Creating snarling Techno Squelches and Leads with ILSE, Vitalic-Style

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"A fun and affordable Modular Synth to solder yourself: Ilse. Seen and heard here making Vitalic Style techno squelches and leads.
Sound design and video by @i.am.sunhillow (IG)"

ILSE DIY Synth bleeps in FSOL style

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"ILSE synth from The Center for Haptic Audio Interaction Research (CHAIR) bleeps in The Future Sound of London fashion. Sound design and video by @i.am.sunhillow (ig)"

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The Center for Haptic Audio Interaction Research Introduces ILSE

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"Ilse the Eurorack synth voice in one DIY module is making warm but harsh Berlin Techno / Surgeon style stabs.

Ilse is an elegantly minimal, yet fully functional synthesizer voice in a compact 10 HP Eurorack module. The only thing you need to let it meow is a CV source to trigger its 1V/Oct frequency input (or a MIDI to CV converter and a MIDI sequencer) . Because it has a low part count it is ideal for Eurorack beginners or entry-level DIY projects.

Ilse is named after a cat, living in the legendary “Villa” in Weimar, Germany. The “Villa” was a place where a community lived and came together. Many underground concerts and parties took place here before the house got sold, renovated, and the mayor moved in. We created the graphics on the aluminum face-plate in her memory. Ilse (the synth) makes great acid sounds, so it was only logical to illustrate a cat tripping. Turn the knobs to make her look around or roll her eyes.

Ilse is designed to be affordable, easy to build, yet flexible, and feature rich. It is a synthesizer voice for your Eurorack, but can even be driven without a rack using two 9V batteries (not included).

Ilse is fully open source (KiCad schematic and layout is available in a git repository) and inspired by Syntherjack’s single-chip synthesizer Totoro. Check out his website with nice explanations, e.g. on the filter (we use the same filter on Ilse). We extended the design for external voltage control on filter, oscillators and LFO. Unlike Totoro, Ilse is designed around a unique oscillator design, which integrates the exponential conversion directly into the oscillator core. This results in an efficient circuitry saving you build time, parts and costs.

PCB and face-plate are manufactured in the EU. Kitting was done by our friends from Befaco in Barcelona. Complete assembly manual can be found in our forum.

Technical specifications

Functions

Two saw tooth oscillators
Bridged-T low pass filter with resonance control
Triangle LFO with speed control, and routing to filter and/or oscillators
Simple mixer and detune for oscillators
Controls

LFO Speed, Filter Modulation, Osc Modulation
Filter Cutoff, Filter Resonance
Tuning, Osc2 Detune
Osc1/Osc2 (Filter in)
Output volume
Input/Output

1V/Oct CV for oscillators (0-5V)
Gate (0-5V)
Filter cutoff (0-5V)
External filter input
Volume controlled output
LFO Speed (linear, via solder pad on back, 0-8V)
Oscillator 2 detune (linear, via solder pad on back, 0-8V)
Current draw per Eurorack rail

+12 V: 22mA
-12 V: 18mA
+5 V: NC
Dimensions

50mm wide (10HP), 128.5mm high (3U), depth in rack: 23mm, overall thickness: 43mm"

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The Center for Haptic Audio Interaction Research Introduces Analog Waveguide Eurorack Module

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'The Center for Haptic Audio Interaction Research presents the Analog Waveguide, a Eurorack module for physical modelling synthesis."

"Analog Waveguide is versatile stereo reverberation effect that feeds the signals into a rotation matrix. The matrix can be set to any angle. Its signal path is fully analog, and the delay lines are implemented with bucket brigade delays. The design was described in a concept by Michael Gerzon from 1971, but was only implemented digitally in 2011 by Miller Puckette. Our interpretation re-implements and extends the original concept as an Eurorack module with an analog signal path. The resulting resonator is an analog waveguide for vivid physical modeling sound synthesis . The integrated display shows the two signals in a Cartesian coordinate system. The resulting image visualizes the complex oscillating signal in the resonator. The wide range of forms and movements is mesmerizing to watch and allows for a synaesthetic experience of the instrument. The visual representation of the signal also assists the experienced user to remember and recreate parameter settings for specific sounds."

Aodyo Instruments Anyma Phi: Version 1.0 Sneak Peek

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"This trailer shows some of the new features of the upcoming version 1.0 update for the Anyma Phi, the physical modelling synthesizer by Aodyo Instruments. Among the new features, you will find: drum trigger and timbre follower modulators, tools for paraphonic patches, granular processor, three exciters, snare drum resonator, internal arpeggiator, MIDI clock sync, microtuning support with onboard editor, patch randomizer, and much more.

Read more about the new features and download the public beta here: https://community.aodyo.com/topic/114... [captured below]

Anyma Phi blends the classic ingredients of electronic music, like oscillators and filters, with physical modeling technology, allowing it to simulate acoustic sound sources, such as strings or reeds, as well as resonating structures, like wood, glass, or metal."

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