Fonitronik Cascade 4hp Flexible Mixing & Attenuverting Toolkit on Sale

Follow-up to the video posted here. The Fonitronik Cascade 4hp Flexible Mixing & Attenuverting Toolkit is now available at Thonk.

Some details via the online manual here:

"Back in 2007 I sold DIY PCBs for an attenuverting mixer designed for eurorack. This project eventually turned into the 1st fonitronik product that came into the stores early in 2010. The module provided 4 channels and a final summing stage with a simple RC network to remove DC offset, when desired. Alas, with 12HP the module itself was rather large. Too large for a lot of people today. So I decided to redesign the module and I am now proud to be able to present the successor of the fonitronik mh01 as a DIY project via THONK, the CASCADE triple attenuverting mixer/processor in 4HP only. It does MIX, INVERT, ATTENUATE, ADD GAIN The module provides 3 channels of ‘attenu-gain-vertion’, each with it’s own bicolor LED. The input of each channel is normalled to a voltage source. There are two modes of mixing the three channels , which could be set by a jumper: CASCADE: output of channel #1 is mixed into channel #2 (as long as no cord is patched into output 1), output of channel #2 is mixed into channel #3 (as long as no cord is patched into output 2).
PARALLEL: both the outputs of channel #1 & #2 are mixed into channel #3 (as long as no cords are patched into the outputs).

Again, inputs are normalled to an internal voltage source. As soon as you patch the inputs they are removed from that source. The outputs are normalled to the internal mixing (depending on mode jumper), however, as soon as you patch the outputs they are removed from the internal mixing. This makes this module very versatile. Just guess: when using channel one for attenuverting a signal (Fig. a) you could still use channels 2 & 3 to attenuvert and offset another signal"

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Fonitronik Cascade Module.

Fonitronik Cascade Module. from thonk on Vimeo.

"Available from Thonk in November 2014.

An extremely compact and flexible CV and audio processor and mixer.

This video quickly shows just a few options available."

Turn an old TV into an Oscillograph For Oscillographics!

Published on Jan 17, 2018 LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

"OSCILLOGRAPHICS!

A full length video of the end pattern making is on my patreon now:-
https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomp...

If you choose to do this! be smart and careful, im in no way responsible for you being a dumbass and frieing your insides, ive made it pretty obvious its LETHAL :)

A list of modules used!

both channels went into the ALM O/A/X2 useful, because you could offset and invert the signals. for both channels!

for one channel (X AXIS) i used :-
Instruo troica (a great bank of 3 oscillators, i just fm’d them together to make different sorts of odd)
ALM Pamelas new workout for some more stuff ontop of those 3 oscillators talking to each other

for the other channel (Y AXIS) i used :-
Befaco VCO.. good to use the large range of octaves available on the octave switch
Happy Nerding FMAID this was really cool to make the waveform make more patterns!

Also at the end the weird 3d shape was a MOFFENZEEF MODULAR MUSKRAT, going into both channels!
the 3d look was me just adjusting the parameters on the muskrat!


Andrew duff suggested to look at the FONITRONIK CASCADE at thonk:-

https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/cascade/

along with a complex oscillator like the make noise DPO.

His links are here :-

http://www.andrew-duff.co.uk/

INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERT YOUR VECTREX :-

http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~ad207/adwe... [pdf]

BRIGHTON MODULAR MEET INFO!

http://brightonmodularmeet.co.uk/"

Nonlinear circuits VCO demo Part 1

Published on May 28, 2017 Randy Piscione

"Demo of a Nonlinearcircuits VCO. From the nlc website, 'The VCO is a standard Mikulic/Electronotes core with phase sync and pan-pulse circuitry from the Aries AR-338.' This is from 2012.

I created a custom (and not particularly attractive) panel to house two of these behind it. Going to do another video to demo the sync and FM but probably something more performance-oriented.

Info here:

http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/data/VCOgui...

http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/data/VCO%20...

http://nonlinearcircuits.blogspot.ca/..."

Update:

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Nonlinear circuits VCO demo Part 2

Published on May 29, 2017 Randy Piscione

"Here is the second part of the Nonlinearcircuits VCO demo. This one is just a performance, no talking (yes!). Just me showing off. I am at various times manually tweaking the tuning on the VCO to affect the Hard sync, and the frequency and modulation depth on the various CV inputs. It’s all live, so if you can manage to listen to all of it, there are some interesting sounds coming out of this thing. See the details below for what I’m using. This is a very cool and very capable VCO.

Here are the details:

The bass sequence and drums are from a Mutable Instruments Anushri. Everything else is the nlc VCO, just one VCO, one side, no filter. Sync (hard) is coming from the other side of the nlc VCO. Output is the PanPulse. PWM is handled by a Frequency Central Wave Runner, Sync Mod is a PM Foundations 3080 VCO, PanPWM is a TipTop Z3000, DC FM is modulated by an nlc ADSR 312, which is causing the Sync to move a bit when I play the keyboard. AC FM is modulated by an X-4046 VCO through a Fonitronik Cascade. An MFOS VCA is using CV from another nlc ADSR 312 to handle dynamics, and that is going to a Ladik M-171 Mixer."

Part 1 here.

Happy New Year From MATRIXSYNTH! - A Look Back at 2014

Happy New Year everyone!

I want to start by thanking everyone that comes to MATRIXSYNTH and helps make it what it is - the readers, the supporters, and of course all the sponsors on the right.

THANK YOU and have a GREAT 2015!!!

This site is a labor of love and a ton of work. This site is ultimately meant to be an testament to everything synth in the making. We have over nine years of daily synth history captured here, 119,983 published posts. I can't wait to see what the future brings us in 2015!

That said, here are a few interesting bits from 2014 in the longest post of the year. ;)

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Fonitronik / Thonk - Cascading Mixer

Published on Dec 4, 2014 DivKidMusic

"Surely one of the best ways to utilise 4HP? I'm starting to think so with how useful this is. 5dB of gain, voltage boosting, inverting, attenuating, mixing, offsets or any combination of those!

Check out the module here -
http://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/cascade/"

Patch Serendipity Submission #1

YouTube via neandrewthal —

"May 27, 2010 — A self playing patch for the Muff Wiggler Patch Serendipity Repository using three 2U panels which were randomly computer selected. The modules involved are: Dual Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer, Dual MFOS sample and hold, Fonitronik PS3100 resonators/CGS cascade mixer.

Join the fun here: http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/view..."