1st cover tune video

Published on Nov 9, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius

"Sorry! I forgot to mention in the video, what all of the instruments are! Duh. Lol.
Bass drum and Snare drum are samples of the Kawai XD5 drum synth from many years ago.
The hihat is my Liquid HiHat Version 1.4. (And the (cough cough) 'cymbals' as well.)

The main bassline that comes in a little bit later is a Music From Outer Space 1V/oct. Sinewave going through the Serge Wave Multiplier.
The higher pitched bassline that starts right away is another MFOS 1V/oct Sinewave going through the CGS Wave Multiplier.

No vocals (yet). I don't know if I'll complete the cover as I'm stuck now at figuring out what notes Geezer Butler was playing after the 2nd verse was sung by Ozzy. (ooopsies. Am I giving away who I've tried covering finally ... for the 1st time in the 34 years that I've wanted to since first hearing it? Lol.)

Anyhoo ... as it is for the moment, I hope you enjoy. :)"

The Deathlehem Machine portable edition

Published on Oct 30, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius

"This is a very short video to give you a rough idea of what my latest noise machine can do! :D This one's a little different though! Not only is he PORTABLE and will be running on a pair of 9V batteries, but he also has STEREO speakers built into him and will have 2 stereo outputs as well! :D
This is the prototype of my idea that I originally had for my 4th Deathlehem Machine that I built in the mid 90's. This guy though blows that one away, as this one is operating on 4 x Voltage Controlled Low Frequency Oscillators! :D (2 of them USED to be 1V/oct. VCOs in my modular. The other 2 x VCLFOs were taken from the same place.)
The 2 x former VCOs can play then entire audio range as well as drop down to almost pausing speed VCLFOs with the triangle waveform. They can also modulate the other VCLFOs with squarewaves
The 2 x VCLFOs can operate from almost pausing speed up the midrange of audio with either triangle or squarewaves.

Operationally:
Each of the 4 x VCLFOs have the following controls:
- Coarse tuning
- Fine tuning
- Control Voltage #1 amount
- Control Voltage #2 amount
- Triangle or Squarewave
- a speed LED
- a volume control

Each of the 4 x VCLFO's can modulate 2 others. The connections are:

VCLFO #1 is hardwired to modulate VCLFO #2 and VCLFO #3
VCLFO #2 is hardwired to modulate VCLFO #3 and VCLFO #4
VCLFO #3 is hardwired to modulate VCLFO #4 and VCLFO #1
VCLFO #4 is hardwired to modulate VCLFO #1 and VCLFO #2

There be some huge amounts of modulation potential in this guy as well as audio screaming that'll scare not one but BOTH of your grandmas! :D Lol.

I'm seriously debating putting this prototype up for sale on e-Bay once he's completed. I only have a couple of small things to do now to finish it up in a nice carry-around portable package.

Lemme know what you think he would be worth to anyone out there he gets a kick out of making sounds that you wont find everyday in your nearest CD store! :D

Thanks for any input! :)

Bye buy boys and girl! ;)
Unkle Ryk"

Weird Poly wanna cracker rhythms

Published on Oct 1, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius

"Alright boys and girl. :) This extremely odd audio video, were inspired by Master Modular Builder Dmitri over on Faceboob, posting a video of a bassdrum with him manipulating to a completely bizarre patch on his DIY'd Serge modular. So I went off to make something just as if not oddER, myself and here it be. :)
The first 8 minutes I'm saying what modules I'm using and the next 8 minutes is mostly bizarre knob twisting and grooving to something out of some severe acid laced PCP trip or something. :D
I hope you believe it to be as odd and twisted as I do. :D"

Liquid Hihat V2 sneak peak at 1:42.

Updated CGS Programmer Sequencer with Moog 960 functions

Published on Sep 23, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius
"And here we are boys and girl! Ken corrected his initial correction of my err'd modification of the CGS (Serge inspired) Programmer Sequencer and it now works with the Moog 960 Sequencer functions, PERFECTLY! :D
Watch the vid! Enjoy! :D"

CGS Programmer Sequencer mdification

Published on Sep 22, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius
"In this modification to the CGS (inspired from Serge's) Programmer Sequencer, I came up with the idea of giving this module the same function as the PLAY / SKIP / HALT functionality that the Moog 960 Sequencer has. There was a pair of errors in my mod. design though. Ken Stone (CGS) very thankfully, corrected the most important error. Otherwise, the modification would not have worked at all. Thank you greatly Ken! :D

The Programmer Sequencer was already extremely powerful in everything that it can do. Now, mine at the very least, is all the MORE powerful! :D

I hope you enjoy the vid. :)"

CGS (Serge) 8 Step Programmer Sequencer Demo.AVI

YouTube Published on Aug 23, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius

"And here we are boys and girl! :D Finally 8 months after buying the 9 PCBs, did I start putting this guy together, this past Monday. The 8 daughterboards went together in just over 3 hours, building them in the 'assembly line' format. The wiring to the mother board and the front panel combined though, took 2 more days along with a bit of bug solving yesterday and finishing it, this morning. She's working beauty! :D
If you don't have one and you want a very powerful configurable sequencer / programmer, get to ordering from Ken! :D It can be as short as 1 step, or as many steps as you like! :D Forwards, backwards, jumping to and fro between all of the steps. Manually triggerable as well as the ability to use each step to trigger external things. And 4 channels of Control Voltages! 1 pot for each step, for each channel. The amount of things that can be done with this thing, are scary! :o :D

Hope you enjoy! :D"

Quick note: Moving forward I will be using the Richarius Molindarius label for these rather than the old dolphinicus label.

Liquid HiHat V1 4 demo 2

YouTube Published on Aug 15, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius

Hi boys and girl! It's Unkle Ryk. Lol.
During a couple of hours of listening to the 2 voices in my Liquid HiHat whilst building another module, I kept fiddling with things through the patch during the build. About 15 minutes or so before I shot the video, I realized there were no CVs controlling the pitches of the voices! DUH! Lol. Within minutes of hooking up extra cables to do that, the 'beat' that I had already thought bizarre but liked, got even better and I thought - worth shooting a video of as another demo of the LHH V1.4. So here y'are kids! :D

Hope you enjoy. :) Full sorta, explanation of the patch, in the video. :)"

Hex Inverter Liquid HiHat: http://shop.hexinverter.net/

The Deathlehem Machine Explanation

YouTube Published on Aug 14, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius
Don't miss 4:12 (potentially nsfw language). Start at 3:45 if you do forward to it though.

"Whoops. This video became ummm ... 21 minutes longer than I THOT it would! Lol. 26m50 of myself explaining the modules in my modular synth - The Deathlehem Machine - to the chap that had requested it a few days ago.
Yeah there're some side turns here and there; out for a beer and some window shopping and all that what not but ... I hope it'll give a brief miniature basic sorta idea, of every module in my modular, at the mo'. :)

Now - what year is it now? I know this thing is going to take for ruddy ever, to upload. :o Lol"

Liquid HiHat Version 1.40.AVI

YouTube Published on Aug 13, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius

"Finally after almost 2 years, I've built one of Hexinverter's Liquid HiHat PCBs that he'd sent me. This time though, with modifications. If you liked the Liquid HiHat before, you might like this one more. :D
Mods / fixes include:

- 2 x Offset pots replaced by 300k from +V to the summing opamp, to allow +/-5V modulation for each of the 4046 VCOs
- Hexinverter's suggested switch for each 4046 voice to switch capacitors values between 0.01uF and 0.1uF
- INDIVIDUAL OUTPUTS for each voice! Switchable for 1 pair of voices output or 1 voice from each output

These modifications and fixes allow the user to have EIGHT different sounds coming out of the Liquid HiHat depending on how the 2 x cap. switches and the 1 x output switch are set!

In this video, I start out using the 1 output, showing how the 2 voices together sound with full modulation coming into each of them as well as switching both of the timeing capacitor switches. Then, I flip to dual voice output, switching the cap values again as well as bringing the modulations back in.

All of this was done without changing the frequencies of ANY of the 6 clocks! All the more sonic potential lies in there. :)

1 voice was going through a 2 pole High Pass Filter
1 voice was going through a 2 pole Band Pass Filter

Please do pardon my patting-self-on-the-back but: no other hihat in the world, has the potential sonic territory of, the Liquid HiHat V1.4! :o :)

I'll be posting modifications at the very least, to the Schematics section of my webpage at:

http://www.damian.deathlehem.com/

and possibly to my Facebook account.

I hope you enjoy. :)

Pardon again, but, I'm almost speechless at the sonic potential of the Liquid HiHat even more so with these modifications, than any of it's previous versions. :O

Finally - each of the voices were going through their own Voltage Controlled Amplifiers with each of them having Attack / Decay envelope generators controlling their amplitudes. 1 was set to imitate a 'closed hihat' and the other was set to imitate an 'open hihat'."

My Mind At Rest

YouTube Published on Jul 26, 2012 by Richarius Molindarius

"Firstly - this video is of my noise machine playing a DRONE piece. Not neksays-sarah-lee, will everyone be into that. :O :)
Right then - this piece consists of 4 x CMOS CD4093 oscillators. 2 of them are being voltage controlled by each their own, SLOW Low Frequency Oscillators. One does a full cycle about every 30 seconds and the other a full cycle about every 3 minutes.
Though you wont hear the stereo in this video:
- 1 stable oscillator is panned hard left
- 1 stable oscillator is panned hard right
- the 2 Voltage Controlled Oscillator's outputs are both going into a single XOR Gate. The output from it, is going into the mono input of a TC Electronics stereo delay, set up for panning between the left and right at about 0.5hz or, once every 2 seconds ... roughly, with a LOT of feedback. The stereo outs are mixed with the hard panned oscillators and that is sent off to the amplifier.

This piece is 7 or 8 minutes long. If I can get my digital recorded hooked up, I'll record a much longer version of it for posting on my Richarius soundcloud site.

I hope you enjoy. :) I myself love it."

Bitch Cracker Cries For Help

YouTube Published on Jul 19, 2012 by dolphinicus

"Lunetta 11 - panel #5 is complete. 8 Personality Panhandler; 8 passive attenuators and 4 x triple input AC mixers.
This is a simple 'drone' type track with the Bitch Cracker (Nick Collins / Draal modified / myself modified, Pitch Tracker) kicking in later, modulating 2 of the Voltage Controlled Pulse Width Oscillators (that I mis-ID'd in the video, as 4093s. They're 4023's.) About 3 1/2 minutes long, due to low battery. I hope you enjoy.
Panel #6 if successful will be an MFOS 8+ channel stereo mixer that I'm beginning today."

Lunetta 11 Spock July 1712

YouTube Published on Jul 17, 2012 by dolphinicus

"This is the latest panel in my new Lunetta 11 noise machine. Spock includes:
- 3 x slower CD40106 oscillators used for driving Clock inputs on other things
- 2 x 4 BIT Shift Registers (CD4015)
- 1 x 18 Stage Shift Reigster (CD4006)
- 3 x SPDT electronics switches with external control input (CD4053)
- 1 x Nick Collins / Draal modified / Me modified, with 2 inputs Pitch Tracker (CD4046)

Finally, as you'll hear in this video - pitch changes from the Lunetta 11 start warbling all over the place! :D That is thanks especially to, Nick/Draal's Pitch Tracker. I'll definitatively be building at least 1 more of these!
Note: due to problems with some of the different manufacturers of the CD4046, this one - the Texas Instruments one that Draal and I both use, DOES WORK PROPERLY. :)

I hope you enjoy."

Lunetta11 Panel3 July0912

YouTube Published on Jul 9, 2012 by dolphinicus

"And here we be, diddling a few ears with Panel #3 in my new Lunetta 11 noise machine. This panel includes:
2 x Voltage Controlled Low Frequency Oscillators
2 x Voltage Controlled Pulse Width Oscillator
1 x triple input AC mixer
Set right back and enjoy the aural twistings that could frighten ANYone's grandmother! :D"

Luneta11 StanAndJack

YouTube Published on Jul 5, 2012 by dolphinicus

"In this short vid. I'm giving a small demonstration of a patch that I had made using my new noise machine Lunetta 11's 2 panels:
STAN (dedicated to Stanley Lunetta. The originator of Lunetta synths.) contains:
- 4 x CD4093 Schmitt Trigger NAND Gate oscillators
- 4 x CD4070 XOR Gates

JACK (dedicated to my dad. R.I.P. :( ) contains
- 2 x CD4024 7 BIT Clock Dividers, chained together as a 14 BIT Clock Divider
- 1 x CD4094 8 BIT Shift Register with XORable Clock and XORable Data inputs

Using various combinations of oscillators, XOR Gates, the Clock Dividers and the Shift Regster - quite a number of sounds are obtainabled. ;)

The next panel LESLIE (dedicated to Canadian actor Leslie Nielson (R.I.P.) and bassist / vocalist extrodinaire from Primus - Les Claypool) will more than likely contain:
- 2 x 3 input AC coupled audio mixers
- 4 x active AC attenuators (for changing volume levels)
- 3 x CD4023 Pulse Width Oscillators
- 3 x CD4053 SPDT switches, each with Voltage Control"

Lunetta 11 - Stan - Quad 4093 / XOR

YouTube Published on Jul 4, 2012 by dolphinicus

"This is the 1st module for my 11th noise machine that I've started building. a simple introduction, but it'll help give you a bit of an idea as to it's functionality."

TD Emulation example 1.AVI

YouTube Uploaded by dolphinicus on Mar 15, 2012

"Having gotten my 2nd Music From Outer Space VCO built with my semitone and octave rotary switches function for 1 volt / octave tuning, I thought I would make an example video showing how the switches work, in roughly emulating a small portion of a bass / melody line from a live Tangerine Dream tune somewhere in the later 70's.
I hope you enjoy."

1st Official $PLURJ Noise Piece - Feb 0312.AVI

YouTube Uploaded by dolphinicus on Feb 3, 2012

"This video is of just under 1/2 of the 1st Official $PLURJ! Noise Piece. Created with my $PLURJ! modular synthesizer that I've created / built, using 2 x Voltage Controlled Oscillators as audio sources and many, many other modules as modulators. It'd take forever to describe the patch. Outside of that - no effects were used. It's all pure $PLURJ! noising away. I hope you (noise / experimental enthusiasts), enjoy. :)"

DinglingDroneyBaloney.AVI

YouTube Uploaded by dolphinicus on Jan 13, 2012

"Well - just before dindin prep. I went to go back downstairs to shoot some pictures of my modular, now that I've put all 5 of the new laminated paper panels, from all of the modules transfers that I've done. (Still far from complete.) Especially for, the 4 x Serge / CGS Universal Slope Generators that are all working beautifully. BUT - having started work on my first 'drone' piece in a long long time I decided that I would shoot this short video, explaining what I have hooked up and how. Since I were short on time though, the entire thing is more than likely explained much too quickly for anybody but myself to understand so ... please enjoy the nice blinken lightzen, but neine touchen das buttonzez mit der fingers er gerpoken somefin! Anglich. Ain't it a wonderful langwitch? Lol."

The Judge - V1.02 alpha.AVI

YouTube Uploaded by dolphinicus on Dec 16, 2011

"This is the 2nd demonstration of my invention - The Judge. I've done some fine tuning of levels here and there (skipping descriptions) and things are working a lot better.
Also - I have the sequencer that is being used for the Level / comparison controls on each of the 16 steps, this time running my Liquid HiHat, to give a better audible idea, of which Steps are triggering and which are not.
I hope my explanation of the function in this video gets the idea across in an easier to understand way than my last version of it."

The Judge - V1.00 alpha.AVI

YouTube Uploaded by dolphinicus on Dec 14, 2011

"The Judge - invented in 2010 by Ryk John Miller Thekreator - allows the user of a step sequencer to set a control for each step that determines it's AMOUNT OF CHANCE of playing, from 0% (step will not play upon activation) all the way up to 100% (step WILL play on every activation). The amounts of chance on every step that it will play upon activation are determined by the amount set on that Step's control, compared to a random sample from a white noise source.
Much fine tuning still has to be done for setting the levels properly but finally - the hardware version of The Judge - which I have not been able to find any version of this done in a hardware or software music sequencer in history before this, is up and running in alpha mode.
If anyone can provide proof of this function having been done before by any hardware or software music sequencer, please let me know where I may witness this.
The areas in which this 'engine' may be used aren't endless but the number of the uses in music, is staggering.
There'll be much more to come as I continue to develop this invention further."