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[papernoise]

I am intrigued by the olive oil can reverb and would love to hear more about it. These photos are super inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

I’ll try to record something once I have some more tests. Let’s see if I can get it to work!

This morning I’m playing around with striking springs with a hard drive actuator.

Very interesting! Is there springs mounted onto the actuator that hit the springs on the reverb tank?

I love that contact mic’d kazoo. I’ve done a bit with contact mics but never thought to try that. Seems so obvious now, to see one built.

I myself saw one online and thought kind of the same thing. I have to add that something is weird with my build. Maybe it’s just a crappy piezo, but I get a bad low frequency hum. Also one thing I hadn’t properly considered is that I have to create a new exit for air&sound, now that the piezo is covering the original one.

[Rodrigo]

Oh nice.

What are the arm things?

[scazan]

of course! this one features it fairly prominently: https://awavepress.bandcamp.com/album/ingress

[pulplogic]

This morning I’m playing around with striking springs with a hard drive actuator.

Very interesting! Is there springs mounted onto the actuator that hit the springs on the reverb tank?

Thanks! The actuator holds a short length of music wire and the motor holds a few strands of snare wire. I just recorded a video showing the actuator mods and some play.

[shortsleeves]

Another one from last night. This time the Organelle was a looper (Overloop), processor (reverb), and generator (gendy + rngs) – all in Orac 2.0. The small DOD mixers allow me to set different levels for Tetrax’s attack/release signal, use the individual oscillators’ outputs, and add a contact microphone to boot All in all, it’s quite a powerful setup.

[fluxmonkey]

a real loss for the DIY community when he passed… his enthusiasm and generosity were exemplary.

[papernoise]

Thanks! The actuator holds a short length of music wire and the motor holds a few strands of snare wire. I just recorded a video showing the actuator mods and some play.

Very cool sounds! Thanks a lot for sharing this and showing us how you made it!

In the meantime, I’ve posted a bit more about the oil can reverb in the Transducers / Exciter Speaker in case you want to hear some recordings of how it sounds.

[Lemmy]

Absolutely. Sorry to see that his website is now offline. I wonder if it is archived anywhere?
(I shouldn’t take this thread off-topic - I guess there are DIY threads where this could be picked up.)

[fluxmonkey]

still there, i think: http://musicfromouterspace.com/

[Lemmy]

Ah, great. Looks like the domain expired and they’ve just renewed it.

[yobink]

I’m going bananas over here

[1ntr]

[LLK]

I have super good memories of playing (and watching other people play) the SH101 in recording studios where it was an option, it made for crazy synth tracks (sadly I think I was a little all over place musically during that time and most of my tracks from back then with SH101 on it suck overall).

[1ntr]

Me too , I have memories of the late 80’s when we would go round to a friends house in school lunchbreak , smoke weed and just listen to the SH101 noise generator.

[SYS2064]

@_robertoferraris

[DoS]

There’s such a thing as too many Dreadbox devices (and too many sequencers, for that matter), right? They seem to be taking most of the rack space so far, at least - good thing the Disting Mk IV is so slim.

[n-So]

this beautiful object arrived today. and my god does it sound incredible. unbelievably beautiful string plucky sounds. and the bass is just enormous.

[LLK]

Oh ok so it’s SH day officially now?

[DoS]

Well, if it’s officially SH-day today, then this is my oldest synth, both in age and in terms of how long it’s been around (alongside the Juno-60 and DX-7) - the Keystep does have nicer keys and a sequencer, though, both of which are handy:

[simondemeule]

What surprises me is how small the shared system seems to be next to it.