Dudes fsr box run

[dude]

ah the frown hath provided prior than expected. an unlikely but quite welcome surprise on this saturdayest of saturdayze

[dude]

the first 3 in queue finished and tested!

next 5 soon as soon as soon as i can do. have busy work week and wife’s bday friday and a lot going on but these are my little lovelies so thank y’all for the opportunity to make boxenproliferation

[dude]

more and more progress getting made. another will ship today as discussed w/@myecholalia

my modular is so slow in growing that the box i had planned for myself (which partially instigated this whole run) won’t begin to have functional use for likely months or even years… so i suppose i can offer the one last unspoken for box if anybody wanted to jump into last spot of queue of 8.

[dude]

2 more shipped today!

1 available!

couple more 2 finish line on this run!

[quixot]

This thing is great! Thanks again for making these. So many potential uses that I could totally see having 2 of these. Wonderful!

[dude]

2 more done and contacted about shipping.

one final i am building up in 3.5mm and will shortly be available. final of run and then unlikely another run for a while, who knows, maybe ever i dunno. but i do love making them when a group are in order. thanks all again for making this possible!

[dermo]

Yesssss looks killer!

[dude]

ok! the whole run is complete, tested and mostly shipped. all communications updated and everybody either has or should be getting their boxen very shortly (aside from 2 international shipped today which will take a sec so watch the tracking i sent )

i made up and tested the last box today in 3.5mm as my modular is soooo far from ready to interact with AND our water main blew so they’re thankfully coming tomorrow to replace it but the cash is needed. so if anyone wants this here built, tested and wrapped 3.5mm dual fsr box… it’s yours! or tell your f®iends

[dude]

we have water now, and somebody spoke up for the last one. and i wanna do more runs. so i made some crap videos. but mostly i’m so grateful to have water again flowing into my house. wow what i take for granted in my life, every fn day. can make me or one feel nauseous.

have a nice day and thank you for this lil chapter.

[philmaguire]

How are you mounting the FSRs to the top of the box?

[dude]

they have an adhesive layer.

[dermo]

Woop! My banana FSR just arrived at my desk in sunny UK. Looks awesome, can’t wait to try it out. Thanks @dude!

[dermo]

Yep, serious fun!
Crosspatching fms from two oscillators into each other via the FSR pads - awesome.
Feeding in 10v DC to both FSRs and plugging the outs to drum triggers for finger drumming - awesome.
DC voltage via FSRs to Filters, LPGs, VCAs - awesome!

[xeric]

Maybe a dumb question, but I was hoping to use this in one hand while playing Earthsea in the other hand, but I’ve had some difficulty getting a full range of values (usually end up going from 0%-100% very quickly) – I haven’t yet experimented with materials on top of the sensors, should I be using foam or something? I’m thinking like controlling the air input on Mangrove to manually control vibrato, or do swells etc. I’m not sure if I should be focused more on the FSR side of things, or change the way I patch things to smooth it out (I tried patching through Cold Mac’s slope input, for instance).

Any advice would be appreciated

[dude]

the pressure is very sensitive. so you can focus on a few angles.

one trick is to use a corner for touch so a very small surface area to allow for greater control

another is to patch slew on in output (or in even?) to allow a slurring of signals

and another is to put something soft on top of the pad and you’ll change how pressure is interpreted by device.

it is a bit of an instrument regarding the fine motor skill sensitivity, which i always found helpful rather harmful in terms of learning curve. and then always some way to kludge a patch if some aspect isn’t responding in the desired way.

i do believe its completely open nature inspires creativity in patching.

and there are no dumb questions (i’m happy to discuss at length any aspect in public or private!)

[xeric]

Thanks for the advice! I hadn’t considered using a corner at all, so that is super helpful.

I just had a vision, of a patchwork of different surfaces on the device at once, so I can very quickly try out different responses of different materials, and quickly change the sensitivity on the fly by touching different areas of the pad I’m gonna need to digging around in my basement for different types of foam and rubber

[dude]

that idea is one ive never tried and would be helpful for experimentation but also probably for some aspect of performance oriented patching if specific materials ticked various approach boxes. i guess that is what i mean about kind of letting it lead you in patching. nothing going in as far i have ever seen has done any harm. they are just resistors so you can explore a lot of territory.

[adrianf]

HI Xeric, I’ve had success with sending a lower offset to the FSR box - so instead of +8V from stages, i send something like +5V.

[xeric]

Ended up using some cardboard with good results! Haven’t tried different materials yet, but a combination of a lower input offset (instead of just attenuating the output) and making use of corners (great for vibrato!) has been made this box sound really amazing.
Paired with Earthsea, I can now play much more expressive phrases

I especially like modulating the delay time on Chronoblob with pitch shifting enabled (feels like I’m manually pushing on a tape loop!) as well as spreading the span on 3 Sisters (fun take on a wah-wah sounds).

Another useful (and simple) trick I used is to mult the outputs so I could modulate either mono-synth in my setup (I switch back and forth between Earthsea controlling Just Friends in sound mode and a MIDI keyboard controlling a pair of Mangroves, and I didn’t want to have to choose between the two )

[dude]

finally got around to building/testing a shiny pad version to keep for my modular use. mouser offered different parts so i like to see what is around. so many different but seemingly “the same” versions of the square fsr.

the corners feel a bit different but can get that smooth edge work via middle of each edge.

noiasueating audio use test:

Magic from Space / Behind You