Friday, 7 February 2020

Joadja Distillery

THis dISTILLERY is in the Southern Highlands of NSW and is very close to Bowral.
Well worth a visit esp if you wish to try Australian Whisky.

 WEbsite:
https://www.joadjadistillery.com.au/






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Monday, 3 February 2020

Synthstrom Deluge & Buchla 252e

I kinda liked this patch.

Here are some pics (my patch notes).
This might turn out into a track


tHE Synthstrom Deluge is sending midi clock to the Buchla 252e via a 225e.
The tHREE oscillators are a Buchla 262e, a 158 & a Verbos 258v




mORE of the video here

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The 3 pulse outs & the sub-div pulse out of the Buchla 252e are plugged into the four control voltage inputs of a Roman 292c



The 3 CV outs of the Buchla 252e are plugged into a 158, a 261e & a 258v (Pitch inputs)
I've also added a 266r (source of uncertainity)



Sunday, 2 February 2020

Buchla 252e & 266r

Many thanks to Todd Barton for the idea.
I'm triggering the clocks of the Buchla 252e with a Roman 266.


Here is the general patch.


The 266 sends random CV into the clocks (black banana)
Everytime cell 1 is reached the 252e sends a pulse the clock/s (orange banana)

808 Inducted into the NAMM Hall of Fame

I'm interested in how technology and music interact.
The NAMM TECnology Hall of Fame was founded in 2004 by by George Petersen.
https://www.tecawards.org/tecnology-hall-of-fame

It "honors and recognizes audio products and innovations that have made a significant contribution to the advancement of audio technology".

This year the Roland TR 808 was inducted.

I wonder if the 303 or 909 will receive similar awards in the future?
Maybe the Buchla or the Fairlight Synthesizer ?
Maybe the invention of MIDI ?
The award has been given since 2015.

Its interesting to see the past awards
They were given to the following 

2015


Fender Rhodes Electric Piano 1965
Sony C-37A Microphone 1955 
3M Scotch 100 Recording Tape 1947
Electro-Voice RE20 Microphone 1968
ARP 2600 Synthesizer 1970
Otari MTR-90 24-Track 1979
TC Electronic 2290 Digital Delay  1979
SIA Software SMAART Audio Analysis Program 1995
Empirical Labs Distressor Compressor 1996
Propellerhead Reason Music Software 2000

2016


The Decibel Unit, Bell Laboratories 1928
Wurlitzer Electronic Piano 1954
Auratone Sound Cubes 1958
Neumann KM84 microphone 1966
Shure SM58 microphone 1966
Roland RE-201 Space Echo 1973
Lexicon PCM 41 Digital Delay 1980
Eventide's H3000 UltraHarmonizer 1988
Manley VoxBox 1998
Avid Digidesign Pro Tools 2002

2017


Decca Tree spaced microphone array 1954
Neumann U67 tube microphone 1960
Wah Wah Pedal- Bradley Plunkett, Warwick/Thomas Organ Co. 1966
TASCAM 80-8 analog 8-track recorder 1976
Wendel drum machine 1978
API Audio Lunchbox 500-series module housing 1985
Neutrik Speakon connector 1987
Audio Engineering Associates/ AEA R44-C Ribbon Microphone 1998


2018


Phonautograph Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville  1857
Tape Echo Slap Sam Phillips, Sun Records  1954
Vocal Master PA System Shure 1968
Model 1745 Digital Delay Eventide 1971
990 Discrete Op-Amp Deane Jensen 1979
V-DOSC L-Acoustics 1992
POD Guitar Processor Line 6 1998
AWS 900 Studio Console Solid State Logic 2004

2019


Anechoic Chamber Harvard’s Electro-Acoustic Laboratory  1943
Electret Microphone Patent Bell Labs 1964
M160 Ribbon Microphone Beyerdynamic 1957
RADAR 24-Track Audio Disk Recorder iZ Technology 1991
Professional VerTec line array system JBL 2000
Labs Source Independent Measurement Meyer Sound 1991
HV-3 microphone preamplifier Millennia Media 1992
Modular Moog Synthesizer Moog Music 1964


2020

Multichannel Film for “Fantasia” Walt Disney Productions 1940
Cooper Time Cube UREI/Universal Audio 1971
TR-808 Drum Machine Roland 1980
Rockman Scholz Research & Development 1982
Combo XLR-1/4" connector Neutrik 1992
Phoenix Plug-in Crane Song 2002
k Series Speakers QSC 2010 

Thursday, 30 January 2020

Noiro-Ze VCF & VCA

These are my build notes for the Nonlinear Circuits Noiro-Ze VCF/VCA



This looks like a fusion between the VCF based on the Steiner-Parker diode VCF and a Korg PS3100 VCA.
The the Steiner diode VCF uses diodes of course, but Andrew has substituted LDRs.... you are basically
making vactrols. You will build a light proof box on the PCB.

The original Steiner filter is so very different from all the other filters that I've used. I first heard this on my Arturia Minibrute.  According to Vintage Synth, it can self-oscillate like the Minimoog, but has an opposite polarity so it doesn't lose any volume when resonance is increased



"The nice thing about this filter is you can feed different signals to the LP, BP & HP inputs then 
surf between them with your CV, quite different from regular filters."



"issho ni karaoke ni ikou ka:
 translates to
Let's go out together
 
karaoke (カラオケ) is a Japanese word. 
It's a blend of two words — kara (“empty”) + oke (short for “orchestra”).  

I'm using 2n2 capacitors for the LDRs.


tHE 180K resistor is here

RL resistor -- 10K

Headers to connect the two PCBs
A bit fiddly. Start with the vactrol box


"You may need to adjust the 2n2 capacitors to suit your LDRs. For GL5516, 2n2 are
fine. For GL5539, which has a higher on-resistance, I found 1n caps worked well." Andrew F


I'm using GL5549 LDRs ... so i may need to tweak the capacitors.
I'm starting with 2n2 for now.





I'm using all b100K pots.
So the top 3 will need the log conversion treatment.



Sounds great !!!


Another finished NLC Module. :-)



Links
+ NLC Blog
+ NLC Wiki
+ Module Info - wiki
+ BOM & Wiki
+ YuSynth Steiner VCF
+ Ken Stone's Synthacon VCF
+ Build notes for the CGS synthacon VCF
+ Potentiometers - convert Linear to Log

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Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Hanoi - 2 Vietnam

Some pics from a recent trip to Vietnam
 Apart from all the bikes, It's very French.


Beautiful architecture.
Hopefully, this wont be lost as they modernise.


dECORATIONS for the coming Chinese New Year celebrations?






























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