via Sequence 15 where you'll find the full write-up on the MOTM-650 and the Encore Electronics UEG-01 Universal Event Generator.
"Each channel converts a MIDI Note On/Off pair to a control voltage representing pitch, an envelope gate, a control voltage representing velocity, and a fourth output which can be associated with a MIDI control number. The pitch CV reacts and responds to MIDI pitch wheel messages also."
"So what is a universal event generator? It's an expansion and generalization of the concept of an envelope generator. We tend to think of a conventional ADSR envelope generator as having four phases, but it's really only three, and we only have full control over one of the three..."
"Improving on a design and sharing the results with our users is always at the top of our list at Livid. The Block controller has been a great success and we have just made some minor design changes to make it even better. Originally milled from a solid block of wood, the square body with thin bottom has had its challenges, mostly warping and cupping. We have experienced a bit higher reject rate for bodies at the shop before they were built then we would like. Thus, the up and coming stash of rejected bodies in the Livid Graveyard that were never meant to be!"
YouTube via johnsoncp13 " A replacement video (audio went wrong on previous) demonstrating my Waldorf Blofeld. I'm using a Novation XioSynth 49 to drive it via MIDI. "
YouTube via RothHandle "Yesterday was a short good day in the studio...Mattias Puttonen (a fellow Mellotron geek) came by and lent me his Maestro Echoplex. A great old tape echo and these short films are just me messing about and being blown away be this remarkable piece of equipment. This will without doubt become a staple in the Roth Händle sound.
This film was recorded at Roth Händle studos in Stockholm, Sweden. This is where I spend my days recording and producing artists...The studio started in my apartment and evolved slowly from there. This is the forth location of the studio. The first one obviously was at home...the second and third was at a abandoned shipyard outside of Stockholm. The studio works more or less in two ways either the artists come here to the studio or people send files that I work with...If you are curious to find out more about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu for more info, blogs and odd facts. Oh yes and now I am on facebook too with a dedicated roth händle site...I dont know how to link to it but you people are all so internet smart so you can find...if you want to.
Don't miss the full post including videos on A Disco Ate My Baby. I almost posted the videos here as they were going up, but I contacted Adam Inglis and asked him about them. We opted to hold off for his page to go up. Go check it out to see why.
Excerpt: "The "Roland Rhythm" TR-77 was Roland's very first product, from 1972. It makes its distinctive drum voices from what are called "tuned resonant" circuits, which consist of a capacitor, an inductor and a resistor - very basic!. The patterns are preset rock, jazz and latin styles of 1 or 2 bars. There are no user-programmable patterns, because there is no "memory" - the patterns are hard-wired. That is, they are literally made from a matrix of wires between the transistor flip-flop counters, connected by diodes, to the inputs of the voice circuits, depending on which buttons on the front panel are pushed in (Pushing one in causes the others to disengage, but if you're careful you can manage to get more than one to stay in, giving you a mix of patterns.)
My main motivation for investigating the gubbins of this old beast was to see if there was a way to synchronize it to a source of external clock. I also wanted to know if there were any good voice mods possible. But another reason was that I wanted to understand how this basic type of pattern sequencing worked, because my amateur electronic explorations hadn't really covered this so far." You can find the videos and full details on A Disco Ate My Baby.
via Sequence 15 where you'll find the full write-up on the MOTM-650 and the Encore Electronics UEG-01 Universal Event Generator.
