Joined: May 15, 2009 Posts: 96 Location: Lawrence Kansas
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:25 am Post subject:
Greetings all. I thought I'd mention that I've put up a few tracks on soundcloud, and they are all predominantly lunetta-based stuff. I've updated my links below.
By far, concerning lunetta stuff, the second track, 1-15-10 one, is the most interesting. I was screwing around with an oscillator going into my frequency divider, and then mixing that with two other oscillators into a ring mod (the divider and one oscillator were piggy-backed into one input), and somehow I found this melody generation. The changes in the melody correspond to switches (on/off) being flipped for each of the different divisions (/2, /4, /8, /16, /32, /64). It gets some filtering about half way through, but hopefully you can still appreciate the lunetta core!
The other tracks are also from my system, although they employ various other modules (including a new ramp/pulse generator prototype in 4-12-10 one).
(sorry, I haven't figured out how to embed soundlcoud tracks yet...) _________________ www.soundcloud.com/adamon
I took my own advice and recorded a patch to share.
The timings on this are influenced by the VCO frequencies - which in turn influence the VCO's.
Modules used are an R/2R, 4017/4051 Melody Gen, 8 bit shift registers (2), 4094, 40106 VCO's (2) and a 555 VCO.
Passive portamento provided by a capacitor in a breadboarded experiment (inactive) I had patched into one of the VCO's.
bruce
a year later.... Wow Bruce!!! That's really amazing!!! I hope I can get this sort of noise happening when I construct my Lunetta! It seems the 4051 is a really important IC in lunetta design. I'm yet to get hold of some. Got a load of 40106, 4017 4040, 4093 4013, 4001, 4011, 555's.... but no 4051's! Maybe I should get some breadboarding done tonight and see what I can squeeze out of what I have on hand.
Thanks for posting this! I shall listen to it quite a bit I imagine... look forward to your next album
....actually, there's a heap of great sounds here! Just listening to 'crymeariver'.... I'm going to spend the next hour or so going through all these posted tracks! Thanks everyone... I was getting a little bored with my music collection!
Joined: Mar 23, 2007 Posts: 1502 Location: Northern Minnesota, USA
Audio files: 28
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:15 am Post subject:
[quote="-minus... I was getting a little bored with my music collection![/quote]
Of course the answer is to get that Lunetta of yours built and make your own, -minus... In my experience however, that is easier said than done. Not the building...or the making tracks...
just stopping the building long enough to actually record.
Thanks for the comment on the track - Yes - there is a lot of good stuff in this thread ..
ha ha! nice clip Howard! That wasn't you on the keyboard was it?
You said the quote in the chat room recently when Les was suggesting the use of TTL for his Lunetta workshop. I thought it was rather funny! ...I'll get around to changing the signature soon....
Prism was from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in the mid 70's. They had a couple of HUGE hits in Canada around that time. Spaceship Superstar and ... another one, forgotten for the moment. That were back in the days when Canada had basically only:
The Guess Who (later Burton Cummings solo and Bachman Turner Overdrive)
Trooper
Triumph
Prism
(later for big, everywhere) Rush
for rock bands, as far as I can remember. (There'll be more, but those are the only ones, coming to mind, that made it (cough cough) 'big', in Canada.)
Still in breadboard mode, I decided to take Rykhaard's advice (boys & girls ), and hit record incase I lose something....
Here's a small snippet of something which kind of sounded musical. Not sure what is patched where- my entire house is beginning to be infested with breadboards and alligator clips and leads! It's 40106 oscillators, a 4040, NAND, and the 4017 4051 melody maker. This is going through a $20 flanger and chorus courtesy of Aldi and a Boss reverb pedal. Small section of a long recording straight to Garage Band.
The Backward Brain....
The Backward Brain II.mp3
Description:
Based on the novel of the same title by the enigmatic Sci Fi author, Arthur O'skeely published 1960. (Hardback edition illustrated by Dean Augsfelster.)
Ha ha! Well its much of the same really... quite repetitious. I just can't stop mucking around with this now! I've got the really perverted sounding ice cream van tune playing on the Lunetta right now! I should be recording it! I'd call it "I have come for your children"! I need to get some modules soldered up urgently, but I have people yelling at me to do other more 'important' stuff... They just don't understand! This is the greatest invention since LSD 25! Good old Dr Albert Hoffman! He would have liked these sounds!
You're learning quick minus! Really nice and even harmonic piece, well done.
Every example of reverb on lunetta's sounds great, might have to build myself one... _________________ 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
Joined: Mar 02, 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Minneapolis
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:04 pm Post subject:
This sound sample uses three oscillators with power starved, one LFO, a 4040 divider, a weird vactrol (edit) high pass filter thing, and a bunch of switch flipping.
Hope its okay to post soundcloud to the forums...
On/Off by RA Isle Last edited by RAISLE on Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:27 am; edited 1 time in total
awesome! Very cool thumping sound, does the powerstarving make that much difference? _________________ 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
Joined: May 18, 2010 Posts: 308 Location: Oak Park, IL
Audio files: 5
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:48 am Post subject:
Subject description: Deathlehem Track
Her's my track I'm hoping gets on the Deathlehem Compilation Album. Recorded from my lunetta to Pathfinder Amp to Audacity. Minimal editing and no effects added. Knob fiddling kept to a minimum (not that there's anything wrong with that )!
Title of this piece is "Attack Ships on Fire off the shoulder of Orion".
Some nice noises in there Draal. Just seemed like the levels were a bit low... but it could be me having hearing loss! Like the title too! Revolting Cocks had a track called Attack Ships On Fire, I think.... might have been on the Big Sexy Land album, not sure. Anyway, when you see the cover art submission I'm doing, your title is VERY appropriate!!! You may want to post as a MP3. I had to use Switch to do a conversion to listen to it. But then again I'm probably the only person here who actually LOVES MP3's!!!
kaputtpanzer: Nice looking box on the right! Can you explain (to this old fart who has hearing loss and actually thinks MP3's are of value )what you used to make this sound?
Joined: May 18, 2010 Posts: 308 Location: Oak Park, IL
Audio files: 5
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:39 pm Post subject:
Thanks for the info on the levels; I'll see what adjustments I can make in audacity (which I'm fairly new to). I'm a tube amp/guitar guy and it still takes me some time to get the sound that I hear in the room captured/recorded right.
YES! The Revolting Cocks albums; I had them all . Assaulted my ears too much with that stuff LOL! And of course Blade Runner had a huge affect on me - still remember the reviews were so-so; now it's a genre defining classic.
I'll try exporting to mp3. Time to tweak. _________________ Zontar Prevails!
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:04 pm Post subject:
Subject description: Deathlehem Track
Draal wrote:
Her's my track I'm hoping gets on the Deathlehem Compilation Album. Recorded from my lunetta to Pathfinder Amp to Audacity. Minimal editing and no effects added. Knob fiddling kept to a minimum (not that there's anything wrong with that )!
Title of this piece is "Attack Ships on Fire off the shoulder of Orion".
Very, very fitting for this track! (Louder though, please! )
"Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."
To this day, that has been my most favourite movie period, since I saw it, when it came out.
Some nice noises in there Draal. Just seemed like the levels were a bit low... but it could be me having hearing loss! Like the title too! Revolting Cocks had a track called Attack Ships On Fire, I think.... might have been on the Big Sexy Land album, not sure.
On their double live album, it - Attack Ships and On Fire, are 2 of my most favourite tracks from them. Those and the live version of 'In The Neck'. Most fave RevCo, period, the 3 of them.
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In my experience however, that is easier said than done. Not the building...or the making tracks...
), and hit record incase I lose something....
Good old Dr Albert Hoffman! He would have liked these sounds! 
awesome! Very cool thumping sound, does the powerstarving make that much difference?
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