"DIY HOW TO make a proper synth oscillator, with temperature compensation 1v/oct and all that jazz! using the CEM 3340.
Im giving away 5 component packs, and a DIY modular furby i built on a livestream a week ago, on my patreon next week! so if you want any of that go check that out!
Patreon :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomp...
Where there will also be updates on the progression of this project before it goes up anywhere else! All the funds goes straight back into Look mum machines :)
"I made a Fixed Frequency #Filter Bank like in #moog modulars, by modifying a Bruel & Kjaer 2113 Audio Frequency Spectrometer! For the stripboard layout of the mixer check my website #synth.
Check back next week for a more in depth look at the process of making this mean machine. It will be up on my patreon in 2/3 days mind, as my amazing patreons make it possible to have time to work out how to make something as creepy as this...
https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer
Built using cheap ass servo's a teensy 3.2 microchip, some ping pong balls and chattering teeth form the joke shop. it was surprisingly simple to build as the rest of it was made from scrap sitting around, (blocks of plywood, bendy plastic and strips of metal). With a bit of effort and thought, it wouldn't be hard to replicate for under 40 quid.
Build A Robot Animatronic Face For 30 Quid for a modular synth?
Published on Apr 2, 2018
"How to build an animatronic robotic face? for a modular synth? ofcourse.........
A zine with concepts and more info on the gubbins will be up on my patreon this week! the support helps a lot to doing these vids more even a quid! :) :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomp..."
"There are a number of variants of the safety valve but this matches the 1.0 version Which i think sounds the best, Having tried various versions including the 2.0 and also the GMSN version which has an input buffer and a slightly different circuit, they just didn’t tick the main box which was, TONEEEE MOTHERFUDGING TONEEE. So i thought screw it, and took it back to the Safety Valve 4710.
It does not have any CV control this is for the above reason and also namely, with valve distortion the sound adjustments are more to do with the level of things going into it, so i didn’t see it as being particularly important to complicate the circuit further just to add CV control over things that don’t do as good of a job as adjusting things earlier in the signal chain. The best approach is to treat it like a pedal, it has a switch to turn it on, it accentuates aspects of the sound in a warm waffly kind of manner, and can boost the signal a heck of alot!
Also the Tone control is just a simple RC filter (a resistor and a capacitor) so that didn’t make sense to make CV controllable either as having a filter after the safety valve would do the same thing controllably but better.
There are a couple of differences between this design and the 4710 in the inital video, that being, there is an LED behind the valve this acts as a signal monitor, it listens to whatever goes on in the safety valve and lights up accordingly, Even when bypassed. There is also an engage LED next to the switch.
When there is nothing plugged into the input it goes into feedback mode this is purposeful, it means you can use the module as a drone. You can remove this mode with a simple cutting of a trace on the jack socket PCB board if its annoying but I dont see why you would feel the need. :D
One more thing to note! This kind of distortion like a lot of distortions dont do much to simple sound sources like a single square wave for instance. if you put a single unmixed square wave in, thats what you get out."
"The Elka Drummer One is no Klaus Dinger or Jaki Liebzeit, but it deserves its place in the history of Krautrock drumming. It was used by a bunch of German bands at the time, most prominently the wonderful Harmonia, a supergroup consisting of members of Neu! and Cluster (some of which where involved in a short-lived iteration of Karftwerk, too). In this video I show its functions (including a big surprise at the very end) and how @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER and me used it on our EP 'Pipe Dreams', out now on https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/p..."
"Credits:
Michael Rother: guitar, el. percussion, piano & organ
Hans-Joachim Roedelius: electronic organ & piano
Dieter Moebius: synthesizer, electronic percussion
All music written, performed by Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius
Recording, editing and artwork by Harmonia
Recorded live in concert on 23rd March 1974 at Penny Station in Griessem Germay"
"@GazWilliams was at Syntheast this weekend - organised by @MoltenMusicTech it was the first held at Norwich Arts Centre in the UK. With a daytime session and evening performance session the event was sold out, by all accounts a lot of fun.
Gaz Williams talks to Steve Davis, @DivKid , @MoltenMusicTech , @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER and others.
http://syntheast.com"
we shot a couple of quick chats when we set up this room, future sundays will have more synth sounds!!!! i promise
museum upen on December 22nd 5pm-8pm the organ will be playing crimbo tunes. ALSO OPEN 1-4 DECEMBER 29th And 30th."
"Today we Chat with @Elektortek about the STEIM synthesizer
You can support these videos and get lots of extra videos and songs here :- / lookmumnocomputer
Patreon is a massive enable to making videos, the larger DIY projects would be a lot more strung out without it! so i cant thank my supporters enough.
It Also keeps the lights on at @THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE where you can come and play this synth!
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ACID SOLDER CLUB Veerle Pennock :-
https://veerlepennock.com/
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SIMON CLAESSEN :-
https://drukknop.nl/
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HACK 42 :-
https://hack42.nl/blog/"
See the STEIM label directly below for additional posts.
"The First Synthesizer Sundays with @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
museum upen on December 22nd 5pm-8pm the organ will be playing crimbo tunes. ALSO OPEN 1-4 DECEMBER 29th And 30th.
See more stuff and Support the museum here :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomp..."
"SO YOU WANT A DISTORTION FOR YOUR GUITAR/SYNTH/DRUM MACHINE/BAG PIPES whatever. this is a good place to start.
NOW! you got your cereal. remember the times you got free prizes at the bottom, well now it can be some effects. all you need are these items, which i have put together here for you :- http://lookmumnocomputer.bigcartel.com/…/distortion-box-par…
over on the look mum no computer store.
you can definitely source them yourself! it won't be hard going in with this list into your local electronics store and coming out with those parts, they are extremely common electronic components :-
2x Jack Sockets
1x 100k Potentiometer
1x 100k Resistor
1x 100nf capacitor
1x 1n4148
1x 1uf electrolytic capacitor
1x 9V battery socket
Wire. enough to complete the project
and some electronic paint, i used Bare Conductive's awesome paint for this. not only does it make the connections it does a really good job of sticking it all together.
"This bike was built for Science Gallery Dublin, where you can actually ride it right now till september!
Its primary goal was to be useable by anyone. The last synth bike was very cryptic, it had more functions but was hard to understand! This is a synth bike for everyone.
Its an analog synth, and a drum machine all built into a groove box on handlebars. It consists of 12 arduinos! The synth is An oscillator going into a frequency central VCF VCA, and also being quantized and octaved by a Frequency central TRANS EUROPA. there is a wav trigger holding all of the drums! and the power supplies are FREQUENCY CENTRAL also. its a proper spaghetti junction!
"The #Lightsaber Theremin! This took quite a bit of working out. but now its all working and worked out! you can try! simply using a sparkfun accelerometer.
the samples. and sound will be available on my patreon soon! aswell as info prior to it going up on my site :):-
Patreon :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer"
I've added inserts to the first 3 channels of the mixer to allow FX send and return
I also wired up the big button for afterlife's MIDI upgrade: [video here] ..but it doesn't seem to behave well with this build so currently I've got the original code installed on the arduino until I resolve the issue
"German HiFi Manufacturer Teufel was getting rid of the analog system they used to design crossovers for their loudspeakers. I could not pass up the opportunity to get this piano-sized analog filterbank in my studio. Together with @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I explored the musical use of this gigantic piece of obsolete technology.
"How to make a BIG BUTTON DIY Arduino based drum trigger sequencer. Layout, Code and the list of components is available :- https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/pro..."
Check out the Furby organ synth here, and check out the synth bike via the synth bikes label directly below.
