I will soon be posting about Audrey II from Synthux Academy. The diagram above is a screenshot from a video explaining the design of Audrey II. It shows a feedback … Read More

I patch and play my customized Rollz-5, built on a PC board by Meng Qi with circuits designed by Peter Blasser of Ciat-Lonbarde. These circuits are early versions of what … Read More

As in a boquet of springs. Sound generation in this piece comes from four oscillators in the DIY Quantussy. Each of the oscillators is pitch modulated by a Castle (S&H) … Read More

After finding a sweet spot with the Fyrall self-patching, I brought two outputs into two stereo comb filters, one in Vult Freak, and the other in FX Aid Pro and … Read More

Another Fyrall patch, this time including DIY Tetrazzi. The pulse waves from Tetrazzi are useful for patching to the violet jacks on Fyrall. Since these inputs flip the counter bits … Read More

Here’s a weird (what other kind is there) patch of Ciat-Lonbarde Fyrall (on right) with DIY Quantussy (on left), plus the Dubernator dual filter and my DIY Quad VCA.

I’ve understood it, modified it, built it into a plexiglass case. The hardest part was figuring out how it all interconnects internally. I won’t attempt to explain that here. Instead, … Read More

It’s been a month since I last posted. Now getting back to the Fyrall project. I’m calling it Fyrall Mutant, because I’ve made a number of modifications from Peter Blasser’s … Read More

It’s alive! The Fyrall board is assembled, with some of the modifications I discussed previously. I’m still working out the the panel design. The panel has to come last, because … Read More

I played the rig above for a couple of sets at the Cesspool of Synths, July 2nd this year at the Center for Connection + Collaboration. This case has most … Read More