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The Mutable Instruments CVpal USB midi-cv is excellent value for money; ~£15 for 2 channels of 1v/Oct and 2 gates. Yes, you might eventually outgrow it, but it’s something that’s still very useful( drum triggers, extra oscillator, anyone?)
Have fun, it’s a great journey to go on!
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Welcome Chris, Nice blog, Ki cad, breadboards, audio, and art. Good mixture
Howdy folks. Recently began building Kosmo modules as a teaching tool for my high school engineering class. The larger form factor suits that purpose better than Eurorack. The students seem to dig it, and I have a couple who are breadboarding some of the Moritz Klein stuff. Here’s what we’ve got so far…
As we start to plan for more modules, I’m beginning to think about power consumption. Has anyone measured the current draw from any of Sam’s modules?
Cheers!
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Nice work, welcome in the forum
That’s awesome. Thanks for pointing me to the data. I figured the VCO would be a hungry munchkin. 
Welcome. Great to see synths in schools. Do keep us all posted.
Heya,
Ive just signed up to thank cake industried for the clock multiplier, so should do intro stuff too. Im more of a reader then writer normally, mostly because, gah! Phone keyboards…
Ive been into diy synths for about 7 years after building my first APC…
I now have a fully diy modular system, with an expanding range of circuit bent keyboards and toys which tend to have cv or triggers in and out as well as internal mods so they all talk to each other.
I have a bike-synth mashup which ive sporadically performed with for about 5 or 6 years. We are fully bike mobile, play enroute and then stop to jam/perform as guerilla buskers. Its fully improvisational and we use 95%my diy gear. the other key performance aspects is that we have a bunch of unique input devices: several light sensors which we use to sample ambient light for CV or trigger (eg a Flashing bike light = lfo), a complete riable bike with 6 dynamo generators which are patched out to my modular. The standard bike generator is an AC current source, so with some minimal protection circuitry they are a perfect audio source or CV for fm type effects. Plus of course, playing a bike cabled into a synth is a pretty unique spectacle…
This started out as The Electric Light Bike Orchestra, then we morphed into cyclic.entanglement and currently are playing as photosynthesis. I still use the cyclic moniker myself, but there are a few other cyclics out there already…
This would be my enormously popular page with cuts of some random jams. I dont post produce anything since we are always improvisational, so these are literally just raw cuts of some good bits:
And heres an example of the latest bend i have nearly finished
Cheers!
Lance(what my mum calls me) / cyclic (what i pretend that really cool people would call me)
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Welcome to the forum !
hack of all kinds, bending then modular, it looks like we traveled through the same experimental door but in a different place of the world , in any case it makes me want to see the performance of synth bikes !
Hello!
It occurred to me that I just had kind of popped up without introducing myself.
I’m Jesse and I’m half of artist duo “Cake Industries” (with Dean Petersen). We’re in Australia SW of Ballarat (2 hours from Melbourne which is almost local in Australian distances).
We’ve been an artist duo for over 15 years, having started with a crazy performance in the warehouse we were living in at a party (as the best origin stories are) and we make mechatronic sculptures and experimental performance works. We try not to limit ourselves too much, so we tend to follow what interests us and very much enjoy distorting the physical world around us.
We have been making and using music and sound in our work from the start, but only seriously recently starting building analogue modular synth stuff. Previously we used lots of generative and programming/sample based sound usually in tools like PureData.
You can see some of our work here:
http://www.cake.net.au
But also we’re a little more active on our Instagram where we tend to show process and more bits and pieces as we work:
https://www.instagram.com/cake_industries/
(but who knows we’ll be on that platform with the increasing unease we have with Zuckerberg and his robotic takeover of the world)
We’ve been recently making a concerted effort to bring all of our video together onto our YouTube channel where we plan to start making videos specifically for YouTube after years of staying away from it:
https://www.youtube.com/c/cakeindustries
We also have music-making personas though we both have been neglecting them recently. I play under “percentpercent” and Dean under “flousm” on Bandcamp. Though now I’m saying this I feel like I need to maybe go edit out some songs I’m not happy with from there now haha!
Also musically I really enjoy shredding up music as covers in my style - bandcamp of course frowns on covers so here’s one I’m particularly proud of - the grunting heaving nightmare vocoder is my fav for destroying Mariah Carey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwoKuK2Kcbg
I also enjoy repairing and hacking things, where I sometimes blog about them:
https://jessestevens.com.au/
(I’m a big open source software advocate, I use Linux, make kooky smart home stuff that feels like something out of chitty chitty bang bang, enjoy hacking robots and robotic vacuums, as well as vintage computers, that’s mainly what you’ll find there)
sooooooo hello!
I’m watching and listening all this links, a lot of crazy things, like it !!!
Crazy things is my middle name
Welcome to the forum Jesse. I am located about 50klm North of Melbourne. I am looking at your Beat Multiplier strip board now. Just the thing I need.
Hello everyone!
I am Wouter, I am from the Netherlands and I’m generally interested in electronics, radio, music and video making. My amateur radio callsign is PA3WEG, so hence the user name.
During the daytime I am working in aerospace as satellite communications systems engineer designing satellites and accompanying bits and bobs and also a network engineer.
I recently signed up to this forum after finding out it’s existence by Sam linking me to here.
Apart from my job I am the sound engineer for a couple of bands, make videos and tinker with electronics and other tech.
I found Sams channel a few years ago when my friend Orla Gartland collaborated with him
I’m incredibly diverse in hobbies and always walking in to my next project!
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Welcome to the forum
Welcome. I am very impressed with Orla’s writing and performing. Her performance of Common People with Sam was superb. Our community seems to enjoy a great breadth of hobbies and interests, so many of which can be used musically or in fabrication and who knows, one day, a Kosmo satellite! Enjoy.
