Ciat-Lonbard Tocante

By Richard on February 28, 2015

Tocante Bistab is my latest instrument acquisition from Ciat-Lonbarde.  Order at SynthMall.  Tocante is yet another masterful creation by Peter Blasser.  It is one of his more pure designs: a … Read More

Rollz-5 Quad Drone

By Richard on February 6, 2015

This drone uses four identical patches within Rollz-5.  The square wave oscillator is patched through a Gong, used as a filter, and then through AVDog, used as a VCA.  AVDogs … Read More

Texture

By Richard on January 24, 2015

Here’s a Cocoquantus piece.  It is a single sample from the Sidrax, made to circulate, with the coco time delays being controlled from the Quantussy.  I intervened a few times … Read More

Rollz-5 Experiments

By Richard on January 21, 2015

First a dark drone that uses AVDogs and Ultrasounds Next a rhythmic section created by Gongs with an external digital echo. Next a combination of external processing with E560 and … Read More

Rollz 5 patched running

Rollz-5 Completed

By Richard on January 20, 2015

Here’s the assembled Rollz-5 project! The whole assembly can operate outside of its box.  Here it is being tested.  To the right you can see the power inlet, ground jack, … Read More

Rollz-5 First Tryout

By Richard on January 18, 2015

The Rollz-5 is finished!  Full update to come.  Here is a little tryout recording.

Rollz-5 Assembly Progress

By Richard on January 8, 2015

The Meng Qi Rollz-5 PC board project in mid-assembly stage. The image above shows the PC board mounted behind a clear plexiglass panel that holds pots, jacks, switches, etc., sitting … Read More

Inline Attenuators

By Richard on January 8, 2015

When patching to CV inputs on Ciat-Lonbarde instruments (Cocoquantus, Plumbutter, Sidrax) it can be useful to add some attenuating ability.  For example, if I want to control the frequency of … Read More

Processed Plumbutter

By Richard on December 29, 2014

Here’s a self-running patch that runs Plumbutter (using one half, i.e. one AVDog, one Gong, and one Ultrasound) through the Synthesis Tech E560 and E580 and also a Blacet Time … Read More