Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Bite-sized

Here's a little bluesy morsel of audible junk food.  I had fun playing for a bit the other night on the Hammond organ, guitar, drums, and synthesizer.



For those of you with more appetite, feel free to check out a recording from a trio that I recently played in with my friends Scott and Kim Ripplinger:


A bunch of other great recordings from church buddies who played in that same concert are here.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

AAAAHHHH MAKE IT STOP

I've finally designed and built a couple of modules for my synthesizer using the front panels and strip boards that I custom ordered a few months ago.  Aaaaand they sound....absolutely horrifying!  Better than I had hoped!  Here's a video of me attacking my laptop's microphone with my 40-year-old synthesizer with the new modules:


I suggest hiding your laptop in a family member's room with this video playing on repeat.

Eventually I'll get around to posting the schematics and firmware on github so that other weirdos can build this stuff if they like.  Currently I've built a dual voltage controlled low frequency oscillator (VCLFO) and a dual envelope generator.