Herzlich Labs MAXIMA Touch Controller

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video upload by Esoteric Music Machines

"Super fun first play with the Herzlich Labs https://www.etsy.com/shop/HerzlichLab... MAXIMA touch controller, interfacing with Ieaskul F Mobenthey modules (Fourses, Denum, Denum, Sprott).

It's a really fun controller that works particularly well with the BOUNDS inputs on many IFM modules. It's housed in a custom (3D printed?) case, it's very fun to use, and I don't understand how an unpowered controller can even do what this one does, but there you are."

via this auction

"The MMI Maxima is the final word in MMI technology. Beautiful gold patterns form gradients of touch sensitive surface areas, each connected to an input/output. Drag, rub, pinch or tap your fingers across to form connections, and create evocative and unique performances. Utilize the various pattern densities and shapes in your performance, or create installations with whatever conductive material is to hand.

Operation is easy: simply plug any audio, LFO, CV, trigger, gate, offset or clock into any of the inputs on the front panel, and connect one or several outputs to destinations in your system. The symbols near the sockets correspond to the shapes on the panel, and all that remains is for you to form the connection between the desired symbols with your hand, or any other conductive object you may have. Connect multiple at the same time to achieve liquid, gradual mixing, evolving rhythmic patterns, mixed LFOs and more. Furthermore, touch the pressure plates more firmly or in more dense areas to form stronger connections - in practice, this means a signal will pass with more or less intensity, based on the pressure you apply."

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Ciat-Lonbarde Fourses

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"Unique piece of sound art; this noise machine features paper circuit, Fourses, designed by Peter B.

8% of the profits from this sale will be sent to Peter B as donation/thank you for use of his paper circuits.

104 brass sandrodes and one copper listener node, internal speaker switched off by 1/4” out, powered by 9v battery or 12vdc wall wart (not included), 8 white LED under Apophylite crystal points – one with some Stilbite, 8 knobs, walnut, purple heart and birch, acrylic bottom – protected by rubber feet.

Note, first three photos use flash, which bounces off the beeswax and olive oil used to seal the wood. This makes it appear brighter and redder. Under more normal light, the wood looks darker and more muted. Pics w/o flash give a little better idea, but probably sunlight would be best. Anyways, i'll leave that to you."

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TEST SERIES Ieaskul F. Mobenthey 2x Benjolin NonLinear Circuits Erica Matrix Mixer Ciat Lonbarde

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"Erica Synths Matrix Mixer
Ciat Lonbarde Ieaskul F. Mobenthey Denum, Dunst, Swoop, Fourses, Sprout.
Benjolin V1 and V2 with expanders.
NonLinear Circuits NLC Brain Custard, Quad Jerk Chaos, 1050 Seq/Mix
Ornament & Crime

The purpose of 'TEST SERIES' is to focus on the sound design possibilities of various gear combinations. This series is not musical nor does it serve as an instructional video. It is all about sound potential.

Please consider supporting this channel by purchasing a sample pack or music download from www.outsidersounddesign.com"

Ciat Lonbarde Sidrollz Lil Sidrassi Rollz5 Handmade Synthesizer

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video upload by Austin Richey

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"Incredible combo of Peter Blasser's Lil Sidrassi and Rollz circuits. Made and purchased from seller Pickle's Gear Garage here on Reverb. Check out his shop! He does great work. Here's the original description:
Patchable, squishable noise maker From the basement emerges a prickly friend to drone, squeal, sing, and sputter along with. The box is built on #ciatlonbarde’s Lil Sidrassi and Rollz paper circuits, with a set of switched capacitors that can take you from ultrasonic and sub-bass frequencies with the flick of a switch. Below the switches are the Rollz, rhythmic drivers that send electric impulses to the Lil Sid. When connected to the Rollz, the Sid’s five oscillators can respond regularly - giving you techno textures - or chaotic - producing ultrasonic guinea pig battle cries.

9V Center Negative, includes a banana ground for connecting with other noisy friends.
Note: The only patch points that can be connected (after grounding) to other similar gear are the red ones, otherwise you may damage your gear!! Negative voltages are no joke!

Also Note: The Sidrollz in the Youtube video is the same one you are purchasing!

This thing is wild and super fun to use! I'm throwing in some small banana cables since I won't have much use for them after this and the Fourses sell. Consider it a gift from one weirdo musician to another :)"

TEST SERIES Ieaskul F. Mobenthey 2x Benjolin NonLinear Circuits Eurorack Ciat Lonbarde Sound Design

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"WARNING!!! This video has fast flashing lights which can cause problems for some viewers.
Sound design test focusing on some of the more esoteric eurorack modules.
Ciat Lonbarde Ieaskul F. Mobenthey Denum, Dunst, Swoop, Fourses, Sprout.
Benjolin V1 and V2 with expanders.
NonLinear Circuits NLC Brain Custard, Quad Jerk Chaos, 1050 Seq/Mix
Ornament & Crime

The purpose of “TEST SERIES” is to focus on the sound design possibilities of various gear combinations. This series is not musical nor does it serve as an instructional video. It is all about sound potential.

Please consider supporting this channel by purchasing a sample pack or music download from www.outsidersounddesign.com"

Fourses Tarp Autumn Altar

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Graham Franz

"A quick demo of my custom build Ciat-Lonbarde Fourses Tarp"

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"This is a custom built version of the Ciat-Lonbarde Fourses Tarp paper circuit. It is a chaotic oscillator consisting of four triangle oscillators bouncing off of each-other. Each jack is both an input and an output. Make connections using banana jacks or by touching the nodes. Product contains a built-in speaker. Runs on battery power. A ground jack is provided for connecting with other gear. I have only tested this with other Ciat-Lonbard paper circuits, inter-patch at your own risk! Banana cables not included."

You can find additional posts featuring Fourses here.

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Ieaskul F. Mobenthey and Mr. Grassi

Published on Aug 18, 2019 hajimmie

"Yet another noise jam from I.F.M modules and Mr. Grassi. Here the patching is rather simple - using only single Denum, Fourses, Dumst, Mr. Grassi, and 3Sisters. Despite that I think it come out nice as noise impro."

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This one made me think of incorporating touch pads on the surface of eurorack modules vs. separate controller modules.

Ieaskul F. Mobenthey Starter Pack

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"A couple Swoops short of the full set available from Synthmall, this sale includes:

-Denum
-Another Denum
-Swoop
-Fourses
-Sprott
-Dunst"

Orlando Electronic Music Meetup (4/23/16) - Fourses meets Eurorack Modular Synth Demo

Published on May 16, 2016 Derek Morton

"Derek Morton demo's a homebuilt Ciat Lonbarde Fourses as well as an Eurorack Modular Synth.

For more information on:
Orlando Electronic Music Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Orlando-Electro...

Ciat Lonbarde: http://synthmall.com/"

This one in via Tony Miracle.

Ieaskul F. Mobenthey Eurorack Modules From Ciat-Lonbarde's Peter Blasser

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"Peter Blasser's - Ieaskul F. Mobenthey modules are now In-Stock. Couldn't be happier to have Peter's stuff in-stock, he's been pushing the limits of instrument design and the philosophy behind it for years with Ciat-Lonbarde and very much encompasses the ideals of what we find inspiring about synthesis, electronics and the makers who make them. Limited Qty available."

Details on each, captured for the MATRIXSYNTH archives, follow. You'll find a video of them previously posted here.

"Ieaskul F. Mobenthey - Denum

The Denum module is essentially a bounds/bounce oscillator. It has the “triangle core” circuitry used in many
oscillators, but it adds a correlated bounds modulation, according to the concept (see below). Here, bounds and
bounce are each given equal treatment, with separate linear and exponential controls and inputs. In addition,
this module has a fully featured bi-polar VCA with complimentary inputs, to get you quickly going sending
“bb-objets” out the left and right channels.

Denum is an 8HP Eurorack module that runs on +12 and -12 volts. Attach power connector positive to “+” and
negative to “-”. Failure to follow proper power polarity will result in instant destruction of unit.

Looking at the front panel of Denum, note that inputs are marked by copper fill. There are three main sections:
bounce, bounds, and the VCA. Bounce is above bounds to emphasize the numerator/denominator relationship
of the two. Each of the two has exactly the same inputs and knobs. The “basis” knob sets the base rate or
position for bounds. There is a linear control input, marked by a a caret. Linear modulation is an alternative
input for pre-enveloped audio, since it has no attenuverter. However, the exponential control input is tied to an
attenuverter, marked by a characteristic bow-tie. An attenuverter works like this: at noon the modulations are
nulled out, they have no effect; clockwise from there they increase in intensity, with positive input meaning
“more”; to the counter-clockwise direction, modulations increase as well, but with negative input meaning
“more”. This knob is essential to controlling how much, and in which direction, your modulations apply.
Between the bounds and bounce areas, there is a range switch. When in middle position, Denum runs at a
standard audio rate. Pointing downward is a low audio rate, and pointing upwards is a definite CV, lowest rate.

The triangle output speaks the position of the waveform in voltage, and square expresses the frequency in terms of
negative and positive 10 volts. The triangle output is bussed into the left and right audio inputs of the VCA,
at bottom. Either can be swapped out for external audio energies, via the “left, right signal inserts”. The “left,
right VCA inputs” are for controlling the amplitude of the signals, with either a linear or exponential mapping. If the
left input is greater than right, sound goes out the “left out”. If right is greater than left, sound goes out the
“right out”. The voltage amount of difference maps to loudness in these channels. The “linear, expo switch”
chooses linear when cocked up, as marked by a caret, and exponential when cocked down, as marked by a
rounded form. There is an optional mute when the switch is in the middle.

About Bounds/Bounce

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Four Eurorack Modules by Ieaskul F. Mobenthey

Published on Aug 31, 2014 Peter B

"Run through, using Tektronix 5103N oscilloscope to visualize, of the following four modules:
FOURSES
DENUM
SWOOP
SPROTT
Available as soon as I get knobs and pots (about a month)
synthmall.com"

Peter B is Peter Blasser, the man behind Ciat-Lonbarde. This is from his YouTube channel.

fluxmonkey @ grog pizza night 1 26 9

YouTube via MegaSuperNoise. via fluxmonk
"for fans of improvised bug music... my pal Ryan from Thursday Club (fine circuitbender & dj himself) posted a clip of a recent solo fluxmonkey performance...

video's a little dark, but 100% homemade analog synth:

* FracCab1.jpg
* fluxmonk_performanceUnit1.jpg
* a peter blasser Fourses

no samples no pedals no fx no feedback.

more info and sounds at www.fluxmonkey.com

fluxmonk"

Lemon Fourses

Remember Ciat Lonbarde? Here's a video of a cat playing with a Lemon Fourses. Click the image to launch the video. Title link takes you to Ciat Lonbarde, where you will find the Lemon Fourses and more.

via Sendling.

Update via Sendling:
"I got the pic from ciat-lonbarde site where is written that we see a "kitty with a fyrall". but ok, if you^re sure that it`s a lemon forses.... va bene :-)"

Looks like it's referred to both, "Lemon Fourses" on the home page and both on the other. Updating this post just in case someone searches on either.

Ciat Lonbarde

Title link takes you to Ciat Lonbarde's website. Home to some truly unique and esoteric synths and more. You want wood? Here you go. Check out the knobs. Reminds me of those little sandwich wraps. Just pick one up and chow. : )

"For you, Ciat-Lonbarde will make the finest instruments to listen to spacey sounds and make space reggae. These instruments feature the sandrode philosophy, a path to intuition. You are presented with infinite possibilities arranged in the random sandrodes and the connections you make in them. You touch them softly or short them metallicly to scroll thru different sonic worlds of sound. The Fourses and Fyrall are two kits to make your own sandrode sonic worlds. "

Hmm... Space... Reggae... Pot... Sandwich wraps. Mmmm....

Joking aside... Truly beautiful design. Make sure to check out the rest. Amazing.