Repair shop talk

Not to completely turn this into a synth prOn blog or nuthin, but here's a photo of the guts of a Doepfer A-110:

This is the second Doepfer VCO I've repaired in as many months (give or take) and have to hand it to old Dieter for squeezing a maximum number of parts onto a single-sided board. That thing is crowded.

On both oscillators (a 110 and a 111), one or more of the legs on the octave switch detached from the board and had to be resoldered. No big deal. But! Because the board is single-sided, the pads for the legs are underneath a jack which is kludgely (new word!) surface mounted over them! Two parts sharing the same real estate-- talk about German efficiency! Clever work, sir.

This has been "Repair Shop Talk with Pete." Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Note to self...

...this is a nice sound.

Dr. Octature filter types

My semester is finished! Synth video summer vacation commence!

Here's a quick run-through of some of the filter types you can get by mixing a Dr. Octature's variously sloped and phased low pass filter outputs:

Side note: I bought that (mostly functional) Miniwave for $55, which stands alone as the best deal I've gotten so far in 2012.

"Euro Traveler"

Here's something I've been working on-- a Max patch controlling both video playback and voltage control over a modular synth.

All audio generated/recorded live. Enjoy!

(Video: "They Live" by John Carpenter)

UPDATE:

I've performed this patch live twice over the last couple of weeks, both times relatively successfully! Here are my crib notes: