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navs.modular.lab: A-143-9 Lin-FM & Buchla Saw Modification
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014. A-143-9 Lin-FM and Buchla Saw Modification. How to add a linear FM input to Doepfer's quadrature oscillator and get the weird waveshapes of Buchla's 258 VCO. Most analogue VCOs are linear at heart. To get the response we need for musical pitches, CVs need to be translated. If we bypass the part of the circuit that does this - the exponential converter - we should be able to modulate the VCO in a linear fashion. The reason FM-ing the A-143-9 sounds so good is that there's no wav...
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navs.modular.lab: April 2013
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013. Basic Electricity - Concert this Friday. Join us for Basic Electricity #9. This Friday, 19th April when Max Loderbauer. Makes his solo debut on Buchla 200e. Synthesizer and Erik Dower. Goes head-to-head with the Boom Doctor. BE#9, 19.04.13, Doors: 21:00. Looking forward to seeing you at BE#9! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Support navs.modular.lab - buy a track! Basic Electricity - Concert this Friday. Patch of the day. 169; 2008 - 2016 navs.modular.lab. View my complete profile.
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navs.modular.lab: July 2015
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Saturday, 18 July 2015. Deriving a Beat clock and End of Loop pulse from the Electro-Harmonix ‘Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai’. An update to these previous posts. I recently attended a talk with Charles Cohen. A musician who has improvised with a Buchla Music Easel for several decades. The Easel is a monophonic instrument but Cohen’s music. Is multi-layered. To achieve this, he uses long, looping delays to record in a ‘sound-on-sound’. Here's what's possible: ehx-smmh-looper-mod.mp3. Unlike the ’16...
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navs.modular.lab: June 2013
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Friday, 21 June 2013. June 29 - Richard Scott and Navs Live. Join us for a special Basic Electricity. At Sonic Dimension/ Club Magdalena on Saturday, 29th June. Richard Scott. Will play their own pick-of-the-patches and top the evening with a rare appearance as modular synth supergroup, Banana Jaxxx. Basic Electricity live at Sonic Dimension 2. 29613 • 22:00 • Club Magdalena • 10243. 8226; Resident Advisor. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Support navs.modular.lab - buy a track! Patch of the day.
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navs.modular.lab: Most Hazarai
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Saturday, 18 July 2015. Deriving a Beat clock and End of Loop pulse from the Electro-Harmonix ‘Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai’. An update to these previous posts. I recently attended a talk with Charles Cohen. A musician who has improvised with a Buchla Music Easel for several decades. The Easel is a monophonic instrument but Cohen’s music. Is multi-layered. To achieve this, he uses long, looping delays to record in a ‘sound-on-sound’. Here's what's possible: ehx-smmh-looper-mod.mp3. Unlike the ’16...
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navs.modular.lab: Serge VCS Modification
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Sunday, 22 March 2015. Modifying the Doepfer A-171-2 Serge VCS for more extreme non-linear curves and more manual control over rise and fall times. The Serge Voltage Controlled Slope. Is a classic design and an integral part of many modular musicians’ systems. The Doepfer A-171-2. Is a faithful recreation of the original circuit. It works just like the Bananalogue VCS. That has been in my case since pre- Maths. Times That’s good, and bad. The feedback that generates non-linear shapes. At switches SWF and...
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navs.modular.lab: September 2014
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Wednesday, 3 September 2014. Patch Tips #27 - An FM Equivalent. An analogue take on digital FM featuring the Toppobrillo Triple Wavefolder. Today's Patch Tip is inspired by MitchXI's description of a digital implementation of FM. If, like me, you feel digital is cheating, here's an analogue solution:. For the look-up table we can use the TWF's saw-to-sine function. This method has it's limits: If the modulator is too slow the 'FM' effect will be negligible. This patch won't replace your thru-zero. How to...
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navs.modular.lab: NAMM & Noodles
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Saturday, 21 March 2015. NAMM 2015 was a bit of a blur. It was my first visit and at times a little overwhelming. But it was lovely to meet friends old and new and I’m looking forward to next year. Thanks to Andreas Schneider. And the gang for an unforgettable experience. Thanks also to Dennis Vershoor, aka mono-poly, and his Noodlebar. Crew for a great time in Rotterdam. Dennis performed at the first Basic Electricity. In Berlin so it was nice for me to play the return leg on his home turf.
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navs.modular.lab: April 2015
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Friday, 10 April 2015. Adding gated hold and burst functions and an End of Rise output to Doepfer’s Serge VCS. An update to this post. A recent forum thread. About the Serge 1973 envelope. Got me thinking about whether it would be possible to add its hold function to the VCS. Once I’d understood what was needed, a burst. And EOR pulse were obvious additions. Cycling VCS FMs a VCO, button pressed to hold), Burst. First manual, then activated by 2nd row of sequencer). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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navs.modular.lab: A-171-2 VCS Expander
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Friday, 10 April 2015. Adding gated hold and burst functions and an End of Rise output to Doepfer’s Serge VCS. An update to this post. A recent forum thread. About the Serge 1973 envelope. Got me thinking about whether it would be possible to add its hold function to the VCS. Once I’d understood what was needed, a burst. And EOR pulse were obvious additions. Cycling VCS FMs a VCO, button pressed to hold), Burst. First manual, then activated by 2nd row of sequencer). 5 July 2015 at 21:24. Patch of the day.
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