Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

I had been experiencing pitch instability on my 258J VCOs. It seems that the frequency pots had become scratchy, because by rotating them a few times the instability would stop. … Read More

The Dannysound Cali Osc is one of two new, analog VCOs available from Thonk only as DIY kits. The Cali oscillator is a new and improved version of the classic … Read More

My work process often involves visualizing and then drawing out a patch diagram for complex control with feedback.  The patch shown uses all of the modules from the patch of … Read More

The control portion of this patch uses Stages as six sample and holds, Just Friends in Cycle/Shape mode, Four Tromsø, and Ultra Random Analog.  The audio portion is Loquelic Iteritas … Read More

I thought these two would play well together.  

Befaco A*B+C turned out to have a noise floor issue.  Befaco issued a schematic diagram with the fix.  I’ve done this modification and confirmed that the noise level is no … Read More

Sheep is an alternative software for Mutable Instruments Tides.  I decided to flash my Tides with Sheep to make it into a full time wave table oscillator.  I found I … Read More

This module is an effect.  But I didn’t misspell the title of the post.  I did mean affect, as the conscious aspect of an emotion. In automatic music the machines … Read More

Stages segment generator is called the Modulation Construction Set.  It is a brilliant design in the true spirit of modular synthesis.  There is no preconception of how it should be … Read More