Tocante Karper Demo Video

By Richard on January 3, 2016

I’m learning the Tocante Karper, one of the latest in the line of Tocantes by Peter Blasser.   Here’s a demo video in which I show some of the playing technique … Read More

Explaining the Quantussy Schematic

By Richard on November 22, 2015

You can find a lot of posts here, under the cocoquantus and the quantisise tags, where I have explained the architecture of the five oscillator cluster in the Cocoquantus.  The … Read More

All-Modular House Concert Recordings

By Richard on November 11, 2015

Recordings from the Brewster House Concert on November 10, 2015. Richard Brewster   Ork Haugr   Khristian Rosakruz   Walker Vincent Farrell  

Biometric Synthesizer

By Richard on October 16, 2015

Here’s a miniature synthesizer, purpose built to work with my biometric modules.  In addition to the brainwave and muscle sensing control modules, it has two VCOs, two VCA/ring modulators, and … Read More

Pittsburgh Modular Cell 48 Case

By Richard on October 16, 2015

I decided to aggregate my two biometric modules — the SoundMachines Brain Wave interface and the ADDAC Systems Muscle Sensing — into a small Eurorack case that would also hold … Read More

New Controller Tryout

By Richard on September 3, 2015

I’ve built a new manual controller that I’ll describe in a future post.  It let’s me be more creative with improvisation.  This doesn’t sound much like anything I’ve done before!

Unknown Pleasures

By Richard on August 26, 2015

Razmasynth Unknown Pleasures Unknown Pleasures is an Analog Tactile Noise Generator who use finger’s contact to produce sounds from Low Frequency oscillations to High Frequency Noise. When the metal pads … Read More

Rollz-5 Modification – Added 3-Rolls

By Richard on August 17, 2015

When I built the Meng Qi Rollz-5 PC board, among the many modifications I made was to simplify the rolls oscillators by making them all just two-transistor circuits, i.e. ‘2-rolls’.  … Read More

Seven Petals

By Richard on August 14, 2015

Adding another SSG module allowed me to patch up a Quantisise-like collaboration, consisting of a Smooth section LFO, and two Stepped sections as the sample and holds.  I then patched … Read More

Serge VCFQ and Serge Wave Shapers

By Richard on August 10, 2015

This 5U panel contains three CGS PC boards. Serge VCFQ The VARIABLE Q VCF (VCFQ) is an excellent general-purpose VCF offering simultaneous low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and notch (band-reject) outputs. The … Read More