Let's see your Lunetta!

horchacha · Joined: Sep 05, 2007 Posts: 8 Location: tucson, az

hey guys - i don't post much - i'm a e-m lurker from time to time. here is my lunetta! and here is a video of it too. since the photo linked here i have added a bunch of crap to the front of the unit. the video shows it all

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blue hell · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:22 pm Post subject:

Wild! (horses Wink

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RF · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject:

Fabulous cacophony - Great stuff!
Thanks for sharing it here!
bruce

slacker · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:25 pm Post subject:

Nice one, looks and sounds great Smile

Rykhaard · Joined: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 1290 Location: Canada

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mosc · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject:

I love that video, and your Lunetta. I am aware, however, that there are relatively few kindred spirits. I'm glad we have been able to link up here. Very Happy

That digital noise is fascinating. At one point it sounded like a modulated resonate filter.

Performing on these instruments is an art form in the very earliest stage of development. Lunettas are primo for creating chaotic systems. Smile

Keep these pics coming!!!

DGTom · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject:

great video! Like a drum machine in a tornado!! Very powerfull little machine you have there & very fitting to be inside an old chess set box, I often think of working with the lunetta as a kind of game of strategy, like playing chess aganist the ghost in the machine Cool

horchacha · Joined: Sep 05, 2007 Posts: 8 Location: tucson, az

thanks guys for the kind words. here is a better photo of the unit. i really prob wouldn't have made this if it wasn't for you guys. for the record it is :
5v2amp fused lamped supply
momentary button/trigger of 5v gate
10 x gated transistor oscs from brice wards book
two 1/4" to banana jacks (for either stereo/dual outs or line in/out)
bug brand's 40106 osc schematics - with a few extra 40106 as slow clocks
two passive atten
5 input quantizer w/ lag
two ring mods based on the dual 4011 i think arp
two 4051 shift regs (off bug brands schem)
two 4017 decade counters
one divider chip that i forget (was on analog cottage's den)
one vactrol vca
one ring mod based on four 4011s (ms10/20?)
two 4046 pll
one half a 4066
two 3 input nands
two inverters
one super gain/amp out of inverter
two ors

whew - it's only done in the sense that i used gorilla glue to close the unit
but i can get through that.... Razz

i have so much cmos laying around its sick

some mp3s
www.notbreathing.com/lunettaravecore.mp3
www.notbreathing.com/lunettascape.mp3

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textual

Hello,
SO I have been regularly visiting this forum for a few months and have been learning TONS. Its been the most musically/creatively inspiring place for me lately. I have posted a few times in the MFOS-Ray Wilson section of the forum, but never here I don't think. Here is my synth in its current form. Just a module of 6 40106 clocks, all with a selectable hi/lo range and a module with 2x 4094 shift registers (minus the serial outs) more will definitely be coming soon.. and when its done I will post some sort of video i imagine. Its in an old wine box currently, but will have a real case made eventually. Thanks to all those who helped in answering my questions... mainly Bruce, (RF) and Tom, (DGTom)

Thanks..
Dave

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Psyingo · Joined: Jun 11, 2009 Posts: 248 Location: Canada

textual · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:14 pm Post subject: the box

Thanks- yeah i have another one as well.. which also needs to get filled up! I may keep them in it, but the boxes are a litttttle bit wonky.

RF · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:30 pm Post subject:

Nice to see this Dave!
I'm liking the wine box too! Very nice - can't wait to see it all filled up and making great sounds!

bruce

droffset · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:26 pm Post subject:

Looks good in the wine box, and you have plenty of room to expand. Smile

mosc · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:35 am Post subject:

A wine box is a great choice for a cabinet. The more you drink, the better it sounds. Laughing

(Sorry, that joke is probably older than me.)

textual · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:46 am Post subject:

Thanks for the comments. I have a few of these boxes that were left over from use in a photo shoot.. Hopefully I can fill up at least 2 of them, which would be something like 15 or 16 modules..!! I have a dual R2R ladder using the LF444 as well as a 4 input mixer using a LF442 both on the breadboard.. as soon as i get more aluminum they will be built. I can't wait to see what all these things can do when they are done being built. I feel the full potential can never be seen just sitting archaically on the BB.

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kkissinger · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:07 pm Post subject:

This is really cool equipment and music. Thanks for this inspiring thread.

Over the last few years my enthusiasm for the Lunetta approach to electronic music has increased.

I look forward to building my first Lunetta later this year. Currently I'm expanding my modular synth and as I've ordered parts I've ordered extras of everything. Thus, I'm accumulating a nice stock of counters and assorted digital chips.

So many interesting things to do and so little time!

textual · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:08 am Post subject: another update

so I have come a little further and can actually test modules out now that I have built a mixer.. (bottom right) its 4 in -mono out, with 2 passive tone controls- based around LF442 op amp
from left to right
-6x 40106 clocks
-2x 4094 shift registers
-2x R2R ladders
-4x 40106 synthmonger VCO + 2x 40106 LFO
its growing!

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RF · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:33 am Post subject:

Looks great Dave! Can't wait to hear the sounds you get from it. Share 'em when you got 'em! You are on the verge of Lunetta Nirvana.

bruce

textual · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:12 am Post subject:

Bruce-

yes I am about to reach Nirvana for sure... I tried to post a quick video from my cell phone, but the forum does not accept the format. And as of now I do not have a youtube page to post these types of vids at. soon though. I am leaving for a tour tonight and will be gone until 3/22 so... will get back to it after that!

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textual · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:37 am Post subject:

well its quicktime, but extension is .3g2
I could convert it into a viewable format but would take time

blue hell · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:47 am Post subject:

I've added 3g2 to the list of allowed extensions, will leave it up to you Dave if you want to convert it or not.

textual · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:52 am Post subject:

NICE...
so this is a basic patch 2 clocks feeding 1 4094 shift register, those outs going to 2 different R2R ladders, those r2r outputs going to 2 VCO's outs to 2 inputs in the mixer...
sorry if the viewing is small.. filmed on my cell phone.

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