08/2014 - Synth Controller Realtime-Tweaking ft. Microwave, Matrix-1000 and MKS-50

Published on Aug 16, 2014 stereoping

"A little song demo-ing my Synth Controllers. The video shows three of the controllers realtime-tweaking the sound of a Microwave, a Matrix-1000 and a MKS-50 all together while they get fired with notes by a PC-sequencer (Fruity Loops). The Matrix-1000 stutters a bit (we all know it's got some problems with SysEx) but i think it works quite well nevertheless, better than nothing.

The Synth Controllers are finally finished now in 08/2014 and you can purchase them from my webpage as a DIY assembly kit. Thanks to all the kind guys encouraging me to make a DIY-kit for the first K3 programmer i demo-ed here some years ago.

For detailed infos on the Synth Controller please visit my site. Also available are Controller-Editions for Korg DW-8000, Roland JX-8P and Kawai K3. More Editions to come. Contribute the poll on my site and help me to find out which editions people want next."

Stereoping Releases Hardware Synth Programmer for Microwave, Matrix1000 and Other Legends

"After months of pcb-layouting, programming, writing manuals and developing strategies, Stereoping located in germany releases his 'Synth Controller'. The Synth Controller connects to your synthesizer via midi to allow realtime editing of the synths patches. Currently available are six editions for the following legends: Waldorf Microwave, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Korg DW-8000/EX-8000, Roland JX-8P, Roland Alpha Juno 1/2/MKS-50 and Kawai K3/K3m. More will follow on demand, contribute the online-poll on the Stereoping-site which one to develop next. The Synth Controller is available as a complete diy-assembly kit with pcb, all parts, a cute steelcase painted in your synthesizer's color and a clearly layouted, high quality faceplate, graphically matching your synth's design - starting price: 238.- EUR plus shipping."  You'll find the Stereoping controller here.

STEREOPING Hardware Controller / Editor Prototype for Waldorf (TM) Microwave 1

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"hardware controller/editor for the Waldorf (TM) Microwave 1. It's a protoype of a test series. This is not DIY-crap, the pcb sits rocketsave screwed onto 6 metalbolts. Case and the PCB are professionally manufactured (2-layer, silkscreen, both sided solder stop mask), high quality Alps-pots with metal collar.

What this device does: plug it in between keyboard/sequencers Midi-Out and the Microwaves Midi-In, put a standard 9V DC PSU in the powerjack and dial the Microwaves parameters in realtime. The device converts your pot dials into the appropriate sysex-commands and offers a very efficient way of patch editing. Incoming midi data from keyboard or sequencer are merged with the commands of the controller, you can dial while you play on a keyboard or fire the Microwave with notes from your sequencer. Volume and Cutoff are always available, the other 14 x 3 = 42 (!) parameters are selected by the 3 lighted, quality push buttons in the upper left corner. Press red button -> controller sends the red parameters, press green button ... well ...

Please consider: this is a protoype! The frontpanel consists of ordinary but yet high quality inkjet print, glued on the metalcase and coated multiple times with clear coat. I used this technique on multiple divices which i worked with for years without problems of bleaching or detaching panels. On cutting out the holes i made a little scratch in the front, as you see in the last pic. The Number '1' and '2' for the INstrument Number in Multi mode are a bit behind the big knobs. I can change them to the smaller ones if you like. The PCB is sitting some millimeters to far inside of the case, using unconventionally thick midijacks might be problematic, normal Midijacks work perfect.

Some of the features:

- durable and cute black steelcase, protection diode against wrong polation of the PSU

- Midicontroller-Number to Sysex-Translator: besides each pot you see a small number. It corresponds to the midicontroller number you can use to edit this parameter on your Microwave. E.g. simply send midicontroller 11 into the device to change the cuttoff frequency.

- Multi edit mode: realtime dialing of the midicontrollers 1,2,3 & 7 on the first 4 midi channels. Using a corresponding sound-/multimode-patch you will get a modulation monster.

- Bypass-mode to let all mididata pass through the device without filtering (useful e.g. for dumping soundbanks)

- Letter-Mode: Dial a patchname on the microwave using the 16 pots

- Firmware update via Sysex-Dump

The controller will be delivered without power supply, but every ordinary 9V DC(!) guitar effects wallwart with center pin grounded will do. You also get a detailed manual with 32 pages in english or german. Sold from a private person. I am sure you want to keep the thing once you tried it. I therefore offer 14 days money back, although you will have to pay shipping if you want to send it back. You will also get 3 months of warranty if technical issues will arise. Shipping only to european countries. Pleaso do not bid if you do not live in europe."

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Techinfo - Encoder replacement Waldorf Microwave

Published on Nov 4, 2013 stereoping·26 videos

"Tech info - i got a used microwave and changed the encoder because it was a bit unprecise. The new encoder i bought had - unintendedly - a pushbutton function. I soldered the switch-pins of the encoder to the big OK-Button. Now the big red dialingknob can be pushed for switching between parameter and value - quite useful, i think."

Roland TR-0815 (808-DIY-clone) & Spring Reverb

The cheapest way to get the original spring reverb effect - demosong

Published on Aug 24, 2013 stereoping·22 videos

"This video demonstrates an interesting and imho not so commonly known trick: the use of a bare spring reverb tank with a mixer-insert to get that great spring reverb quite cheap without additional electronics: connect one of your mixers send-outputs with the tanks input and plug the tanks output just into a mic-in of the mixer. Adjust levels. Now this mixerchannel supplies the 100% wet springreverb signal of all channels, which send something into the tank using the mixers send-pots. Play with the reverb channels EQ or insert an external EQ to shape the reverbs color. In the demosong i add and remove tracks and play them dry and with springreverb to show the benefit of real springreverb. I inserted a Vermona EQ to play around with the frequencies. Please use the videoplayers pause-button if screens go to fast for reading - but i guess you are clever enough for having figured that out on yourself. Features machines: FL-Studio, TR-0815 (808-DIY-clone) synced by midiclock running internal sequencer, Yamaha TX7, Microwave 1, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Roland JX8P, Line6 EchoPark on some voicesamples."

This is the first TR-0815 post.

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TR-0815 drumsynth - audiodemo and Making Of

Published on Aug 25, 2013 stereoping·24 videos

"Video about the developement of my TR-808 DIY-Clone called TR-0815. While listening to some patterns of the finished machine you can have a look at some pictures of the inner parts and the making. All patterns are played by the TR-0815 with the internal stepsequencer, no midi here. Some of the features demonstrated in the audio are swing (0:49), flams (3:22), sequenced 'muted' (long/short) BassDrum (1:12) and Cowbell (0:24), sample/hold of digivoice (0:35 & 1:46), long decay of toms (2:39). If something is not sounding like 808 this might be the DigiVoice, one of the 2 voices i added to the clone because i had 2 triggerchannels left over. The DigiVoice can make some square-blibs, 8bit-noises, dirty Claps, broken Guiros and some sample/hold."


TR-0815 drumsynth - 8 min. parameter tweaking

Published on Aug 25, 2013

"This video shows each the voices parameters of my TR-808-clones in detail. Be prepared for 8 minutes of enoying pot dialing with some additional explaining text."


TR-0815 drumsynth - sequencer features and noise selector

Published on Aug 25, 2013

"Some of the sequencer features like step-programming and realtime programming, swing, flam, A/B copy, muted Steps for Bassdrum and Cowbell and voice muting. In the last third of the vid i show the function and sound of the noise-selector to guide the 3 noise-sources to Hihats/Cymbal and Clap/Maracas."