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New Sound Waves - Sunday 12th July Meeting
I had the best Sunday ever.Lot's of synths and good friends.Above is a Buchla 200/ 200e - Thanks Paul. Monome + Euro = :-)New Sound Waves live at 107 Projects,Redfern St, Redfern. Sydney, Australia.We...
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Kilpatrick Phenol & NLC Divine CMOS
This circuit uses some good old CMOS 4000 chips. To be specific they are 4070s althoughthe logic chip can also be a 4081, 4077 or a 4001.[The CD4070 contain four independent (XOR) Exclusive-OR gates]....
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The αρπ Filter (alpha-rho-pi) with a kilpatrick Phenol
The αρπ Filter (alpha-rho-pi) of NLC sounds great. .... very much like the diode ladder used in the Roland TB 303It's actually a hybrid/variation of the vintage Electronotes and ARP designs. Hard to...
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R.I.P. Dieter Moebius
R.I.P. Krautrock Pioneer Dieter Moebius.It's a sad day. The world has lost one of the pioneers of electronic music. Dieter Moebius was born 1944 in Switzerland. He first studied art in Brussels and...
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Function Generator - LZX Industries build pics & notes
These are my build notes for the Function Generator of LZX Industries. It's a nice easy build. The kit is only $99 (including components).The FG is a non-linear amplifier that produces an output...
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Karnak Temple - Luxor - Egypt
This is the second largest ancient religious site in the world, after the Angkor Wat Temple of Cambodia.It's a vast site full of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings.Most of the extant...
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NLC Neuron & Difference Rectifer - build notes
The NonLinearCircuit Neuron module is facinating and unlike any module I have come acrossso far in modular synthesizers. It's not a chaos module but instead acts like a neuron which is thecore...
View ArticleWhere to find components for your projects - Shopping Carts
One of the most tedious tasks when module building is sourcing components.Months later you've forgotten where you bought that SMD resistor, or the 9mm PCB mounted pot.So to keep frustration levels as...
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Scanimate Matrix Switch Panels
I am lucky today to have finally received two remnants of the venerable Scanimate machine.It's part of a early analog computer that was used in animation. From what I've read, there were only 8...
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NLC - Buchla Style - Low Pass Gate (LPG) Build notes.
These are the build notes for the NLC version of one of the classic filters of all time: the Buchla 292.The 292 configuration consisted of 4 filters with CV control & a 3 pole toggle switch for...
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I came across an old ARP sales brochure from 1971.The prices back then seemed so reasonable. :-)$5927 for a complete system comprising 7 modules, a 3001 three voice keyboard & 2002 cabinet.Awesome...
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Arturia Beatstep Pro sequencing a SH101 & D-1000
What a handy sequencer this puppy is.The Beatstep Pro claims to be able to sequence almost everything. ... & I think Arturia might be onto something. The Metasonix D-1000 drum isn't the easiest...
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EML 300 - 301 Manual Controller
I received a email recently requesting more info & pics about the EML 300.This is a very unusual controller. It was manufactured in the early 70s by Electronic Music Labs of Vernon, Connecticut....
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Cuba - Manaca Iznaga estate - Sugar & Slaves
Manaca Iznaga Estate is today part of a UNESCO world heritage region called Valley de los Ingenios or Valley of the Sugar Mills.It's part ofa series of three interconnected valleys (San Luis, Santa...
View ArticleADSR 312 - NLC Build notes
The Nonlinearcircuits ADSR312 module is based on the Aires 312 envelope generator.Aires was a Massachusetts based synth manufacturer from the 1970s & early 80s.They produced many of their modules...
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Intellijel Metropolis meets 303
The Metropolis Sequencer is uber cool. Inspired by the Ryk M-185 (a Roland System 100m sequencer)Each stage has slides and a pulse count in the range 1-8. It should provide very interesting...
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Cecil's Revenge
Why the dentist should have spent that 50K on a modular synth.http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/dentist-walter-james-palmer-says-killing-cecil-the-lion-was-legal-20150728-gimlah.html
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4SEQ - NLC Sequencer - Build Notes
The NonLinearCircuit Bindubba 1 & 3 are some of my favourite sequencers. The 4Seq eurorack module combines aspects of both. It has just 4 stages but the direction can be controlled by a gate to go...
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Bools - NLC build notes
These are the build notes for the nonlinearcircuits Bools Eurorack module. It's of course, as the name implies, a Boolean Logic moduleVery useful for generating gates, envelopes, and CVs that can be...
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4seq - Piston Honda & VC 303
The nonlinearcircuits 4SEQ is a 4 stage sequencer with a forwards/backwards control (the u/d or up-down jack) allowing the development of quite complex sequences and patterns.There are two CV outputs...
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