Just received my four Thomas White Resonant LowPass Gate PCB from Natural Rhythm Music aka. DJThomasWhite.
SympleSEQ analog sequencer panel
February 15th, 2012
Just received my SympleSEQ analog sequencer eurorack panel from Re-Synthesis.
New SDIY project – SympleSEQ analog sequencer
January 15th, 2012
Building the Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1 was the first step for me to access a whole new world of truly capable musical tools that you can build yourself, with the possibility to modify it to your own personal needs and also to have the satisfaction to build it yourself !
After strolling on the Music Tech SDIY of the MuffWiggler forum during last week, i was hocked by several very interesting SDIY projects and I’ve jumped on several of them. The first one I will build is a dual analog step sequencer called SympleSEQ. This is a community funded project conceived by Hexinverter.net and who is selling different kits for this nice project. The Eurorack panel is available here.
Shruthi-1 – Pad demo
January 15th, 2012
Small demo of one of my recently built Shruthi-1 synth in an unusual ambient Pad. As usual, the ValhallaShimmer reverb add a lot of lush to the sound.
Building two Shruthi-1 synthezisers
January 9th, 2012
I’ve discovered the Shruthi-1 synthesizer project by reading a thread on the Anafrog forum. I’ve then checked the audio samples on Mutable Instruments and I was so impressed by the quality and personality of this little synthesizer that I’ve decided to take the plunge. But there was a unknown part on this decision : this synthesizer is only available as a SDIY (Solder Do It Yourself) kit … and I’ve never built such an electronic kit before !
But here is what I’ve built during three long evening …
The Shruthi-1 is a hybrid digital/analog monosynth. Its hardware design is deceptively simple, but the sonic range is wide: sometimes grungily digital like a PPG-Wave, fat and funky like a SH-101, videogame-y like a Commodore 64, weird and warm like an ESQ-1 ; but more often than not, truly original.
Contrary to the hardware you can purchase at the music shop next door, a Shruthi-1 isn’t designed to be industrially manufactured. Indeed, its assembly doesn’t require any specialized equipment, besides a screwdriver, cutters, a soldering iron and two hands.
Full informations about Mutable Instruments and the Shruthi-1 here.
Many thanks to Olivier Gillet for his amazing work on the Mutable Instruments projects !
Please check below all my building process!
Lemur iApp
December 11th, 2011
The legendary JazzMutant Lemur touchscreen modular solution has been ported to the iOS (iPhones and iPads) by the berlin based company Liine.
I’ve just bought it some days ago. That’s not just an other one iOS controller app for your iPhone or iPad : the scripting and modular possibilities, and the numerous physical properties of most of objects in the toolbox make it quite different, quite more “playable” and enjoyable than the other ones that I have tried (TouchAble, TouchOSC, Midi Touch, …).
For me, this tool does not replace my other hardware controllers, but it offers new interactive possibilities that only a touchscreen can have.
Here is a screenshot of the modular controller environment I’m working on at the moment for a coming music piece.
