Anyone have experience with a namasitar build? Not sure what these symbols mean - piezo?


I haven’t built this one but I relabeled your photo with what I know from other builds.
Hope this helps!

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totally! its mostly that seagull 3 point thing that’s a headscratcher… maybe it’s for a bridge? i noticed on peter’s website it’s a 3 string lute he build these out with ?

Now that look at it again, it might be a trim pot. It’s a different symbol than in the generassic organ but it makes sense with the resistor like sawtooth and the offset triangle of pins.

That’s my guess also just looking at the layout

I don’t know if this helps, but here is a photo of Meng Qi’s namastitar PCB on which parts are more conventionally IDed:

Thanks everyone! I’ll throw a trim pot in there and report back

In the Osmond PCB file it’s called “wtrim”, so it’s definitely a trim pot. As to what value to use - there are no clues! :slight_smile:

For those who are interested in building the paper circuits, and have Macs, it’s worth downloading Osmond PCB and then downloading Peter’s repository of paper circuits in Osmond PCB format from the bottom of this page (papers.zip link). The entire page is useful, though:
http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/TIMARACURRICULUM/TIMARATERIALS/cirques/index.html

The names of the symbols in Osmond give a good hint as to what they are.

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Added a trim pot and still had no effect on the piezo it was processing :confused: ah well. My big rollz5 is coming along really well! Recycled a faulty build of cv controlled rolls (doh) so I’ll be remaking it tomorrow, wish me luck

https://share.icloud.com/photos/05l7zXBSrhDpeQAhm44cWpqyw

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In love with CL concept of modular I have very good hardware synth but nothing sound like that and I guess nothing is that versatile in such a small format

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That is a really beautiful Sid :heart_eyes:

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Did you use any kind of regulation for eurorack voltages into Dogvoice?
I just built mine today and was thinking of adding zener diodes but not sure it’s really necessary…

No, I didn’t. I’m not totally clear what voltage swings the Dogvoice can handle to be honest.

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New Cocoquantus owner here :heart_eyes:

Does anyone know if it is safe to patch multiple outputs to the banana delay/loop inputs on coco? I’ve read that on PB stacking multiple outputs to inputs is OK but haven’t been able to find the same info regarding coco…

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Yes it is encouraged.

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Thanks! ×20 characters

after resisting looking into this stuff for a long time, I’ve finally decided to look into the CL stuff more (funny reading this thread and hearing that that seems to be a common story for people), and there’s a whole lot of interesting things!

I’ve been wanting to do more DIY projects, and it seems like the gerassic organ, might be a cool starting point. You’re videos on it have been incredible @mlogger I had a question:

this one of yours seems to have a bit more aggressive (sawtooth-ish waveform) sound:

than this one (which has a more triangle-y sound to me):


Love the idea of the first with all the control, and the timbre of the second. From your comment the second, instead of the pots, uses "103 (0.01uf) treble hairy resistor and 100k knob on the x resistor "

Could you dial the timbre you are getting on the second in with your pot-based organ, or is there something different about what resistances the pot can do for the “treble hairy resistor” (is that on a pot, actually), vs. your other one? this might be obvious, I’m definitely a noob when it comes to understanding the circuits

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Has anyone here built a DDDM2 via the paper circuit (Master Brando and Madame Brasser)?
I’m trying to figure out the “marriage” of the two boards, specifically: did you connect the cross nodes as shown on the Brando page AND connect the inner and outer cross nodes on the Brasser as well?

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I ended up putting pots on everything. You can dial in the timbre on both. Thats a typo - It’s a treble hairy capacitor. I made a big switch that changes octaves ranges and put on different capacitor ranges.

This is OTT you really only need 3 or 4 capacitors going from subbass to high end

This is a Gerassic

and so is this

The way I use it is with a Count to 5 pedal and punch in notes into a loop. Then I pitch further with the Count to 5 knobs. I then run it through an Industrialectic Echo Degrader for lofi delays and hiss and sometimes record it to a tape loop or a cocoquantus. If it goes to the Coco, I’ll bypass the Echodegrader.

You see see here the way I play with the pitch of the original loop.

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Edit: at 1 am when your whole set up sounds weird and broken, go to bed. Don’t trouble shoot and ask people about it on the internet’s.

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