Justmat
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that looks too cool! i’d love to see the details 
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jlmitch5
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the layout and colors of this are fantastic. do you have a shot of the internals by chance, very interested to see how you made this.
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Pot for each axis acts as a voltage divider.
Buttons are just momentary normally closed switches. The way I’m planning on wiring it will result in the same voltage being sent to the out of both buttons (that I can pass through to individual outs for each by holding the button down).
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Helen
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I’m not 100% sure but I have a feeling that Insta pages aren’t visible if you don’t have an account, so just in case (and anyway ‘for the record’) here’s what PB wrote:
ciat_lonbarde Guys. In a few days I will be closing my ordering page and preparing to move it all to Berlin… please don’t panic at this announcement though; you can expect to find my detail woodworking coming from somewhere in East Germany! Don’t know how long we will be gone yet but it may quite probably involve the school year.
Thanks to all my American customers. Bay area, Minnesota, PNW, east coast, the south, I love you all. We’ve always understood each other since the Bushyears, and my business owes a lot to you. I will try to have a brief popup store once a year in the portland lagerhaus, to satisfy your local walnut and shipping needs. We are off before the new year. Enjoy your new president!
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I have been considering a stuber for a while but I’m not sure how much “normal” filtering I could get out of it if that was the goal. I get that it isn’t the point of the instrument though.
I have however been really considering selling my coco2 these last couple weeks maybe this is a sign.
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Definitely a big change. I feel like the signs were there though. There were recent price increases, probably to bring their prices more in line with patch point. Overall, though, I’m sure this has more to do with personal (i.e. family) reasons, than professional/commercial reasons.
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Jonny
2167
I wonder if korg took him up on the proposal he sent them (http://petermopar.blogspot.com/2020/06/proposal-for-korg.html).
This would be pretty cool.
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“been considering stuber for a while”
Your enthusiasm for the stuber in ciat groups far and wide is half the reason why there was so much excitement when it came out in the first place!
Understatement of the thread!
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Zeke_B
2169
Was literally planning to order Coco and PB at the end of this month or end of Jan… Hopefully the shop reopens and shipping to the US continues in early 2021!
@Jonny - that blog post is really cool and it would be awesome if that was a part of this move.
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bluetung
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I think that move is to just oversee the production at Patch Point, he had said at some point in this Single Malt Synthesis interview with Hainbach that he was considering spending a few months of the year there to check in and make sure the woodworking is up to his standard etc, but now it seems like he’ll be moving there indefinitely. I’m sure he’d rather outsource things properly than be personally soldering every last joint for the rest of his life.
I’d be very surprised if it was because Korg has taken him up on that proposal - he’s an absolute genius but not the kind I would imagine that a traditional synth manufacturer like Korg would hire, however deserving. Either way, it’s great to see him thriving and to know that CL is growing
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Jonny
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Yeah, it seems unlikely he’s moving for Korg and more likely about Patch Point…but at the same time also interesting because he did propose working with Korg and they are opening an experimental r+d sort of outfit in Berlin. Hey maybe both?! Guess we’ll find out eventually.
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serioko
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I saw that insta post and that was the kick in the pants I needed to finally order a cocoquantus. Had the money lined up already after selling some stuff (including Magneto, Clouds, Rings, and a few other things), and fate forced me to make a move. Hopefully he’s already got some built or is finishing up final orders before taking off across the pond. It was really important to me that my unit be built by Peter himself. I admire him greatly and can’t wait to join this little world of Ciat-Lonbarde.
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Helen
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…and now over to our Berlin correspondent…
patchpoint: Peter’s last wood stash arrived in Berlin! Instruments are coming!
Shyntns Tocante!! Sidrax Tetrax. The last cocos with glass ever!
[Edited to include Insta link]
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chorus7
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Man I’m kicking myself! So close to pulling the trigger on a Shnth (yet again) but wasn’t going to be ready until January 
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Jonny
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yeah…I’ve been thinking about a Sidrax and was waiting till early next year, decided to go for it now. Looks like a lot of the line is gone from the store page!
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Zeke_B
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Yeah, no more PB or Coco anymore… Just going to have to order from Patch Point and pay the €>$ premium and import taxes. 
Seriously not even upset about that though. With all the crap things 2020 brought and all of the businesses that closed, I’m grateful Peter is still in business and these will still be available. Prices increasing at retail is nothing compared to what they would be on Reverb if he was closing up shop, even for a year. Definitely ordering as soon as I have the funds and not putting this off.
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Helen
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If you’re thinking about it, do it while you can, I’d say, from my vantage point on this increasingly isolated, rainy plague island - Just heard that Deutsche Post (a part of DHL, apparently) has suspended all deliveries into the UK, so even if I was thinking of another CL instrument (I’m not), it would have to wait, for sure!
I was like 100% set on selling my coco just last week (after a month of so of going back and forth in my head)
but with this news I think I’m totally set.
I love the ciat line but I’ve just spent too much time with video synthesis and not enough with audio to keep so much synth. I don’t think that will be changing anytime soon.
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