Drone with PB BB and Serge

By Richard on February 2, 2013

Plumbutter, BugBrand, and CGS Serge all use banana jacks.  I did some serious cross-patching among the three for this little drone that uses two BugBrand VCOs, each processed with a … Read More

Bananas

By Richard on January 19, 2013

My banana cabinet is finished! It combines 5U modules, a rack of BugBrand, and my custom CGS Serge panel into one cabinet. Note the vertical alignment between the CGS Serge … Read More

BugBrand PRC2B Noise Crusher

By Richard on January 19, 2013

The Noise Crusher is a versatile modular clocked sample and hold. Like many sample and holds (S&H) it offers a white noise source and a clock together with the S&H … Read More

Tetrazzi Frequency Shifted

By Richard on January 13, 2013

I moved the Modular Tetrazzi into the same cabinet as the BugBrand and CGS Serge modules.  Here’s a patch using the BugBrand frequency shifter to process Tetrazzi.  BugBrand Dual LPG … Read More

Comb Filter Bank Demo

By Richard on January 13, 2013

I have a complicated patch with two VCOs and four sample and holds, a meager attempt to simulate some Cocoquantus behavior, a ‘duotussy’.  It includes a pair of Clee LPGs … Read More

Soundmagic Spectral Dronemaker

By Richard on January 11, 2013

Sometimes I play with DSP plugins.  I was trying out the SoundMagic Spectral Beta 6 by Michael Norris and patched the Cocoquantus, self-modulating, into the stereo Spectral Dronemaker.  This was … Read More

Quartussy

By Richard on January 5, 2013

After I had sussed out the Cocoquantus schematic and understood the internal relationships among the five oscillators that Peter B. calls the Quantussy section, I began to wonder what it … Read More

CGS Serge Wave Multipliers

By Richard on January 5, 2013

The CGS Serge Wave Multipliers is the fourth and final module in my CGS Serge banana jack panel.  Please read Ken Stone’s CGS 113 notes. The board contains three independent … Read More

Twenty thirteen

By Richard on December 31, 2012

A strange drone produced with CGS Serge, including the SSG, BugBrand, and Cocoquantus.   I did some mixing during the recording.

CGS Serge SSG

By Richard on December 31, 2012

This is my take on the legendary Serge Smooth and Stepped Generator (SSG).  I received the SSG PC board as a compliment from Ken Stone, who designed the board.  The … Read More