Petal On Its Own

By Richard on December 11, 2011

This week’s cocoquantus patch again utilizes the CGS Tube VCA as a timbre enhancer.  This time not only do the coco outputs each pass through one of these, in addition … Read More

Could It Get Some?

By Richard on December 4, 2011

The cocoquantus with two of its oscillators patched back into the coco inputs, patched through the Uhbik phaser VST plugin in Audio Mulch.  I twiddled with the cocoquantus controls during … Read More

Aleatoric Croaks

By Richard on November 27, 2011

The Cocoquantus integrates well with the main synthesizer.  All I need is cables with a phone plug on one end and an alligator clip on the other.  In the patch … Read More

Buchla Dual 281 FG

By Richard on November 27, 2011

This is a DIY Buchla 281 Function Generator, built on the printed circuit board by Toppobrillo.  The discussion on Muff’s message board has the details.  It’s actually one half of … Read More

Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus

By Richard on November 26, 2011

The Cocoquantus from Ciat-Lonbarde is a most unusual instrument for electronic music.  Not many electronic instrument can claim, “materials include: Walnut, Sassafras, Juniper, Cherry, circuit board, transistors, capacitors, and resistors… … Read More

Cocopuffs for Dinner

By Richard on November 25, 2011

The mail lady just delivered my Cocoquantus!  I’ve only just started playing with it.  Here’s my first recording.  I created a simple drone patch using one Buchla 258J VCO, modulated … Read More

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

By Richard on October 30, 2011

Yesterday I happened to listen to some of Ancient Eyeball Recipe (Nelson Baboon) on Soundcloud.  It inspired me to get back to my roots, whatever they may be.  So today … Read More

Four Low Pass Filters

By Richard on October 29, 2011

There are lots of excellent sounding filters available in modular land.  I have a pretty good collection, myself.  Well, today I tried doing a comparison of four different 4-pole (24 … Read More

Mattson VCF

By Richard on October 29, 2011

Quantity 1 Here is a DIY Mattson Mini Modular VCF in a MOTM panel.  George Mattson’s description: 4-Pole, 24dB/Octave State Variable Filter jointly designed by Synth DIY guru Jim Patchell … Read More

Bluesy Wet

By Richard on August 28, 2011

Here’s another recording of the sequence patch described in the previous post.  This version uses post-processing with the Uhbik-D dynamics plugin.  I started with the Left-To-Right preset and tweaked the … Read More