Matisse

Black Square (1932)
I wish there was more Malevich.Can't get enough of this guy.



Corin Illeto, Becky Sui Zhen & Casey Hartnett performed surrounded by masterpieces of the Hermitage.



You can see the Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage till March 3rd, 2019.



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Top 40 Synth Blogs

January 17, 2019, 4:37 am
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Wow, thanks to everyone who voted for me and helped put me on this list.
It's a great honor. Cheers Jono

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Teenage engineering - They have gone modular

January 18, 2019, 2:54 pm
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I was surprised and delighted to see this today.
I'm a big fan of this Swedish company.

The teenagers have got a new series of synths out.
Beautiful Scandinavian designs.
Their website describes this as the poor man's modular but I can see these being sold in art galleries.

The System 400 (as my friend Justin pointed out) harks back to the EMS Synthi E
And I think the similarities are more than just its colour

The Synthi E was designed for education, and I feel that these new TE synths will open up the world of modulars to a much wider audience.


The flat pack idea reminds me of  IKEA. Another Swedish company... who are known for selling good, minimalist designed products at affordable prices.

As far as I can tell from the manual, the patch cables are 3,5mm but the module size is their own format (not Eurorack).

The 400 has  3 OSCILLATORS, NOISE, RANDOM GENERATOR, 2 ENVELOPES, 2 VCA'S, LFO, FILTER, MIXER, SPEAKER BOX, POWER PACK AND A 1–16 STEP SEQUENCER.

THE COMPLETE KIT COMES WITH CHASSIS,16 MODULES, 15 PATCH CABLES.

It doesn't look like you can move these modules around within the system.
The kit comes with a flat metal face (reminds me of my old Meccano set) where you bend (the edges) to make the case...

The modules are then screwed onto the back of the face ??


The other two synths released are the 170 & the keyboard

The 170 is a analog monophonic synth with step sequencer. It costs $349USD and includes a chassis, nine modules and eight patch cables.
The modular membrane keyboard has tuneable keys and a step sequencer. It seems to be designed for use with the 400 & 170 model... and hopefully will conform to Eurorack CV/ gate standards

The module dimensions are here.

The TE system uses M2 screws., 5mm spacing mount holes. Module dimensions are 30x90 for a 6HP module. ie the height is 90mm which is approximately 2U

Euro specs are M3 screws, 5.08 mm spacing mount holes, and a 3U height.

But the PSU  is compatable ... both +/-12V

I hope this is the first of many future module additions. Maybe a case that allows for free placement of the modules..... I can see this system expanding 

Links:
Teenage Engineering

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NewSoundWaves - next meeting on the 10th Feb, 2019

January 18, 2019, 4:08 pm
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Our next Synth meeting will be held on Sunday the 10th Feb 2019.
This is something to look forward to:
An evening with This Is Not Rocket Science
3pm - 7pm.
 

Location : 107 Projects
107 Redfern St Redfern.

Bring your synths, play and meet. Lots of fun !

TINRS (this is not rocket science) will hopefully be there (all the way from Holland) and you will get a chance to see some module demos & chat with their creators.

For more info check out the FB page
https://www.facebook.com/newsoundwaves/

An evening with This Is Not Rocket Science
 https://www.facebook.com/events/544919402680384/?active_tab=about

TINRS website

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Lorre-Mill U Tone build notes

January 19, 2019, 8:37 pm
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Some pics of my build of the U-tone diy synth.
Looks like a cool way to learn about CMOS ICs.

Lorre Mill make the wonderful Double Knot synth.


"The utone circuit uses CMOS logic, a resistor ladder, and a few other simple pieces to create audio forms. The scale inherent in this instrument is the undertone series, giving divisions of the main clock frequency."

Only the PCB is supplied



I'm not sure how I will eventually encase the synth.
I may end up incorporating this into a larger project.

tHE CMOS ICs used are a CD4046BE & two CD4015BEs

The CD4046BE is a PLL (Phase Locked Loop)
The CD4015 is a Counter Shift Registers, Dual 4-Stage




Waiting on some parts... to be continued.................

Links:
Muffs
Official - Lorre Mill
CMOS & Lunetta Synths



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A tale of two computers - CSIRAC and Tec-1

January 21, 2019, 12:10 pm
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This is a story of two Australian inventions that I think are worth remembering
as they both have a part to play in the evolution of electronic music.
One so big it will fill your house (if you possessed it). The other a fraction of its size that you can build yourself.

The first is CSIRAC.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRAC-Pano,-Melb.-Museum,-12.8.2008.jpg
jjron [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], from Wikimedia Commons

CSIRAC  stands for Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer).
This was originally known as CSIR Mk 1. It was Australia's first electronic programmable digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world.  She ran her first program in 1949 which makes her 70 years old this year.

I first saw this machine at the Melbourne Museum in 2016. (sadly no pics) . You can today pay her a visit at the Scienceworks centre, also in Melbourne.  (Maybe take her a birthday cake)

 CSIRAC is the oldest surviving first-generation electronic computer(The Zuse Z4 at the Deutsches Museum  in Germany is older, but was electro-mechanical, not electronic). CSIRAC was constructed by a team of scientists led by Trevor Pearcey Geoff Hill and Maston Beard. Though it had but a fraction of the brain power of your average smart phone it was a revolution in its day.

In addition to being used for things like weather forecasting and banking,  CSIRAC was the first computer in the world to play digital music. This took place during Australia’s first computer conference in June 1951. The tune was Colonel Bogey, . Sadly there are no recordings.


The second Computer we are looking back at is the TEC-1

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tec-1_Z80_Computer.jpg
Otherunicorn [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons


 It is a single-board kit computer first produced by the Australian hobbyist electronics magazine Talking Electronics in the early 1980s.The design by John Hardy and Ken Stone was based on the Zilog Z80 CPU.

If you are a regular reader of this blog you will probably know who Ken Stone is. The founder of Cat Girl Synths (CGS).

Th TEC-1 used a  Zilog Z80 CPU, had 2K of RAM and 2K of ROM in a default configuration.

Those twenty round keys on the right are the main input. They are made up of 16 hexadecimal keys for numeric inputs and address, a GO key to execute a program, + and - keys,

This is the original prototype.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Original_TEC1_Prototype.jpg
Binarysequence [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

The TEC-1 was first featured in 1983, in Volume 1, Issue 10 of the Talking Electronics magazine, pages 57 to 75. I plan to build one of these and will document it in a future blog and hopefully use it to play a tune or two ... maybe Colonel Bogey.

It the 1984 issue of Talking Electronics magazine,  (Volume 1, Issue 11, pages 11 to 36, and pages 50 to 55) are two peripherals designed by Ken Stone for the TEC-1 -an 8x8 matrix display, and a relay driver board. These allow the TEC-1 to be interfaced to other equipment.

Notes:
+ Colossus (1943) was the first electronicdigitalprogrammable computing device, and was used to break German ciphers during World War II. In December 1943, Colossus was shipped to Bletchley Park, where it was delivered on 18 January 1944and attacked its first message on 5 February. Colossus included the first ever use of shift registers and systolic arrays, enabling five simultaneous tests, each involving up to 100 Boolean calculations, on each of the five channels on the punched tape.
A reconstructed working copy of one of the Colossus machines is now on display at Bletchley Park.

+ ENIAC (1945) (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic programmable computer built in the US. ENIAC was the first Turing-complete electronic device, and performed ballistics trajectory calculations for the United States Army.


Links:
Facebook - Tec-1 Z80 computer


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Custom Buchla modules - Synovatron

January 21, 2019, 6:59 pm
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I'm finally getting around to building some half size Buchla modules.
This first one is a Euro to Buchla trigger converter.

I commissioned  these from Tony at Synovatron back in 2014.
Tony supplied the kits and two fully built modules.
The built modules are awesome. I use them all the time.
I'm putting together a second Buchla performance case and thus my need to get these kits built.

Links:
Tone's synth Projects
Tones synth - more buchla to euro translators

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NLC Motherload for 2019

January 22, 2019, 4:48 pm
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These should keep me busy and out of mischief for some of 2019.
They are part of Andrews creations of 2018.


I'm trying to build at least one version of every Nonlinearcircuit module.

Signum Hyperchaos
GENiE - GEneralized Nonlinear Extrapolator
SPASM - LDR controlled jerk chaos
(bad) Digital Filter Simulator
Balter - Dual VC Gate Delay
The Big Room (Reverb)
Dual LPG
Noiro-ze VCF & VCA
Shat-noir Phaser
Mogue mixer & VCA
It's 555 .... resonator (Eurorack version)
Kareishuu VCO
STATUES
Ian Fritz's Hypster
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