"I have just uploaded a Battery 3 kit I did from my KPR77 which has the Plutonique9 Kick mods. Includes velocity switching for accent/non-accent sounds. Also includes the rather nice metronome sounds from the KPR."
Title link takes you there. Note the zip contains WAV files so you don't need Battery.
Details: "Star Synare Percussion Module. I am told that this is a prototype of the PS1 because the pads are not mounted up front as on the production model. This unit has a strange connector on the back of the box to make the external trigger pad connections. Inside the unit is a circuit board that looks to be hand soldered and a hand written diagram beside the connectors to show the different trigger pad connections. I don't know if this unit is functional as far as sound output. I plugged in headphones and played with all of the pots and never heard anything. I do however, see that the LFO led blinks at different rates when I adjust that pot."
"Here's a new kind of box, this time made from the guts of an interactive red Teletubbie doll. The light box is originally from the doll's stomach, ripped out, rehoused, and glitched out. Lots of interesting switches that mess up the noises which already sounded weird to begin with. Enjoy."
"This is modular porta-power! A 3.5 octave stylus keyboard outputting standard 1v/oct CVs, gate, trigger etc - housed in a case that can hold 7 Fracrak sized modules. Plus some footcontrols thrown in too! Keyboard built with schems from Music From Outer Space.
This is the first tests - not everything is quite finalized yet but its working pretty darn good already! More details & videos coming soon...
"Hey! New Weevil Prototype trying out some new ideas.... CNC Engraved Frontpanel - tinned pcb frontpanel with 9 touchpoints and engravings around controls Twin ringmod oscillators with pitching / range / pulse width / low power Resonant 2-pole low pass filter - gnarly when resonant Compact size - the production model will be bigger - this is a bit too cramped! Note - this is a prototype only - check www.bugbrand.co.uk to see production development sometime soon..."
You input gate signals to select the step (A through D) - this is binary counting (ie Bit0 and Bit1 -- 00, 01, 10, 11 - does that make sense?!) and the two Bit inputs each have two gate inputs that are OR'd together. Probably losing you now to tech-sleep!
Whatever,,, the Bit inputs select the step and there are two independent preset columns - each step having a range of 0 to +5v.
So, one of my modular techniques is to take a regular clock signal and divide it many ways - - 2,3,5,7,9,13,137 etc... Combine these back together and you get a regular pulse but confused with some cross-rhythms and morphing. FIre the BitInputs from four different clock divisions and the SeqStep will jump between the different steps.
Nice lights too!
Sorry about the wobbly-cam effect!"
"The Wurlitzer SideMan was arguably the world's first drum machine. It depends on whether you count the Chamberlin Rhythmate, which was introduced some years earlier, but featured tape loops instead of electronically generated drum sounds. In any event, the SideMan is definitely the first "beat box." I just picked this one up for $50. It's got all its guts exposed so you can see how it works."
via punkdISCO who brought us this great video:
