2011 Build Pictures

sduck · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:56 pm Post subject:

I made this

RF · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:24 pm Post subject:

That's just sick. Nice job, sduck.

Ojd · Joined: Feb 22, 2008 Posts: 66 Location: Ua Audio files: 1

Here's my system made during this year. Consisting of:
2 simple saw VCO (nicolas design)
5 input mixer (cgs DC mixer design + simple noise)
polyvox VCF (made from ruskeys.net schematics with russian parts)
nicolas LFO
simple wave folder (CGS52; more of a square waveshaper/PWM really)
vactrol passive VCA (attenuator; see this thread )
some minijack to bannana converters

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stereo preamp for DC coupled interface, running Silent Way VST.

DIY modular + Silent way from Indirect on Vimeo.

Spacehardware · Joined: Jan 21, 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Bristol,UK

Another year, another synth...
Just completed a wavetable synth module.

And uploaded a couple of videos:

Enjoyed Synth DIY UK last weekend BTW Smile

(Crawls back into the woodwork for another year).

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inlifeindeath · Joined: Apr 02, 2010 Posts: 316 Location: Albuquerque, NM

Ojd · Joined: Feb 22, 2008 Posts: 66 Location: Ua Audio files: 1

Converter is a DC-coupled audio interface, so no midi involved. Another popular plugin using same technique was MOTU VOLTA (youtube it, its clearly explained)

http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/silentway.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwUCYJNK_g4&feature=player_embedded
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richardc64 · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:09 am Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:20 pm Post subject:

yesterday i almost finished the VCPS-8 eurorack prototype. the ADC is still on backorder, otherwise it worked from the start (no klutch areas, though).

mosc · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:02 pm Post subject:

diablojoy · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:24 pm Post subject:

hmm dosen't rule out the mutiple clone theory Shocked

nerdware · Joined: Jul 11, 2009 Posts: 91 Location: UK

strategy · Joined: Jan 03, 2009 Posts: 87 Location: portland, oregon

Still lurking here, spent much of last year without a work space but DIY has continued. Here are two new builds, a tube overdrive that uses subminiature tubes (a Frequencycentral design from diystompboxes.com forum) and a first version Where's the Party At? looper/sampler, built with arcade buttons and my own reclaimed enclosure...The only loose end is that one of the arcade buttons is faulty.

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kupfer_m · Joined: Oct 14, 2010 Posts: 48 Location: Belgium

My modular efforts of 2011!
Still more modules to come and a few things to change...

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wmonk · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:25 am Post subject:

Spacehardware · Joined: Jan 21, 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Bristol,UK

Thanks

Here's a view of the inside, with the parts labelled...

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kjackman · Joined: Sep 05, 2010 Posts: 69 Location: Utah, USA

I always look forward to sduck pics just for the aesthetics of it all. Attention to detail in design and build quality, front panels that dazzle without being ostentatious, and even top-notch photography. Fine art.

I also see your Flickr pics on Flipbook every once in a while and smile.

I should post pics of the beat-up "panels" I'm mutilating out of old steel shelving right now, with a misaligned drill press and a Dremel that begs for mercy every time I pull it out of the tool bucket. Just to contrast with this sduck stuff. To appreciate beauty, one must experience the ugly. Laughing

AnalogCustom · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 52 Location: Chile

mosc · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject:

LFLab · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:35 pm Post subject:

Perf. board? Bad-ass!

Spacehardware · Joined: Jan 21, 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Bristol,UK

Thanks all!
When I eventually move on to custom made PCBs it will save me a good deal of time and solder Smile

rosch · Joined: Oct 03, 2009 Posts: 164 Location: germany

Spacehardware,
congratulations on that synthesizer. sounds AWESOME! and looks awesome too, great work!
are you planning to make it public, like a boards run or something?

adamon · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:11 am Post subject:

With only a day to spare, I managed to squeak one more module out before the em kc gathering this week; After almost a year of development, I'm pleased to present the mutant mutant filter!

This contraption can be thought of as a bastard child of Scott Stite's amazing mutation of the Buchla LPG (the mutant filter); so this could be called a bastard's bastard I guess =)

Basically its a dual filter, the upper being the band pass and high pass configuration of the mutant, and the lower being the low pass version. Both filters have input level, frequency control with an external input, and resonance amount control. The filters also have a 12/24db slope switch, a filter "flavor" switch (cap selection), and a switch that taps the resonance from either the 12db output or the 24db output. The high pass and band pass filter has an additional switch that switches between the two modes.

As with all of my other modules, I've adapted it to run on 0-9V, played with some part values, and used my own vactrol section, so its quite different from the original mutant, but it is still a beast nonetheless. I can't believe how deep this thing is; definitely my new favorite module in my system.

Perhaps my em kc performance will just be one, hour long filter sweep... =)

So many thanks are due to Mr. Stites for this one!

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The back door

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