Richard Brewster's Electronic Sounds

A manual mixing of eight tracks.  

Today’s automatic music patch.  This is an entirely new control patch that runs all events off random pulses, which might explain its more random sound than some of my other … Read More

The Dannysound EN129 Thru-Zero Oscillator is one of a pair of DIY only oscillator kits from Thonk.  See my post about the Cali Osc, too. The EN129 Oscillator is based … Read More

Upon reading more about John Cage, one of my great influences for reasons I don’t really fathom, I came across a quote where he talked about mixing many tracks together.  … Read More

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