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Here’s my most recent ‘thing’ (which I have already posted on here, but just in case you missed it).

I’ve actually just finished a new version of the PCB which is considerably narrower (8HP).

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I’ve made a little case with 3 of these in all running different firmware. See www.cutlasses.co.uk for a bit more info…

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#42

Nice. What are the features of the firmware variants?

#43

There’s the GlitchDelay, which was inspired by some of the Aleph patches from @dspk

The other one is still a work in progress. I’m calling it KhronoKrusher, it’s a delay (with adjstable lo-pass filter on feedback), going into reverb (freeverb), and finally into a bitcrusher. The plans is to be able to use it like a standard delay/reverb, and use the bitcrusher to splutter out the reverb tails.

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#44

@marcus_fischer demo of the 3 firmware variants here

https://youtu.be/5j84GfI8yQM

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#45

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DIY cracklebox, VHS tape stylophones and MFOS synth box housed in cigar boxes

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#46

Does this count?:

My friends and I built a full size TARDIS console that’s a midi controller with ableton under the hood.

Daytime view

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#47

Oooooooo how do the VHS stylophones work? Any directions online? They look so fun.

#48

Let me see if I can dig up documentation for it :sweat_smile:. I built it as part of a circuit building course a while ago.

It basically functions like a stylophone except pitch is not stepped (just glissando) with a tremolo section that can self-oscillate. The one on the bottom right has 2 tapes (I think VHS + 1/4") wired in series for more range.

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#50

Looks like the Lil Sid I made in February, but more refined! Beautiful job!

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#51

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Working on a spring drone instrument. there is a piezo in the metal can at the end. It’s not as noisey as id like it and I need to experiment more with differnt springs and tin cans. Also getting the ebows at just the right height takes some doing…if I had angled the spring height from bridge to can it would have been better.

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#52

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odd ball percussion clacker toy sculpture

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i tried drilling each of the heatsink fins to a differnt depth to get each click sounding a different note but the effect was pretty subtle. the fact that i didnt quite get the spindle central and the attack varies from loud to soft makes more of a difference.

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#54

Looks neat, would bowing it work?

#55

never tried bowing springs…sort of sceptical but theres no reason not to try it. Ill report back…

#56

All of these look so interesting. I’m really curious about getting into building hardware synths by hand but I’m not exactly sure where to start. Anyone happen to have some starting points or tips to share? I’d really appreciate it a lot.

#57

@pichenettes has some great advice:
https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/4crhnd/hi_im_olivier_from_mutable_instruments_ask_me/

Peter Blasser has a very different kind of advice:
http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/paper/

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#58

Hey, thank you so much for this! I’m gonna get on these first thing in the morning.

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#59

Sorry? Did the world miss this post from a few years ago? This is amazing!! Great work

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#60

The hard part with the VHS stylophone is finding the correct type of tape. Most of the tapes I tested where not conductive. I resorted to using graphite pencil on plastic film similar to vellum (Tracing) paper. I was attempting to build a touch ribbon. My last attempt I applied the pencil to wide and the resistance was way to low.

Search for diy ribbon controllers for a wealth of information