rollz-5

Roolz plus Mimeophon

By Richard on April 17, 2021

What to do with the new 5-6-Roolz? (Insert scratchy head emoticon.) How about having it control Make Noise Mimeophon? Yeah, let’s make some noise! Patch is pictured above. The two … Read More

DIY 5-6 Roolz

By Richard on April 16, 2021

Most who are familiar with the circuit design work of Peter Blasser know about the Rollz. It first appeared as the ROLLZ-5 Drum Machine. The Rollz-5 PC board, designed by … 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

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

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

Rollz-5 Schematics

By Richard on July 1, 2014

This is the Rollz-5+ PC Board by Meng Qi.  The circuits follow fairly closely the original paper circuits, designed by Peter Blasser.  I am building it with modifications of my … Read More