Peter Zinovieff
It's a sad day.Just heard the news that Peter Zinovieff passed away.He was one of the great synth inventors and designers.Up there along with Bob Moog, Alan Pearlman, and Don Buchla. The Beatles,...
View ArticleJulia Bondar: studio recording fragment from upcoming album
..Very Cool.It's so refreshing to hear danceable electronic music.Hopefully more artists like Julia, come to Australia when the borders open.
View ArticleMoog Subharmonicon - patches A
Some beginner patches with the Moog Subharmonicon.These are from the manual. It's a really enjoyable synth, with lots of surprises. Patch 1 called Aquatic Chords connects seq 1 to the filter cutoff...
View ArticlePort Arthur - Tasmania
Some Pics of Port Arthur in Tasmania. It's a beautiful place in the world, however it's past is coloured with much pain and suffering.The Island of the Dead, Port Arthur cemetery. Sitting on the...
View ArticleNLC - Beat Freq - build notes - part 1
These are my build notes for the NLC Beat frequency module.This is a indicator module not an oscillator.Beat frequency indicators are used to indicate whenever the frequency of a signal exceeds a...
View ArticleAlesis Andromeda - The Clock, Arpeggiator & Sequencer
This is part of my exploration of the Andromeda synth.It's a wonderful synthesizer, which even after owning it for over 5 years I'm still just scratching the surface of what it can do. Some links to...
View ArticleNLC VCAs - build notes - part 1
Some build notes for the Nonlinear Circuits VCAs module.Looks like a pretty straight forward build. This is quite a compact module, packing 3 VCAs into 8 HP.Should match nicely with Andrew's Triad -...
View ArticleNebula Award winners - Best Novel - 1990s
1990 Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Published 1990 (Atheneum Books)Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)Pages 226Award Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel...
View ArticleBeat Frequency - NLC - Build notes - part 2
This is part 2 of my build notes for the NLC Beat freq module.Part 1 is hereBeat Freq - build notes - part 1 The module is in Eurorack format.It's a CV and Gate generator. You input two signals -...
View ArticleHappy 707 day
The Roland TR 707 is classic 80's Roland drum machine. It has great sounds, is super easy to program, has individual outputs, a mixer section for on the fly action and runs off batteries. So it's...
View ArticleEndorphin.es Terminal - function generators & LPGs
I just received this in the mail. It's an Endorphin.es Terminal.I think they were first produced in 2013 ??? This module is now discontinued and replaced with the Grand Terminal. Though the original...
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Playimg around with the DinSync 303 filter.Sounds great.The Endorphin.es Terminal is the old model .. just a buchla style LPG The output of the Terminal is patched into the VCF 303 filter I'm using...
View ArticleNLC VCAs - part 2 - build notes
You can never have enough VCAs, .... so the saying goes.This was quite an easy build. Plus its compact -- 3 VCAs in 8 hp.Each VCA has two CV inputs which is handy.The official build notes are...
View ArticleKorg Midi Synchronizer - KMS 30
This is a useful and pretty rare piece of kit from the 1980s. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Synth Keyboard Repair (@elk_elektronik)Made in Japan, its great for clocking old gear .. esp...
View ArticleNLC - Digital Filter Simulator - Build notes - part 1
These are my build notes for the NLC Digital Filter Simulator. It's a nonlinear circuits eurorack module.12HP wideIt's mostly an analog circuit using CMOS and op-amps.Audio is fed into a 4-bit A/D...
View ArticleKORG KPR-77 Drum - getting started tutorial
This is a basic getting started manual on the Korg KRP 77 programmable Rhythm.It's one of my favorite drum machines. Quite underrated and still affordable. It came out in 1983 and was Korg's answer to...
View ArticleNLC Cellular Automata - Build notes - part 1
These are my build notes for the nonlinear circuits Cellular Automata module. This is a 16 cell gate and pattern generator using cellular automata rules 90 & 150. Rules 30, 90 & 150 appear to...
View ArticleHappy TR-727 day
It's the 27th of JulyA great reason for breaking out the Roland TR 727 The drum was released in 1985. It's the Latin version of the 707. It's very much to Roland's credit that they had the courage...
View ArticleDigital Filter Build - NLC - Part 2
This is part two of my Digital Filter Build.It's a Nonlinear Circuits module in Eurorack format.The first part of the build can be found here:Digital Filter Simulator - Build notes - part 1This is the...
View ArticleNan Tang - Compilation: Buchla 200e live set @at the moment
... Nice work Nan Compilation: Buchla 200e live set @at the moment by tamiX
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