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VLOG 65 The screens are flashing :D :D :D

VLOG 65 WOO the matrix is up and running!

lots of vlogs I apologise, but every day something new thats interesting is working lately! so I felt like I should;d share! a massive shoutout to fredrik for the code aswell as Jason Hoffman. its finally alive. and now onto the next part which is finally the analog realm of the machine!

BUT FIRST! I gotta make those backlights into pretty patterns for a music video this weekend!

VLOG 64 working on machines for a new music video!

keep an eye out for new songs on the horizon!! the outro of the new single is on the outro of yesterdays video on the filter!! (little Easter egg)

so yeah I have a lot to build this week!

in other news! I speak a tad about this rather big project that had my room completely full of lego haha.

https://www.facebook.com/LEGO/videos/456678548513982/

behind the scenes :-...

Two to go!!!!

Good grief this is a testing project on the old patience!! I wasn’t going to get all the game it’s in till a few weeks time however I’m shooting a music video next week and the game it’s screen animation function needs to be working for it! So I’m literally 2 gameboys off. I’m looking through my pile trying to find two more decent screens and bam. Then I’ll be working on the way to make the backlights all separately controllable so it becomes a 6x8 pixel screen. Exciting times. ...

Reimagining my VCO’s

So I guess it’s no surprise That before I go on tour next I decided to rebuild my synthesizer to be more reliable and at the same time just make it overall more performance friendly.

The filters are down, pcb/panels are turning up to share in a few days and I shared the kicad if you didn’t want it stupidly big performance kosmo size. Lfo’s and tuning modules are also pretty much done.

Now it’s the oscillators turn. These I thought would be a challenge but It’s actually ...

VLOG 63, the patch matrix is looking good! and LFO's :O

so yeah thanks Frederik for the help on the led matrix code im waiting for this to turn up and put together but this will help route between all of the analog modules on the gameboy megamachine. it also has an input so the matrix can actually change sequentially. 

rene said I could share the ms20 filter kicad schematic. so here it is, the video for this one will be next week! and up on the Patreon the pcbs panels if you wanted a kosmo 2.0 sized performance filter :-

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What else came with the apple ii? + DOWNLOADS

so yeah it came with some kick ass brochures amongst other things, here's the song files from the vid amongst other loops etc :)

next LIVESTREAM i'll be casting a vote very soon.

MANY THANKS TO jer for clearing up the samples!! so they have no noise on them they are available for download here!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uc4e0hustmrbeal/AAA7Lr7LpiVLVhfiV6DKvETVa?dl=0...

VLOG 62 multitasking aaaaah!!!

lots of things! but yeah check out nervous squirrel truly a nuts builder :-

http://www.nervoussquirrel.com

as for this rather odd power supply! :-

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ivgasjp72wtfewh/AABwe-cz3sJoLTvU64ghXtuXa?dl=0

next video! (hopefully tomorrow) is on the apple 2 and will be comi...

BRITNEY COVER STEMS

here we go! as promised just for the curious ones aboutttt. :)

also the furry samples :-

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n2p74xdj9kl0hs8/AAAc73OqOQxXJ-LElYL6VwXja?dl=0

here the latest!

here the latest! you've seen a lot of this already but you knowwwwww

Some first sounds out of the 4 voice mean machine

a lot has come along this past 10 days or so. thanks to juha for making the midi splitter. that I have been talking about on Patreon since then, amongst another few things! here's what its sounding like atm. please remember, this is only the oscillator section so far, a lot of its charm and musicality will be coming with the poly filters/flangers/distortions but those are all still to come! 

but today is the first day I've been able to ever play it polyphonically and like this. its...

Vlog 61 it’s nearly alive!

Shot this rather late last night. Forgot to post it before I went to bed. As always what I thought would be quick. Took ages! Making all those new ribbon cable looms and fixing problems. Hopefully today I’ll get to play it in all it’s polyphonic glory.

Pcb projectzzz

So! Got blessing from Rene on the ms20 filter for a small run so that’s good! The tuner vid up first with a strip board layout. Also have an Lfo and also a 6xlfo on the way and making a better oscillator. Next vid is on gameboy megamachine! And hopefully after that all these projects will come thick and fast :)

ITS BRITNEY B*&CH

yeah.... no idea how this happened ha

Rest of the day I'm recording some gameboy megamachine for you to see how its coming on!

VLOG POLYPHONY THANKS JUHA!!!

so yes I did shoot this on Monday however I got a new laptop and also had to pop off somewhere for a couple of days and it just meant I couldn't get into pattern to post this! so back now. 

amazingly my old laptop which I explained was a bit far gone,  but still functioned! amazingly it just stopped working, call me paranoid! but maybe there's a conspiracy going on haha. 

Right so. thanks very much to juha for quickly compiling some code for the midi stream I had be...

VlOG 60 GAMEBOY MEGAMACHINE PROGRESSIONS AND SMASHED SCREENS

 so yes thanks a lot to Juha Kivekäs who quickly popped together a midi splitter code! im going to try it out tomorrow and fingers crossed it will get this megamachine singing!

Also chatting about the tuner module, hopefully will have the stripboard/code/pcb project and video up early next week!

Progress on the gameboy megamachine is steady. im trying to get it done in 2 months for my XOYO london gig but i have a feeling that wont be the case, however i want to get it p...

LIVESTREAM!

Its on!! JULY's slightly delayed livestream! click through to the youtube to join the chat :)

VLOG 59 THE MEGAMACHINE IS GETTING MEGGGGAAA

yeah its definitely coming along, i was feeling a little overwhelmed by this project but the fact that these massive bus boards are working without a hitch and the second case makes it look humungous is the nudge i need. im trying to get the machine done for people to come see at my XOYO show in london. but who knows. i still have a heck of a lot to do! but who knows. 

PETSYNTH SAMPLES :)

Todays vid!! commodore PET SYNTH finally got its own vid! :)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jd583vx4h863ri2/AABRWEZN9W-arWkb9cbT7Fuba?dl=0

ITS ALIVE! And Livestream News!

So first of all lets chat livestream. As i spoke about in last nights vlog it will be occuring a tiny bit later than usual and without a vote! turns out i have a lot of projects to get through these evenings as a lot of video projects are sitting needing to be completed and fired out. Amongst other things. ALSO! a visit from Dr Mix on monday :). So this livestream will be on

TUESDAY 6th AUGUST at 8:30 PM BST.    This will not effect the next livestream which will be in th...

VLOG 57 Gameboy Megamachine Big Boards! and more

sorry i was away over the weekend! you can see what happenned in the latest vid that went to youtube last night about a cool project with just a 9volt battery and the ability to conduct through people to trigger synths!. but here is plenty to catch up on!

Ill let you know about the livestream! its a tad later than usual the festival over the weekend took over most of the livestream kind of timing but ill come with a date tomorrow :)

The first iteration of the Tuner module is coming along!

i know i know, im backing up a fair few projects to get videos out! i'm going through bit by bit on the fart box i haven't finished filming it, to send a perfect working one off to kursa and get this vid out on how to build it!! 

As for the filter, im a little unsure how to move on, basically as you know its the filter in my modular its always been the filter ive used and it was the first one i turned to pcb like you saw in the last vid, It serves its purpose for my personal use ho...

VLOG 56. the PCB'ing of my modular has begun!

so a lot has happenned in the time between last nights update and this! :)

VLOG 55 i made New instrument today!

So yes! inbetween soldering all of the gameboy boards for the other case for the gameboy mega machine this is what i was up to this weekend. a video will be about in the next few days :)

THIS WEEKS VID AND AUDIO

here we go! i kinda prefer the other version tbh but the question has been answered!!!!! syncing up the commodore 64 and the song from the last video. up to my synthesizers via another computer haha.

VLOG 54

First things first! FART BOXES im working on that video at the end of this week im building a fully functioning one for kursa and documenting it with a video. but ryan peacher was eager enough to pull a BOM off of the pcb as all of the components are labelled :-https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DJFKooefsL-sErRvynaODwfEZe6ILGkZ/view

HOWEVER POTS ARE WRONG. 100k for everything exc...

LMNC - COMMODORE 64 BACKSLASH BACKLASH

heres the audio "Backslash Backlash" from a video that should be up either today or tomorrow! depending if i can fit the rest of the video editing in my ever growing to do list today haha.

So basically if you havent guessed it, the next vid is on the commodore 64. and a program called MSSIAH which has a program called SEQUENCER which is sort of like cubase or logic or whatever, but for Commodore 64!  this song i made last night, it took a long damn while. i thought it was only gunn...

BUS BOARD! and yeah next vid delayed!!! aaaah

so good news. finally the bus board is done, should have it intime for the next update next weekend about the gameboy megamachines next step. what your looking at is a big pcb board that houses 16 VCA's and an LED backlight sequencer. this will be in charge of routing each gameboy in a row to either channel 1 or channel 2 to be routed to wherever in the analog part of the synth. its not modular as each row needs to be matched, so there will be 6 of these in parallel running up the gameboy meg...

Vlog 53 Bus Board VCA, new simple vca!

so yeah had a change of heart on the bus boards and went full hog, and instead of relays, or even what paul suggested which was analog switches, i ended up going down the VCA route, with 2 VCA's per gameboy to send to 1 of two different audio lines,  going with VCA's mean not just on and offs of the audio can be achieved, everything inbetween can be reached too, im not sure how useful it will be but i figured it was worth having the option! here is a drop box with the Schematic of the VC...

VLOG 52 GAMEBOY SWITCHING MATRIX BUS BOARD