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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:03 pm Post subject:
Thanks very much chaps I am honoured by your compliments oh great and powerful mosc
I have been working on the box today, my hands hurt from bashing the metal I have used all recycled parts, the metal is from an old broken DVD player and I found the wood in skips.
P.S. This thing is getting a metal and wooden case (just like my other devices).
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:22 am Post subject:
Not really, It's just going to look industrial and old. Wood and metal, but nothing really victorian about it.
but keep those eyes peeled (eeeew peeled eyes, gross!) I will make one of them steampunk eventually
I'm still working on this device, I lacked some parts but I might be able to get some. However it may have to wait untill after christmas. Bah humbug.
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:34 am Post subject:
garcho wrote:
Bravo! Nice phaser-y sounds.
The phasery sounds come form the LFO controlled PWM
garcho wrote:
Lunetta death pipes from outer space.
That is it's new name now thankyou very much
Less cryptic and more descriptive videos/photos coming soon! Watch this space!
P.S. eternal salivation could be yours for just £1, act now or don't, the choice isn't yours! _________________ As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"
Glad I could contribute! And they're waaay more musical than death pipes from inner space. Gross! _________________ "The life of a repo man is always intense."
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject:
Inner space?
It's a bit like lunetta, in that one day my synth will look kind of like the controls of that machine _________________ As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:33 am Post subject:
The case is entirely scavenged or second hand parts, old dials from radiogams and old televisions, wood from who knows where and metal from a broken dvd player
P.S. the power connector is two bolts _________________ As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:47 am Post subject:
garcho wrote:
Bravo! It looks like the controls for Mad Max's Lunetta.
I could kiss you! Not only is mad max 3 one of my favorite films but it is definately an influence on the things I build. _________________ As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"
looks great! I especially like how you use the shape of the front plate to your advantage.
Have you considdered building a filter? Or something like a spring reverb?
Although I do like the sound of a raw lunetta, Im always missing the lower end. A good filter and some reverb adds a lot of body to the sound. _________________ There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Hunter S. Thompson movies noise
That is a totally beautiful instrument, and the music is great. i love that you used knobs from a Radiogram, i device of which i have never heard. I thought a radiogram was the measure of the mass of radio waves. Anyway, i love it! _________________ http://soundcloud.com/douglasmseidel
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:07 pm Post subject:
Thankyou chaps
dougseidel wrote:
That is a totally beautiful instrument, and the music is great. i love that you used knobs from a Radiogram, i device of which i have never heard. I thought a radiogram was the measure of the mass of radio waves. Anyway, i love it!
Radio waves don't have mass a radiogram is a cross between a radio and a gramophone.
tjookum wrote:
Have you considdered building a filter? Or something like a spring reverb?
Yes, I intend to eventually, I have some parts and lots of designs on the line up of things to build. _________________ As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:00 am Post subject:
Draal wrote:
"Who run Bartertown? ....Louder can't hear you!"
The Mad Max films are some wild flicks; saw them all as first runs in the theater back in the day.
Okay, okay, Lift Embargo!
But did you see Mad Max: Beyond the Heterodyne? Two waves enter, one wave leaves! _________________ As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:54 am Post subject:
Weirdness indeed. I'm working on a minisynth using the top octave divider found elsewhere in the DIY forum. Nothing, but nothing I've tried has worked right over the past few days (waveshapers, transistor latches) and tonight I got kinda frustrated and fed up. The end result is this. I took the tl072 that I been trying unsuccessfully to get to work as an integrator and wired it up as a quadrature oscillator. That didn't really work right either, but after feeding it inputs from the octave divider, the octave divider running through a 4018 sinewave shaper (which works pretty much as it should, but 4 bit sine waves kinda suck) and a 4069 oscillator I got this and it helped to take the edge off. Note that there shouldn't be -anything- on the left channel, what you hear on the left channel is my poor amplifier letting signal bleed through.
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:06 am Post subject:
Krumbeeperly is a word that comes to mind upon hearing your sounds what exactly does a top octave divider do? _________________ As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:45 am Post subject:
I have a great analogy for the inner workings of a 4040, it involves tiny magical elves of varying heights being electroshock tortured into jumping. I will tell it to you some time.
I put the breadboard away for a week or two while I worked on some stuff using.....premade instruments (hey, my Waldorf missed me). Just broke it back out.
Here are some proof-of-concept sort of noodlings I did testing out using a 4007 as an electrically variable resistor to control a filter. Still need to do much tweaking but I'm fairly overjoyed just that it works. Used the octave divider circuit for the filter's input an a 40106 for the frequency modulation control on the filter, ummm... yay for FM VCF.
(Banana, dancing then possibly exploding).
these are great and rich sounds - that's a cool idea. maybe you can share your implementation - it would be fun to see. _________________ http://soundcloud.com/douglasmseidel
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