Show your Benjolin / Zeitgeist

State Machine · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:14 am Post subject:

Love the rhythmic FX man !!! Thanks for posting that ..

Bill

inlifeindeath · Joined: Apr 02, 2010 Posts: 286 Location: Albuquerque, NM

Here's mine DIY stylee. Thanks for the design and board layout Rob!
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMkp78Dta8I
Sorry for the shotty camera work. I need to start recording these into the sound card or something.

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State Machine · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 7:44 am Post subject:

I love the sequence in the video at 3 MIN 35 SEC. Been meaning to package my Benjolin up to. Cool

Thanks for the video and sounds Very Happy

Bill

inlifeindeath · Joined: Apr 02, 2010 Posts: 286 Location: Albuquerque, NM

Thanks Bill! This thing is so much fun!

fluxmonkey · Joined: Jun 24, 2005 Posts: 686 Location: cleve

new benjolin w/ the sexy red knobs--

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3 jacks & smaller knobs are CV ins for Osc 1,2, and filter. really enjoying the sounds, think it will be a perfect playpal for little boy blue & jealous heart.

casperelectronics · Joined: Feb 13, 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Troy Ny usa

inlifeindeath · Joined: Apr 02, 2010 Posts: 286 Location: Albuquerque, NM

i don't know how i missed that page, but i've been planning on building another one with a lot of the same ideas. i've especially been wanting an option for an external clock on the rungler. thanks for the other ideas, great build!

casperelectronics · Joined: Feb 13, 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Troy Ny usa

textual · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:21 am Post subject: Re: forgot the vid

macumbista · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:27 pm Post subject:

Here's mine, done over Easter weekend. I pulled all the outputs and inputs to bananas, and I'm very happy with the extra self-modulation/chaos possibilities. Also added ground to interface with modular and put red, blue and green LEDs for the Rungler bits. Oh yeah, and a speaker so I can make some money every time I ride the U-Bahn. Videos tomorrow on my website hopefully. Looking forward to building Casper-influenced double-Benjolin modular, or at least some shift-register-based, Rungler-type pseudo-randomizers. Until then...

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macumbista · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:48 am Post subject:

cryptography (study I) from macumbista on Vimeo.

The "Cryptography Studies" examine the use of simple analog implementations of pseudo-random number generators, akin to those used in encryption algorithms, for the chaotic production of sound patterns. One of the simplest pseudo-random number generators is a three-stage shift register with a non-linear feedback loop, such as that found in Rob Hordijk's "Benjolin" instrument design.

This one was built over Easter weekend 2012 as a starting point for further research on the topic. I have focused on the chaotic zones which occur when new parameters have been set by the controls or feedback patching, before the machine settles into a steady state and predictable pattern.

You can read my extended musings on the relationship of cryptography and music here:

macumbista.net/?p=2697

wilnix · Joined: Feb 27, 2011 Posts: 1 Location: nl

Some nice builds here, mine finally got a proper housing.

I built a Benjolin at the Worm workshop, 26 February 2011

When I was looking for a housing I decide to make a portable base unit that can be used for other (Home made, Circuit Bend) instruments.
I build the Benjolin, into a old tape deck housing with speakers together with a Philips sound-mixer and a guitar amp (crate profile 5), it has 3 channels one for the Benjolin one no-input-feedback mixer and one for anther build-in gadget (maybe a APC or radio device I don't know yet) for now its just a input and a knob to switch each channel to an external input.

I built a patch bay for audio in, sent and return and a patch bay for the CV ins and outs from the Benjolin and there is some room a few extra patchable potmeters. The audio is going thru the sound mixer (echo and and bass treble control) and thru the amp effects. A I am also planing to make a (mini)stereo mixer to the line in from the profiler 5. The profiler has a build in usb sound card.

And after al it is still a guitar amp so I can plug in my 'homeswinger" build in another workshop at Worm given by Yuri Landman.

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oberkorn · Joined: Nov 05, 2009 Posts: 5 Location: sweden

macumbista · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:15 am Post subject:

A kind of super-Benjolin... “Catjar in the Rye” (or “Betty”, as she is know to her friends) is an experimental sound instrument built for Swedish composer Andreas Catjar. It combines a chaotic Benjolin synthesizer, extreme fuzz distortion unit, a speaker/contact-mic feedback system and “circuit-bending”-style body contacts into one rugged flightcase. The Benjolin features several modifications, including patchable routing banana jacks, LED lights for the three stages of its analog shift register and an external audio input.

My thanks go out to Rob Hordijk for providing this circuit, and to Pete Edwards/Casper Electronics for his help in working out the modifications.

More info here: http://macumbista.net/?p=2979

mosc · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:19 pm Post subject:

macumbista

After the October 12, 2012 premier performance, maybe you could post an audio file here. I'd love to hear what that beautiful instrument sounds like.

Beautiful work... thumb up

blue_lu · Joined: Nov 16, 2009 Posts: 32 Location: Germany

is there a source for these pro made pcbs?

macumbista · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:33 am Post subject:

macumbista · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:39 pm Post subject:

Actually, I didn't notice the double-sided pro boards in this thread before, also curious of the source...