Building the horstronic. Buffmult (video)

Here I build, calibrate, and, ah, MIScalibrate (deliberately!) the horstonic. Buffmult, a Eurorack buffered multiple. Do I manage to find a solution to the Mother-32 keyboard control voltage problem? NARRATOR: Yes. ME: Quiet, you.

Building a VCO

For my second DIY Eurorack module I picked the Befaco Even VCO. There are a number of DIY VCOs on the market but this one kept rising to the top of my list. Available in full kit, price is decent, good reviews. It was considerably more complex and dense, of course, than the ADSR I […]

Building a looping ADSR

I built a Eurorack module yesterday: the AI Synthesis Looping ADSR. It’s good to have two envelope generators; you can do things like use one to control the amplitude of your sound with the VCA while the other independently modulates the filter cutoff, for example. But also, this envelope generator can do more than the […]

Moog Mother-32: Nasty

I’m trying out using a public Google Drive folder as a dumping ground for patches. Picture and audio sample. First one. I started off with the “Sequencer Bass” patch from the manual and, uh, went a little nuts adding patch cords.

Moog Mother-32 part 3: On the record

It took some doing, but I’m now recording. I was trying to get audio production software working on my Linux Mint 19 desktop computer and was having some trouble, so decided I’d give Ubuntu Studio a shot. That’s a version of Ubuntu that’s set up for creative (audio, video, graphic) work. But I like Mint […]

Moog Mother-32 part 2: Selection criteria

So why the Mother-32? There are lots of synthesizers on the market, and while there have been some great things happening in FM synthesis, digital synthesis, and other variants of synthesizer technology, my first love and best is what Moog and ARP and so on were doing in my youth: analog subtractive synthesizers. Analog synthesizers […]

Moog Mother-32 part 1: Scratch the itch

I never know where these whims come from, but lately the electronic music whim has been making a return visit. It’s an itch that’s easily and cheaply scratched to a degree, if you undertake the learning curve of open-source softsynth apps. I have amsynth, Bristol, and Rack recently installed on my Linux box, and they’re fun […]