#919

I’ve had the Benge 1972 paperface track on repeat from ‘Thirteen Systems’ album. It gets better with every listen. I need to start using panning more creatively. I’d love to be able to patch up sparse things which develop like this. :ok_hand:

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Well, here’s the front panel without anything wired up. This is all Elby 4u. The graphics are a waterslide decal – I tried to use Filmless but the adhesion was really bad. And the placement is really tight, I got ambitious and now I have to negotiate around myself. But I’m pretty hopeful, as I got it all on there.
I might end up sawing off the upper and lower lips of the Hammond boat if I can’t find a way to deal with potentiometer orientation.
All the boards are done (didn’t share pics because it’s the boring part, though the process I find most enjoyable) so now it’s wiring and testing time.
I’ve been taking pretty extensive notes about the process that I might share on a blog or something; I had to fill in a lot of gaps myself for how to do this and I think it would be nice to have that information consolidated somewhere, even if it’s unique to my situation. Just thought I’d share my progress as some of you expressed interest a while back.

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#921

Cool! That seems like such a nice compact set. I’d love to read your notes on the process if you ever can find the time to write them up.
Are the PCB brackets the one from Craig Lee?

#922

Here’s a couple of improvs I put up on YouTube

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#923

In case you haven’t thought of this already: you could replace some of the pots with 9mm ones. Attaching a small piece of stripboard to the pins of PCB-mount pots makes them as readily wireable as the 16mm pots. I’ve resorted to this a few times for more compact panel layouts like yours.

That’s going to be a very nice little panel!

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#924

I haven’t properly tried it, but it always seemed to me like DuPont connectors would work well for this:

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#925

I don’t know is this related anyhow
with real Serge but:
do you have a chance to compare Random Source VCFQ smt vs VCF through hole with Styro caps? If yes, how can you descibe it in terms of sound?

#926

this is a great technique though i would reccomend sliding off the plastic sleeve and putting very gentle solder to the metal sleeve underneath and putting the plastic back up to ensure the connection holds… too many times i’ve had to open up a diy build thinking i’ve cooked ic’s and theyve just come loose -_-

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#927

does a legend for paper face hieroglyph style exist? love the look and i really want to see what the thought process was for the symbols

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Here you go - the Gold Book is worth a google too

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#929

wow thanks for this. despite having read a bunch of the old serge docs I either forgot about this or skimmed over it, but either way always was perplexed by the shapes on the old paper serge panels.

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#930

Thanks! I’m hoping I can get a lot out of it, I spent a long time planning it out. The brackets are indeed CLee from Modular Addict, they fit perfectly in the 3" deep boat.

I held back on responding to this because I really have no idea. I’m imagining something like @mzero’s CV/gate controller (super bummed I failed on attending his generous workshop), maybe it can be driven by midi so I can use Norns with it. But I’m also really curious about designing a 4-channel CV recorder/looper/quantizer, something where I can hold a button and twist a knob to record a gesture, then either trig or loop that gesture. It would have optional quantization of both pitch and clock. It would also have memory so I could recall things. The circuitry would be very similar to mzero’s, with an additional button and knob for each channel. And will take a lot of dev time. But I think I might give it a shot if I can muster it.

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#931

Happy to help anyone through building that CV/gate thing anytime. Just hit me up and I’ll meet you on discord. I’ll be running a workshop – looks like Jan. now – with New York Modular Society - and there will be a few parts kits available… But you can get the BOM from the site and order everything from Adafruit.

As for 4 CV input… I haven’t designed that circuit - but either MCU board in my project should be able to handle it… happy again to help here.

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#932

I was also looking at @mzero’s C.V./Trig Thing which is really interesting.

However, I was wandering if anybody has incorporated the Bela Platform into the Serge world. A bananified PEPPER maybe? @mzero or @TheTechnobear may comment on this? This would also bring maxmsp GEN into Serge for some 1 sample feedback delay networks…

I’ve found this comment by giuliomoro on the bella forum:

that’s an interesting idea, however I think you’ll find two main obstacles:

finding PCB mount banana jack sockets that fit the same layout as the jacks the PCB is designed for can be tricky. I had a quick look on RS and could not find any!

banana jacks - as far as I understand - don’t allow normalled connection. Now, on Pepper the pots are normalled through the CV in jack to a voltage reference that allows the pot to work on its own when there is no signal plugged in, and to work as an attenuator when a signal is connected. By removing that normalled connection (as you’d have to do for banana jacks), you will end up having the pots not working when no CV input is plugged in.
If you could find a switched banana jack of the right PCB footprint (and assuming you enlarge the hole on the faceplate), then you could possibly give it a try. If it was me, I would just get a bunch of 3.5mmjack-to-banana cables.

Beyond these obstacles, it looks a nice idea and wondering if somebody has gone this route

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#933

for Homebuilt users, here’s one last bunch of complex/chaotic bits and pieces that I dug from my HD - this is all pretty basic stuff I guess, just a whole lot of cross-modulation basically (I think there might be some overlap with the first one, sorry about that):

also uploaded a tossed-off go at multitracking on that page that I did earlier this year just to see how the different timbres might blend together: it’s just an uninspired test, but I’m convinced that someone with actual compositional ideas (= not me) could easily make some decent stuff with nothing but the Homebuilt, especially with multitracking and some basic effects (not to mention the preamp input!)… I really don’t get why it’s viewed as some kind of a supplementary unit (or one that necessarily needs supplementing), on the contrary I find it’s a pretty self-contained and well thought-out selection of function blocks. so I guess my two cents, if someone’s hesitating between the various 73-75.com panels, I’d emphatically recommend to start here and then expand if/when necessary…

would love to hear what other people are getting out of it, please post links if you have anything online!

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#934

Just wanted to say – I frequently listen to the samples you posted, it’s genuinely beautiful sonically and musically, and I appreciate you sharing.

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#935

thanks, I was wondering who’s listening to them, haha… no but it’s nice to hear - I really only uploaded them because there’s so very few examples online of this unit on its own, and I remember being super frustrated before getting it by how hard it was to find any interesting samples. thanks for the kind words!

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#936

I’m definitely listening! reverb into comparator has quickly become one of my favorite sounds ever and I wouldn’t have ever tried that on my own. So thanks for helping me think outside the box!

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#937

anyone have a recommendation for a stand for r*s super slim boats? not planning on racking until i get another panel…

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#938

Have you tried it on your Loci with the top stand removed? I seem to recall my BugBrand fitting it perfectly but I’m not sure how that compares to an R*S slim boat

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