modularsynth

Mr. Haken from Illinois, U.S.A. has provided us with new on the Haken OS.

Dear Continuum Fingerboard enthusiast,

Version 4.08 firmware is now available for download for Continuum Fingerboards with built-in sounds. 4.08 addresses several minor issues related to our recent 4.07 release:

• A bug fix for playing internal sounds at polyphony 32. • Corrections to the User Guides. • A graphical fix in the Continuum Editor.

As well, there is a new naming convention for firmware data files, making it easier to perform the firmware update.

The 4.08 firmware, Editor, and User Guides are available on the Download page: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/resources/Downloads.html

We have also posted additional examples using internal sounds: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/intsounds/isIntro.html

Thank you very much Dr.Haken!

Today's Patch of the Day showcases some of the features that make the combination of Brains, Pressure Points and Maths such a flexible & tactile sequencing package.


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Here are the patch details:

Cycling Maths Ch1 acts as clock. EOR > Brains CLK.
Linear, R = 0, Fall = 14:30
Envelope controls VCA depth + VCO FM Index.

Maths Ch4 slews Press CV from PP buss (use input, not trigger).
R + F ca. 15:00, exponential.
Slewed CV > VCA (dynamics), Brains 'Run' + Maths Ch2.
Set Ch2 to ca. 22:00 (-ve) and patch to Ch1 Fall VC

Patch PP rows 1-3 > sequential switch. PP row 1 gate > A-152 clock.
Digital out 4 > reset, common I/O > quantiser > VCO.

And here's what's happening:
Although Maths is cycling and providing Brains with a clock, the sequence is blocked from running until the press CV exceeds 1V. On release of the touch plate, the Press CV fades out, allowing the sequence to continue running until it again falls below 1V. An inverted mult of the press CV, which is fed to Ch1's Fall VC via Ch2, controls the speed of the clock. The harder you press, the faster the clock. As the press CV fades, the clock slows. Try different rise and fall times for both channels 1 + 4 and the amount of fall VC from Ch2 to taste. You could, for example, have the sequence get faster as the volume fades. The remaining connections (Ch4 EOC > Brains reset, PP rows 1-3 > multiplexer etc.) are non-essential, but nice.

Here are some scans from the above publication. I got them from the Moog Archives site. They were put together it seems by Moog themselves: "Electronic Music Review was published quarterly by the Independent Electronic Music Center, Inc., out of the R.A.Moog plant in Trumansburg, New York. The intent of the magazine was to provide a source of information on all aspects of electronic music. Contributors included some of the leading composers, educators, writers, and engineers in the field... Bode, Stockhausen, Berio, LeCaine, Carlos, Mumma, Davies, Cary, Dolby, and Moog.
Issue number 2 and 3 was the "International Electronic Music Catalog", compiled by Hugh Davies, simultaneously published in early 1968 as a hard-cover book by MIT Press (as pictured here)"


I would love to find an original set of these!

I drove to the studio today in the Saab 900 [from 1983] and a little boy of about ten years old pointed at the car and kind of laughed. It occurred to me that that would be the equivalent of me seeing an early 1950's car when I was ten drive past and thinking how funny it looked. Here are some more funny cars, which happen to have synth music soundtracks on. They are all designed by the amazing Bertone

@njdoyle the shift value is subject to change, it's 0 for testing

Recording some sounds from the SuONOIO.

If you didn't spot Brains lurking under my DIY desktop rack in Monday's post, here's another glimpse:



Brains provides sequencing power to Make Noise's Pressure Points, offering some of the functionality of the classic Serge TKB. For a full description, see the product page and make sure you read the manual! I'd never have thought that such a small and seemingly simple clocker could open up so many possibilities. Nice work work, Tony - Brains, Pressure Points & Maths make a cracking team!

Here's a quick example using the stepped out of a Wogglebug to change the direction of a four-note (i.e. one row) sequence. When the random voltage is above 1V, the sequence runs forward. When it's below, it runs backwards. At about 23 seconds, the /6 output of a 4ms RCD steps a sequential switch to add rows 2 & 3 to the chain, creating a 12-note sequence.


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Brains comes with all the necessary cables to connect the unit to two Pressure Points as well as chain the touchplates and is available now from Schneidersbuero. I'll be taking a closer look at the possibilities offered by Brains later in the week. In the meantime, if you have Pressure Points, do yourself a favour and get this module. It's … a no-brainer.

Analogue Haven posted a photo:

Shown here, from Tiptop Audio: Universal 110/220V power supply. Powered Bus board with1200ma at +12V, 1200ma at -12V and 150ma at +5V Passive Bus Board with built in +5V regulator. More info soon! LINK: www.analoguehaven.com/tiptopaudio/

Yeah, we haven´t been too active here for some weeks so in case nobody we got some deliveries from overseas recently. Here´s an overwiev:

• Snazzy FX (all three stompboxes)
• Malekko modules including the brand new Wiard Oscillator
• lots of Make Noise modules (except Wogglebug)
• Signal Arts Tetra Maps (see below)
• the lovely KNAS Ekdahl Moisturizer (sold out again but already re-ordered)
• a batch of 4ms Rotating Clock Dividers

After more than one year of waiting we finally received a small batch of the complex eight-track digital sequencer eurorack module Tetra Maps by canadian manufacturer Signal Arts.

Toppobrillo sent a bunch of Sport Modulator modules yesterday. They will probably arrive this week.

click here for the SM web page @ Toppobrillo

The sport Modulator has been inspired by Serge´s (in)famous Smooth and Stepped Generator (SSG) and each of the two units features VC lag, triangle LFO, Sample&Hold or staircase voltage generator, depending how you patch it. A comparator jack in the middle outputs gate signals.

Doepfer´s A-123 24dB HighPass VCF based on the CEM 3320 has been discontinued right.

Doepfer´s stock is empty as is ours.

Brand new and already IN STOCK!

Make noise officially released the BRAINS module today.

It is a sequencer expander module for the Pressure Points touchplate controllers. By connecting it to one or max. two PressurePoints this combination of modules turns into a touch sensitive four-step or eight-step analogue sequencer. By touching the plates you can reset or freeze to/at the stage you touch.

Touch clock synchronizes touch events to the clock. If the touch clock differs from the master clock, interesting variations of the main sequence occur! Connect it to a MATHS and get hold functions and crazy movements reminiscent Rol@nd185 or  Buchla marf or… funky stuff!

A full resolution preview from 'a funneled stone'

This track I'm releasing under a creative commons license. You're free to download (24-bit!) and share, remix, repurpose, as much as you like, as long as attribution is given.

Thank you.

as clean as fire by stretta


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I think its time I upgraded to Digital Performer 7.2

Something to connect to Pressure Points: http://www.makenoisemusic.com/BRAINS.html

@PeterErikson MATHS, QMMG, Pressure Points and BRAINS all shipped SB.

Finally got this built for mr. Visitor before I leave Atlanta for NYC. He made a video, I'll get some photos up soon. Its a really fun little modular consisting of an MFOS VCO, a Thomas White Buchla LoPass Gate clone, 2x Voice of Saturn Modulators (LFO sections) and a Voice of Saturn VCF. Lots of noise in a nice little compact unit.

lil chud cvm modular from blake helton on Vimeo.

Look at these graphs from my favorite book 'the a-z of analog synths' by Peter Forrest [I have more than one favorite book, ok?]. They show values as defined by him of each synth ever made, ever. It struck me that I definitely started buying keyboards at the right time - every graph in the book has a very pronounced nadir around 1989. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! [Trust me - every graph in the book looks like this....]