'Psychoactive' OMNICHORD SYNTHESIZER for SPACE-GUN-BUNNY (October 2013)

Published on Oct 14, 2013 squidfanny·151 videos

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"Epic Circuit Bent Synthesizer, built from a vintage Omnichord & a Monotron Delay.

This machine contains an array of new circuitry designed to twist, warp, disrupt & distort the sounds of the Monotron & the Omnichord.

There's way too much stuff to show in this vid, so I'll probably make another vid to explore the more mellow side of this machine..
In the meantime, this vid is basically an orgy or weird & experimental electronic glitch & filtered noise.

This machine belongs to my friend in America - Mister 'Space-Gun-Bunny'

http://www.youtube.com/user/SpaceGunB...

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Loads of servicing on the actual Omnichord - lots of new little caps to remove most of the annoying clicks from the triggers. New amp circuits and individual outputs for the separate channels (drums, chord/bass, harp). A little built-in mixer to send the separate channels to the monotribe.

'Monotribe Delay' provides nice interesting VCF & Delay (based on a PT2399 design). I've bolted it next to the Harp-Plate, so that it can be played easily. It can also be modulated by the Omnichord, courtesy of my little DIY step-sequencer.
I particularly like the twisted up delay sounds that can be had from this design - it's a very unique sound.

Regards to the Omnichord mods -

+There's touch-points, for playing lovely squarewaves from inside the machine.
+There are knobs for tweaking the Analog Drums.
+There's switches above the rhythms buttons, so that the rhythms can be combined with each other for making interesting new rhythm weidness.
+A patch-bay allows brand new rhythms to be created.
+Separate volume knob for the BASS tone.
+Glitch Mods, to amaze.

The Monotribe required a little modding too - had to add a 'resonance' knob for the VCF, and also came up with an interesting mod to generate some fascinating distortion (see later vid).

This was a very experimental project, tried lot's of interesting new circuits with this machine. Also had a few problems along the way - I put alot of effort into building a new 'clock' circuit for the machine, so that I could Sync it to my monotribe. Unfortunately it still has a few bugs, so I'm cheating a little, and using the Trigger Pulse from the Omnichord's hit-hat as a Clock signal to sync the Monotribe :)

Anyway, this is the crazy vid.... I'll post a mellow vid as a response soon."