#942

hope you offloaded enough for cables too! Bananas are $$, and CL instruments (pb in particular, yowch) tend to love them.

Pomona are kind of the gold standard, but $ or DIY are your options there.

These are pretty nice and reasonably priced when they get back in stock https://www.ctrl-mod.com/collections/cables/products/buchla-banana-cable

I also have a bunch of https://store.kilpatrickaudio.com/product/banana-10 which are, not great feeling or looking but I haven’t had any issues with and the price is right.

If I were starting from 0 I’d probably go the buchla or pomona route though.

Don’t forget you’ll want some longer ones for interfacing between the two machines, and don’t forget that your banana gear needs to be grounded to anything you’re sharing voltage with! (unlike euro which carries ground on the cable). On CL gear this is usually a black jack on the side/rear.

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#944

if you are in the UK or EU buy them (honestly even if you aren’t it is pretty worth it!) get them from the bug brand shop

https://www.bugbrand.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=24&products_id=131

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#945

Modular Addict has good cables for a good price too. They feel like the Buchla cables but the connection is looser than Pomonas. There green color is a really pretty teal, kinda like jazz solo cups.

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#946

You’ll need at least 40 just for the PB alone.

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#947

I know nothing about the store, but kmraudio.com have the Buchla cables on sale now, less than half the normal price at 2.50 £. Unfortunately the shipping to Norway was 80 £ (!). But for those in the UK it might be a good deal.

#948

thanks everyone :slight_smile:

can anyone point me towards PSUs for both coco2 and pb2?

#949

I ordered a couple of these and never had any issues with them. I’m sure anything with the same specs will work just fine.

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#950

This is an amazing combination, thanks.

Stereo audio into AV > Banana to stereo minijack into Gongs > Gong banana outs into coco loopers. AV CV out into coco looper fm.

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#951

yes! plugging in and out of the PB really made me think differently about the instrument

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#952

Just “completed” my setup with a DeerCocoDeer. I’ve been wanting a Cocoquantus for probably a decade or something, but after three nights with this I have trouble imagining it without deerhorns attached.

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#953

Working on circuit ideas and find myself wanting a controllably-random pulse generator similar to the BDUSOU section of the Dunst; ie random but with the overall speed knob-controllable from slow sporadic clicks to fast crackly noise. If I build the following, from the fourses page, would that basically be the same thing? (I would presumably need to add the power supply circuit and the exp convertors which are represented by triangle-into-circle here) -

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…and/or does anyone know any other good circuits to create this kind of signal?

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#954

I have a Meng Qi Sidraw on it’s way to me currently, super excited. I never played a sidrazzi/sidrax but always loved the sweeter softer tones compared to my tetrax’s tendency to venture off into the harsher waveshapes very easily, but I have always preferred those oddly shaped spikey waves as Low frequency modulation sources. It seems like the sidraw sort of has the best of both worlds, along with touch capacitive playing. Can’t wait to give it a spin… seems like I have 6 more days til it arrives

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#955

Nice, did you find one second hand or had one built? I’ve always thought they sounded like a rawer Sidrax.

#956

He made 3 recently on top of the 2 already in existence from a good while back. I coincidentally emailed him about them a little bit before any of the new videos or indication of a new batch surfaced to inquire about getting one as I spent so much of this year listening to and loving his Sidrolz album. He told me the 3 were already taken by people that had been on a waiting list for a long time, but as luck would have it one of them dropped out and he offered it to me :slight_smile: super lucky as I can see lots of people on instagram asking for one!

#959

Thanks for sharing - I was wondering how you managed to get one. It didn’t seem evident that it was going to be a product regularly for sale. It looks great, and fun. I’m hoping he gets some traction on bringing his products to the world, they all look beautiful and well thought-out.

#960

Think the Wing Pinger is supposed to be the first proper production instrument from MQ, that one is definitely looking awesome!

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#961

My entire body is ready for the Wing Pinger. Sorry, just had to mention that.

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#962

I’m really hoping the new teasing PB did on instagram is about a stuber/duber
I’ve been bugging him about that instrument for a while now
even though I’m deeply in the video synth trenches and am not really playing with the audio stuff I’d buy one right away

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#963

Does Meng’s Gestural Arcade for the Double Knot count as a production instrument? I have one of those for my Cowboy Callosum and it’s amazing. The Pinger has been impinging on my thoughts as well

#964

Stuber would be awesome, I’d definitely have one too

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