Building the TTSH - A 14 minute Video Diary

Building the TTSH was lots of fun. While building, I collected lots of photos & videos so decided
to put them all together into two videos.

It's not a "How to Build the TTSH". There are plenty of those up on the net already.
It's just a collection of my experiences. Maybe watching it will encourage you to build one too.

Safita - Syria - The White Tower

This was a trip I made back in 1999.
I wonder if the tower still exists ????

Built by the Knights Templar during the Crusades. In French its know as Chastel Blanc (Arabic: Burj Safita or Safita Tower‎).

A page from my travel diary.

felt-tip pen sketch.

In 1999 all that remained of Chastel Blanc was the central tower or donjon.

Originally it was surrounded by two defensive walls which were typical in Crusader architecture.

When this drawing was done, the tower was a Greek Orthodox church dedicated to St Michael. 

I wonder if it's been converted to a Mosque, destroyed by ISIS, or bombed by who knows who???

All very sad.

 The White Tower was both a chapel for the crusader knights & a fortress. It's 28 metres high and has walls 3 metres thick.

Safita's location on the Mediterranean coast of Syria

This pic was taken in 1905 by Gertrude Bell

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MONEST = MonoMachine + Tempest

This is a a remix of an earlier track using a elektron monomachine
& a dave smith tempest drum.
http://djjondent.blogspot.com.au/2014...
Many thanks to Paul A (Cobramatic) for the remix.
Here is a download link for the audio file



I've been playing around with some video manipulation.... using a Korg Entrancer
in this instance.
We are planning to use this in the future during our live gigs.

Roland 808 vs Jomox 888 Drums

Great sounding drums:

The JoMox XBase 888 plays loaded samples too.


The Buchla is triggered by a new module from Tony of Synovatron.

It's sending a rimshot to trigger a pulse from Tony's new Euro to Buchla trigger.
This is based on his CVGT1

TTSH - Arp clone - first impressions (video)

Not totally finished but I think still worth
recording a video.

The TTSH has been lots of fun to build and a great learning experiemce to boot.


A link to my build notes can be seen here.

And you can download better quality audio here.

Fairlight CMI IIx - first pics

After much anticipation my Fairlight is finally back home.
Many thanks to Peter Wielk of Horizontal Productions for the great care he has
put into it's restoration.

Peter Wielk has been working on Fairlights since the 80s and I highly recommend him if you have one that needs TLC.

 The Alpha-Numeric keyboard.

 The second disk drive (from the top) loads the operating system (system disc). 

The top disk is for your sound/sequence files.

 Unpacking the main computer. It's very very heavy, They don't build em like this now days.

 This is the rear of the mainframe.

Some closeups. Key start ignition.

And yes, the light pen works. Made in a time before there were mouses (mice) or ipads.

It still amazes me.

The Music Keyboard. It's constructed from white painted wood.

Very solid

 These are pics of the rear of the music keyboard.

I'll post more pics & info soon.

Analog Drum Porn

We were testing out Paul's new Jomox 888 against a vintage 808 and decided to take this pic.
One can never have enough drum machines. :-)

The Jomox has a great live performance mode. Very easy to
modify sounds on the fly.