I write seldom about c++ techniques. First of all because I find these kind of posts rather dry, then there’s plenty of people much more skilled than me in that area and finally, it’s always bound to endless discussions about the ‘proper’ way of doing things. However, in this case, I’ll do a small exception. Taking…
In the previous episode, we’ve seen how we could receive informations about the frequency of the monotron duo via its pls1 pad. This is very useful since we drive the oscillator’s pitch using a CV (through the dac, see here) and we will need to calibrate the voltage we send to the monotron in order…
This is Pt.3 of my serie about modding a Monotron Duo to add Midi and other features. PLS1 & Interrupts As we’ve seen in our previous episode, the monotron duo has a few pad points revealing the different stages of the vco core. We saw that one of them -PLS1- is running at twice the…
This is Pt.2 of my serie about modding a Monotron Duo to add Midi and other features. Every Monotron offers slightly different pad points on the pcb to allow us to to fiddle with. The duo is no exception and is actually fairly comprehensive: It seems one of the focus here is to give access…
This is Pt.1 of my serie about modding a Monotron Duo to add Midi and other features. Pitch access Controlling the monotron duo’s pitch is a little more tricky than the regular monotron. For one, it doesn’t have a pad on it’s pcb for pitch control. Then, the monotron duo has a small Texas Instrument…
I’m going to start working on a new version of the Nostromotron. Although I still really love the original one, I feel like I’ve learned a few things since then and I’d like to apply them to a new version of the mod. So be prepared for a few posts about doing this new version…
I’ve noticed my nostromotron was slightly off due to rounding error in the code. I’ve also taken the opportunity to check the analog oscillator scaling over the note range. The end result sounds way less toyish and it feels smoother now. You can grab the last version of the code over at github.
I had Ian’s MFB-522 for an afternoon. It’s a fantastic little drum machine so I decide to make a sample pack with it. It won’t replace the fun to tweak the real thing but might come handy. Download here: MFB-522
The ODroid U3 surely rocks the house. With 3 usb port it can fit any combination of external control you would like [Launchpad, nanoKontrol, Audio out, …] , a processing power that blows the Rpi to dust, it shines it the best standalone cpu platform I’ve come across so far. Installation-wise, I installed arch-linux and compiled my synthesis…
I’ve decided to put on github the code for ‘older’ projects that might benefit to other people. Mainly LittleGPTracker & the nostromotron project. You can find both on github. Enjoy.