http://electro-music.com/forum/ http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=384283#384283 I'm looking at your enhanced schematic. It appears the tom is triggered at the same time as the snare. Is this correct? Maybe this would account for my snare sounding a bit cheap. I'll breadboard the tom and see what I come up with.

EDIT: I've just ... -minus- Sat, 18 May 2013 01:47:45 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=380538#380538 It looks to me like that circuit uses a custom resistor network IC, not one of the usual topologies. Do you know the values? johncronan Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:22:05 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=379709#379709 Still has the midi in and thru. Cables are in front to make them as short as possible. going out the back would have added a couple feet to each wire. The mods do add quite a bit to the fat man. now i can use any lfo or other modulation source i hav ... tojpeters Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:30:30 -0700 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=379180#379180 RC: panels are 1/16" Al with a coat of gold automotive paint. Then a lasertran panel decal with the graphics is applied over it. Then automotive clear coat. Finally baked in a repurposed toaster oven at about 225F for an hour.

For the decal, I ... Dan Lavin Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:37:32 -0700 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=375584#375584 Here's a link to the schematic and circuit description .

It ought to be possible to get a delay out of this 1024 circuit also, right? I would think if the 566 clock freq is slowed down enough, it could make other delay-line effects too? Only, the b ... ericcoleridge Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:31:27 -0700 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=373223#373223 So, I also had a MFOS bipolar power supply in the works, so I finished that and am now powering the MFOS dual VCA from that.

The hum is gone! I wonder if the +/-17VDC was too much for the VCAs, which are recommended for +/-12VDC to +/-15VDC (on the ... danielwarner Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:42:13 -0700 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=371791#371791 ...Sadly, I think that, in a very real sense, this presumably untested circuit was not John Simonton's best work either.
I guess we will never know the whole story here. Maybe a schematic got switched or something. It's certainly difficult to conce ... frijitz Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:17:15 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=370537#370537

more details at http://www.percussa.com/2012/09/28/analog-synth-jam-featuring-fatman-and-audiocubes/ bschiett Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:07:42 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=370320#370320 Sell me the mixer module! Dego Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:31:05 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=370179#370179 Cool! Dego Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:08:59 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=366966#366966 thanks,

i happened to be in edmond a few weeks ago and took it by PAIA's shop and scott helped me out with it.

the piano switch had gone bad on me. it's all fixed and workin like a champ

scott over there is a cool cat. i look forward to wor ... alieneYe Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:32:17 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=362504#362504 Cool. Does this mean that you will soon be digging out the fatman and testing mods again?

:) That is likely I think. I have the portable dug out now, but no place to set it up at the moment. JovianPyx Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:47:44 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=358929#358929 Just a follow up now that I've had a chance to listen to the "before" and "after" recordings.

The quality improvement is dramatic -- clearly audible on the recordings even through my laptop's built-in speakers.

You've transformed the instrument ... kkissinger Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:46:52 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=356252#356252 but it bothers me that there's no vibrato. There's no vibrato right?

On mine there is vibrato. The factory Stringz passes the violin and cello signals through two bucket-brigade lines each of whose speeds is modulated by its own LFO, and mixes th ... stefanv Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:46:56 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=345947#345947 hmm.. I think if you take the signal directlly from one of the 555's, it should be a pulse of squarewave singnal. you propably could condition it with a simple RC lowpass filter, to make it more sine like., then use that for a modulation source. I th ... patrickvf1976 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:36:55 -0700 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=345927#345927 Is there a way to power the fatman with batteries? Did anyone do that? I was thinking of putting it into a smaller case and use battery packs for it to make it more portable. Perhaps an AC or DC input for a wall wart would be fine, too. Any suggestions? patrickvf1976 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:30:17 -0700 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=334832#334832 Wow. That was quick. Thanks, Dan.

Demos of different "Conga" pitches, glide, decays, and impact would've sounded pretty much the same as those for the SynthDrum, so I included these.

Looks like you and I are the only ones posting here. :pale: richardc64 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:01:08 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=301496#301496 The output of the FatMan starts at the VCO which is powered by ground and -12 volts. So it varies from near zero down to near -12 volts. At the input to the VCF, it varies from 6v to -6v because the signal is passed through a capacitor. Hope that h ... JovianPyx Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:46:47 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=288839#288839 Fun demos. Did you put LEDs on the sliders of your Klee? CJ Miller Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:09:14 -0600 http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=286945#286945 Wow, that's terrific! I didn't know that they were planning any more 9700 modules.... and then - bam - 11 of them. Scott rocks. PAiA is once again the easiest introduction to modular synthesis. Still no Norton-counter based sequencer though!

Thanks ... CJ Miller Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:18:08 -0700