Interesting! I’m going to fit my board with those little round gold plated things that chips plug into… so will be able to swap out capacitors easily, may even do that with the resistors too. The components will be fitted with round gold plated ends too, like plug and play… possibly will solder the MOSFETs on though.
I can, and do pull tracks up when swapping components on a bad day… All I have to do is fit the components with nice plated ends, and I can tune / setup the synth really easily…
All will become clear when I actually build my 10 oscillator mini drone.
I bought several strips of these for another project that suggested socketing the transistors. You can cut them to size easily if you make a small cut. Then you usually need to shorten the legs of whatever you are putting in them.
Is there an app or a website that reliably supports synchronous recording of distributed instruments over the internet? Live play could be difficult, but it should be possible to record live music from a basic score with scheduled obbligato (solo) spots.
Another way to do this might be using traditional multi-track recording techniques, but that would require post-editing and you’d lose the live music aspect.
A unique solution is a unique platform for recording of sound sources over the internet for a live granular synthesis or reverberation simulation composition. Take advantage of the challenges of keeping the recordings synchronous by multiplying the complexity of the sound sources. If someone wanted to record with others there’s a DAW which is cloud capable but it would require everyone to work on their recording in simultaneous session with others working on the composition. That has been known to be chaotic.
Completed my Megadrone today. Works great. I used IC-headers for the caps. A bit wobbly but when I decide which capps to keep I’ll solder them in the board. I now have 47uF 2x 22uF 1x 10uF 3x 1uF 3x and .47uF 1x.
Awesome idea with the headers. I might do the same thing. I have been trying to think what caps to use but now I can swap them over without any trouble.
just looking I think the preset adjustment pot may make it ok to work with. cus that is directly controlling the master tune knob that is just a voltage divider, so I think it should be ok. however maybe on the safe side socket them! also if you find it doesn’t work it will just be a case of adjusting the resistors next to the master tune knob. depending what the outcome is. however I have a feeling it would be ok
