Bugbrand Synthvoice Modular System w/ Little Baggy of Something or Other

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What's in the little baggy?

"BugBrand modular system, built by Tom last year. It is a complete Synthvoice + Dual Digital Shift Register + Dual Divide + PT Delay + Low Pass Gate. It works switfly. It comes with some funky orange cheeks, but also with the classic straight BugBrand cheeks."

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Bugbrand Chirper 2020 Red

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Great condition, comes with original box and adaptor! Rare and out of production. Comes housed in 5FW case.

Chirper is a semi-modular arrangement of two oscillators and one filter – a simple setup which belies the rich sonic surprises contained within. It is a direct continuation of , which itself was something of a reaction to my long-evolving works – after 10+ years I was feeling the call for new pastures and, while I enjoyed their deep electronic ecosystems, the lo-fi Weevil circuitry was never suitable for voltage-controlled work. The solution was to tweak ideas I’d been using in the , slightly simplifying some circuits to bring about an instrument with enticing layout and a fine balance of limitation vs. possibility.

Have a look at the Block Diagram above to see how Chirper is put together:
– the two Voltage-Controlled Oscillators are identical, with wide range (approx 0.15Hz to 100kHz) and sweepable from Triangle to Square.
– each oscillator has a Sync input along with Internal (from the other oscillator) and External (1V/Oct) Modulation controls. Things go nutty when the oscillators cross-modulate each other!
– the Voltage-Controlled Filter, with resonance up to self-oscillation and sweepable from Low-pass to High-pass, is fed audio from the 1st Oscillator (via Drive control) and is modulated by the 2nd Oscillator and/or an External (1V/Oct) source.

Of course, there is no internal VCA, so do be prepared for drones! [complimentary modules are in the pipeline] Note also that the 1V/Oct responses of the Oscillators and Filter are only quite accurate – fine for good tracking over a few octaves – and does not feature temperature compensation. Chirper was designed more as a surprise box than a well-pitched synth, but I saw it as a bonus to add simple 1V/Oct response.

4mm banana sockets are used for all I/O other than the Main Output which is 1/4″ Mono Impedance Balanced. The Instruction Sheet has details of interfacing with banana cables."

BugBrand 2Frame

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"Frame 1 (Synth Voice):

- 3 x Compact VCO
- 1 x Dual Filter
- 1 x Dual Envelope
- 1 x Dual Amplifier
- 1 x Dual Mixing

Frame 2 (Sequencing/Effects):

- 1 x Joystick/Touch
- 1 x Dual Preamp
- 1 x Penrose Quantizer
- 1 x Dual Digital Shift Register
- 1 x Dual Divide
- 1 x LPG
- 1 x PT Delay"

AVP Ritmobox - Experiemental Techniques compared with dry sound.

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"Here the AVP Ritmobox is shown dry with little to no processing, processed by Bugbrand EQ/Filters and with a no-input mixing feedback technique."

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Bugbrand Board Chirper

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You can find a couple of demos of the Board Chirper in previous posts here.

New BugBrand Modules In the Works

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"I'll be easing back into the modular - built stock is low at present - but soon up will be two new modules, both at 2FW:

2130 VCO - using the powerful new SSI2130 chip, this more macro oscillator offers Through-Zero Linear FM and voltage-controlled wave-morph: Triangle->Saw->Pulse

Phaser - it took quite a few prototype iterations, but finally there's a thick & rich sounding 12-stage phaser!"

Standalone CrossOver Filter in the middle.

Bugbrand Red Row

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"This is the perfect rig for destroying drums."

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BugBrand Synthvoice complete modular synthesizer

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The Synthvoice features:
1 Dual Envelope
1 Compact VCO
2 Quadrature VCOs
1 Dual Filter
1 Dual VCA Amplifier
1 Dual Mixing

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Bugbrand 2-Row System

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"Includes the following modules:
-Dual Envelope
-Compact VCO x3
-Dual Filter x2
-Dual Amplifier
-LPG
-Quadrature VCO
-Dual Divide x2
-DDSR
-Logic
-Diode Director
-Dual Mixing"

Make Noise Strega + BugBrand Board Chirper

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"Make Noise Strega and BugBrand Board Chirper cross modulating each others touch points."

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Bugbrand Synth Voice + Bananas & Jumbler

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"Includes power supply, a load of banana cables, two shorting bars, and a Low-Gain UTL-1 format jumbler (3.5mm to banana)."

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Bugbrand 11FW Frame Instrument

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Volca FM / Bugbrand PTDelay

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Batchas - Whip it!

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Synth line: Scrotum Lab Orgone Accumulator MK2
Synth notes with delay: Scrotum Lab Tresses
Drums: BugBrand DRM1

Teenage engineering PO Modular 400

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"Item is great condition and comes with the TE minijack cable pack and a Power supply to power it from mains. The PSU is essential as the battery PSU the POM400 comes with is terrible, it will only run with fresh batteries and they will run out very quickly so I would say it is only suitable for mains powered via the included mains to DC PSU"

Bugbrand modular in the background not included...

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LEPLOOP Multi Cassa and Bugrand PT Delay NOISEBUG Demo

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"Multi Cassa Drum Pattern into BugBrand PT delay cause a more complex rhythm."

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BugBrand Binary Block Voltage (BBV) - rough overview

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"The BBV is a logic controlled preset/sequencer.



Here I show a little how you might approach controlling it..
The DDSR would also be good - indeed you could also use lfos (sync'd or not) or any other voltage source..
A quick & rough video - hence why you can't see the LEDs of the module very well for most of it..!"

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"The Binary Block Voltage (BBV) is a logic controlled 8 stage preset selector/sequencer.

One of the eight voltage stages is selected based on the settings of the 3 logic control inputs, each of which can be set Logic Lo/0 (Mid), Hi/1 (Up), or controlled by an external signal (Down). As each logic input can be separately controlled, a variety of stage sequence variations can be created and moved between. Traditionally you might use various clock divisions to step through stages in a repeating fashion, different from sequential approaches, but comparators on each input (threshold c.+1V) mean any modular signal can be used as a control.

The three digits under each stage correspond to the 3-bit logic input or can be thought of as controlling (see extra image above):
A – toggles each pair of stages, with logic Lo/0 selecting left and logic Hi/1 selecting right
B – selects the top (logic Lo/0) or bottom (logic Hi/1) block of 4 stages
C – selects the left (logic Lo/0) or right (logic Hi/1) block of 4 stages

The output voltage can be switched for low (0 to +2V) or high ranges (0 to +10V)."

BugBrand 2Frame Modular

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Frame 1 (Synth Voice):

- 3 x Compact VCO
- 1 x Dual Filter
- 1 x Dual Envelope
- 1 x Dual Amplifier
- 1 x Dual Mixing

Frame 2 (Sequencing/Effects):

- 1 x Joystick/Touch
- 1 x Dual Preamp
- 1 x Penrose Quantizer
- 1 x Dual Digital Shift Register
- 1 x Dual Divide
- 1 x LPG
- 1 x PT Delay

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06 01 21 Ace Tone - Rhythm Ace FR-6

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"I finished to repair, modify and clean the FR-6.
Next step will be to replace the grey panel I took as prototype."

06 01 21 Rhythm Ace FR-6 with BugBrand Modular [02]
batchas

"First test after repairing and modifying the FR-6.
Next step will be to clean it and mount the knobs.
In a further stage I'll replace the grey prototype panel."

Part 1 here

06 01 21 Ace Tone FR-6 and BugBrand modular [01]

batchas

"First time patching the FR-6 since I repaired it and modified it.
Since I recorded this video I cleaned it ans added knobs. Looks really great now!
And I'll paint the grey panel in black soon."