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I made this quite a few years ago - my first DIY synthesizer, from a Ray Wilson design.
Just took it down off the shelf yesterday for the first time in a long time and spent some time exploring it. I realise now how little I understood about its workings when I made it.
It’s a great noise machine - I really like the (limited) level of complexity available in it… quite simple but bold modulation options which give slightly unpredictable results

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#4404

Looks great! Any samples of it in action?

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#4405

No nothing recent, I will share something at some point.

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#4407

How do you like the Onde Mag? I was bummed I missed out on this year’s batch.

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I literally just got mine. I lucked out and got it on Reverb. So far, I think it’s great. Some tuning issues, but that could just be shoddy batteries, or part of it’s charm. Mostly it’s when you play a high note and then a low note, as the cassette player has to adjust speeds quickly. It certainly has a nice quality to it’s sound!

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#4409

Nice build. It’s got an EMS vibe.

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#4410

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breakbeats 4 breakfast

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This is a crazy powerful mini combo. 3.5mm cable between for MIDI and additional CV from oplab module. Route into iPad for fx and recording and it all fits in a tiny bag.

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Working on a two-night live set. I love and hate this moment of chaos where I have tons of random bits and pieces that await to fall into place.

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#4415

Out of curiosity what role is the Tascam playing? Mixing only? Or also playing back tape at all?

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Also playback. I prepared three 15-minute sound back drops of four tracks. Will play them through EQ, pitch control and Polymoon.

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Still learning my way around this little setup, establishing what I want to do with it and working out what modules should accompany the core pair of Nebulae and Chronoblob.

The key joy of this lot is that I can power it all by battery.

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#4418

Could you tell me what this app is? Feel like I keep seeing it on iPad screens and been curious. I’ve only used a iPad w/Auria for recording purposes and would like to broaden my horizons. Thanks!

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It’s called 20 chars of “AUM”

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#4420

it’s a mixer, a little like ableton session view (audio and midi together)
'samplers within samplers
AUM - Audio Mixer by Kymatica AB

been practicing midi automation plug-ins controlling synth and other plug-in parameters, and just recording the stereo mix (manual fade out at the end)
:slightly_smiling_face:

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#4421

Thank you for the info and video link! I will definitely be experimenting with this in the future.

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#4422

It’s a Warm Audio WA-47 tube mic - essentially a modern clone of the Neumann U47 with quality parts and a reasonable price. I’m not a huge mic aficionado, but I’ve tried a couple and this one has been the most fun and sweet sounding yet.

https://warmaudio.com/wa47/

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#4423

So many characters of Ray!