Amaturishly made seven banana to 3.5mm mult with ground banana jack to Serge power supply.
Tube VCA arrived today, just spent the last 45 minute breaking the surface with it. Absolutely loving this thing. Sounds to my ears exactly how a tube should for the amplification, plenty of sweet spots, and moments where it all just breaks apart to pieces. Compared to the Metasonix and Trogotronic stuff I've owned/played with in the past, which never got "hot" enough to my ears, or was too hard to dial in what I wanted, this thing cuts right to the point.
The dirty mode is a bit less impressive than I imagined, but also a bit redundant since the clean mode can easily be cranked into dirty destruction. Even at the lowest settings for the feedback knob, there is still some "leak" if the switch is engaged... and I see zero reason to ever disengage it. Even with minimal settings, it adds just a bit of delicious hum feeding back into the circuit making it come alive.
Definitely helps add some color, warmth, and harmonics to my digital oscillators. Like peanut butter and jelly. Dig it.
And just FYI: a while back I abandoned this idea and sold my 'spare' MOTM-300. :-(
I agree on the FM2 option, and yeah, some kind of pulse width starting-point control does open it out a bit.
Thanks. :-)
I was pondering making the PWM and FM1 knobs smaller yet and having them side by side and then putting the waveform selector above them and below the Coarse pot. (Coarse pot would be a 120 turn one and the Fine control eliminated) Then I could put the FM2 jack back in (with no pot) but, I honestly almost never use 2 FM inputs on my 300's and I don't want to make the panel any more crowded than it is.
Also, if I can find the right kind of switch for the waveform selector I'll be able to add a couple different pulse shapes instead of just square . . maybe 25% and 75% at least?
Ha ha! None at all. Loving the idea of putting the waveshape selector in there to save space.
Thanks Dom! This is what I'm going to do with the MOTM-300 I selfishly refused to sell to you! :-( No hard feelings? ;-)
This module sounds fantastic and is bulit solid. Well done sir.
To my ear it doesn't really sound like the Oberheim SEM filter, but you can get great acid 303-like lines out of it!
Kits are finally available! :)
@Solitud: I do ship DIY products direct to Europe from my webshop, yes :) I won't be distributing my DIY products from anywhere else though, as I would have to raise the prices substantially in order to wholesale stuff to retailers.@FSK1138: <$280 for a full 42HP eurorack kit (including panel). Not sure on PCB/panel prices yet; still waiting on some numbers before anything is official! :)
Looks great! Will these ever be available in Europe?
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I've got it. It adds a very smooth harmonics up to aggressive cutting saturation.
Love it.
This looks suspiciously like the Turing Machine Random Sequencer by Tom Whitwell, doesnt it?
Also, I changed the image back to the illustration that was used previously.
Can someone who owns this module confirm the width? It's stated 12HP by Cwejman but looks more like 14HP.
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does exactly what its supposed to and a bit more. you can patch a compressor with the envelope using the ratio/threshold controls and a vca that can bias beyond unity gain!
The Squarewave is hours of fun
many prefer the morphing terrarium for the smooth interpolation, I like this one better because of the detune feature and the fact that it can interpolate as well, but between two different waves of your selection!
Also the resolution on this one is amazing. really clear and precise even in the highest registers.
The analog part, the idea and the price for DIY kit is outstanding. This module tracks up to 8 octaves even in polphonic mode and has a great potential.
Back on the subject of size, I measured my Micromac -R and it happens to be exactly 28'95 centimeters wide, which translates to 11,397638 inches. Given that 1 hp is 0,20 inches, that makes a total of 56,998 hp (in practical terms, 57hp).
It must be due to most modules being shorter by a fraction of a millimeter that I got an extra 1hp in my rack! ;)
I keep some pictures showing a ruler and the micromac if further proof is necessary...
Here's an overview: http://20objects.com/ardcore/
Looks like it is $250
is this the same as snazzy fx ardcore . does anyone know the price of this unit ?
To be honest, I think this won't even fit in 1U. I think it is meant to be mounted on the outside of a case. I tried to remove it, but the site wouldn't let me.
It looks like this with 18 hp in total:http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t331/pulplogic/Tiles/outputs_zpsff36c90f.jpg
Not surebut it says 18hp on
I took the liberty to adjust the size of this module. Isn't it actually 12 HP? Paired with the 6 HP of the 1U output it becomes 18 HP
Yes, it self-osc. like hell. It has two resonation modes.
Doepfer 124 is a kid compared to these reso heavy, gritty biests.
It's no production model, a custom job made in 2 examples.
A Eurocrack Pusher: "The first time is for free" ;)
That looks great! Does it have self oscillation mode as a feature?
Wow!
is this a production model? Or was it just a one-off custom job?
Yeah, it only works if you dedicate an entire row of your rack to 1U and ignore the extra space...
Like you said, the problem is that ModularGrid does not support this format.So this is a compromise in the graphic representation of this modules.
Problem is that nobody would layout their realworld racks with this compromise (wasted space).
So I am not sure if it is really useful to plan a system.But for sure people maybe interested that this subformat exists, so for now the tile modules should stay until we find a better (technical) solution.
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Here's a thread on Muffwiggler: http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65340
It's a little awkward as they are 1U in height (not supported by modulargrid), but they exist...
Here's some cases that support the tiles:
http://erthenvar.com/store/lunchbox
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251306429860
You can also build your own:
http://erthenvar.com/store/eurodiy/casehardware
Not sure if those tile thingies make sense?
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A fully fetched VCF, VCA and Pan module under one surface. Great value for money!
