Gear Aquisition Zone [buy/sell/swaps]

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(o)(o) wrote:Been wanting to try drums for years. Had some V-drums in the house for a few days finding it very therapeutic and good exercise.. :D

Just starting to get some limb independence...
Been tempted by something similar for a while, would love to try drums.

So we going to start posting music soon? Finding the OT brilliantly challenging, I'm not overly skilled and it's an awkward fucker which I can very much identify with,

Tried mashing some samples together to do something pleasently ambient and it sounds like a fucking horror movie :D

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adam wrote:got a couple of rows of modular synth now:
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adam wrote:i've been selling modular synth pcb's for about the last year if anyones interested in synth-diy, various analogue, digital and hybrid arm chip controlling analogue circuit things, mostly smd designs, all open source, compatible with other gear that emits gate and cv
Hmmm.. interesting! Will PM
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adam wrote:got a couple of rows of modular synth now:
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i've been selling modular synth pcb's for about the last year if anyones interested in synth-diy, various analogue, digital and hybrid arm chip controlling analogue circuit things, mostly smd designs, all open source, compatible with other gear that emits gate and cv
Not personally, but I do know a couple of mates who might be. Got any more details?
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It's this chaps designs, which he's open sourced

http://mutable-instruments.net/

Here's me spiel:

Feel the thrill of building cutting-edge modules!
(as long you know what you're doing)
Enjoy only buying the pcb's you want, instead of more than you need!
Enjoy soldering on some tried and tested boards!


These premium boards are made at top of the line factories in the USA and Germany.

They're all tested by the factory, to ensure they're fully working.

Many modules successfully built so far.

This is what you can order right now:

Module Tester, price: £18 (available now)
build projects on the move or in small spaces with this power supply, test signal generator and frequency counter tailor made for designing and testing eurorack modules,
conveniently provides 12,-12 and 5v power to your projects as well as
cv, clock and audio test signals.
Protect your other modules by testing from a separate supply.
Allows you to calibrate vco's with it's built in frequency counter.
Suitable for beginners, uses through hole parts.
Pairs well with Breadboard Friends pcb's

pre-flashed atmega 644p chip, price: £8 (available now, only for sale with tester pcb)
the brains of the module tester, specially programmed atmega 644 chip, get up and running quickly without buying your own in system programmer.

edges, price: £17 (available now, stocks running low)
A chiptune extravaganza, easily make NES style bleeps and bloops, 4 oscillators of 8 bit mayhem.

elements, price: £17 (available now)
synthesize bagpipes to your hearts content along with many other sounds.

streams - price: £16, (available now, stocks running low)
west coast bongo's without the bleed, dsp controlled low pass gate, compressor and more, dsp code drives a pair of super-clean, ultra fast analogue vca's.
2 board design, main board and meter board.

Rings, price: £15 (available now)
strum, sing and do other physical modelling stuff (well, it's waveguide synthesis this one).
voltage controlled digital resonator, pairs well with elements.

Tides, price: £15 (available now)
the restful sound of the ocean in eurorack format, envelope/lfo/oscillator
can also be loaded with the alternate sheep firmware for wavetable baa's, amazing module, very popular.

Clouds, price: £15 (available now, stocks running low)
get your microsound on! also features granular reverb, nothing else quite like this in Eurorack, great favourite.

yarns, price: £15 (available now)
extravagant midi-cv interface and digital oscillator

frames,price: £15, (available now, stocks running low)
keyframing mixer - set up sets of levels on 4 super-clean vca's then use cv's and a big flashing knob to navigate through them, unique in Eurorack.

Braids, price: £15 (available now)
a squillion and one vco models in one handy module.

shelves, price: £15 (available now)
Sculpt your mix precisely, then animate it over time.
ideal for use as a filterbank. also includes separate LP, BP, HP filter outputs
3 band parametric eq with voltage control of many functions.
Uses 0.1% precision resistors allowing precise frequency settings.

Grids, price: £15 (available now)
Create amazing voltage controlled rhythms with ease, mucho drum patterns.

Warps, price: £14 (available now)
turns any vco into a complex oscillator, use the built in carrier wave or modulate 2 external signals together using your choice of 9 incredible, cv selectable, cross modulation algorithms (including a carefully modelled wavefolder). Add cv control of each channels level and you have a folding, ring and amplitude modulating beast.

peaks, price: £10 - (available now)
Amazing array of drums and lfo's and envelopes and stuff

ripples, price: £10 - (available now)
liquidy 100% analogue filter with built in vca, tracks 1v/octave

Breadboard Friends - price: £9 a set, (available now)
Concentrate on your creativity, build new designs quickly by pre building commonly used circuits
A set of 3 boards to allow easy connection of pots and jacks, and an audio out circuit

also available singly for £3 if you only want one


branches, price: £8 (available now)
random gate madness - add spice to your rhythms, this pcb was
apparently designed to be an introduction to smd soldering.
Turn one random gate generator into 3 with one of these!
or one clock into 2 smile

shades, price: £8 (available now)
mix and invert audio and cv with precision, 3 attenuverters with mixer.
Uses precision opamps for accurate cv processing

links - price: £6, (available now)
multiply pitch signals accurately, combine cv's.
buff mult using high spec op amp and 0.1% resistors, 2 input, 2 output
mixer, 3 into 1 mixer all in 4hp, super handy utility module
this version uses PJ-301-M-12 jacks instead of the harder to find originals

SMD learning kit - price: £3
a handy way to learn SMD soldering without damaging anything important, these sets are made in the far east, includes pcb and SMD parts.

spare streams meter board - price: £2
now available on it's own if you need another one.

shipping costs £1 for 100g for UK postage, or £3.70 Europe, £4.25 rest of world, except Oz/NZ which are £4.65

Most boards weigh about 50g with packaging, so i can often send 2 pcb's for those prices.
Smaller boards like ripples, peaks, branches, links and shades are even lighter.
I can send 4 of these boards for the lowest price.
Tracking, insurance etc is available too

Boms, ordering etc:

you can use this order form:

http://goo.gl/forms/tBMEfXNfB4

High quality metalphoto panels for some pcb's are now available from Synthcube, along with a selection of these pcb's.

http://synthcube.com/cart/index.php?rou ... ath=99_168

Accurate bom's can be generated using eagles bom.ulp function, you can also use "export bom" in the file menu to generate a csv file which can be loaded into a spreadsheet - then converted to excel format and uploaded to mouser.com or other suppliers to buy parts quickly

but check the version number on your pcb before doing this - Olivier updates his files periodically, the older eagle files that aren't on github can be found here:

https://github.com/hadesbox/eurorack-with-binaries

Olivier's github is here:

https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack/

some issues have been reported with the excel file bom's currently on this github, a few missing parts here and there, so may be best to generate your own bom.

all versions of pcb run the latest firmware.

These pcb's aren't made by Mutable instruments.
Technical support with building these designs is not available from Mutable instruments.
All designs have been rebranded in accordance with Olivier's wishes.

All boards have a beautiful gold/nickel plating, making them lovely to solder.

you can rest easy knowing that the employees that produce these boards are well treated, and the factories they're made in take environmental protection seriously.
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I'd been looking at FX pedals to send the synths and drums through but came across the Korg Kaoss Pads. I put a cheeky offer on a Mini 2 yesterday and got lucky. Should be fun
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So this thing. It looks like a toy physical mixing desk but it's just a generic MIDI controller. So I could map the knobs to arbitrary synth params in Fruityloops and twiddle whilst the sequence is playing back?

http://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and ... oller/1909

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looks like it, it can be a bit of a faff setting these things up so you might consider having a template file set up with various synths, controllers etc so you can get going quickly
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Cheers.

Just about to order when the gear4music site showed me the MiniNova. Now I'm frozen with indecision.
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my focusrite (novation) interface has stopped working properly since that big win 10 update
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venusian wrote:So this thing. It looks like a toy physical mixing desk but it's just a generic MIDI controller. So I could map the knobs to arbitrary synth params in Fruityloops and twiddle whilst the sequence is playing back?
I've got one. It maps automatically in Ableton (which is what I use it for), but you can remap it pretty easily using Akai's software.
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venusian wrote:Just about to order when the gear4music site showed me the MiniNova. Now I'm frozen with indecision.
Man up. Buy both.
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Which is of course exactly what I've just done. *sighs*
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venusian wrote:Which is of course exactly what I've just done. *sighs*
Good lad. Keep it up!
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W00p. MiniNOVA GET! No thanks to Hermes who've had it in their posession over a week. But It's here now and I'm sure to have a noodle tonight! Need to get something in the P L A N E T S comp ASAP. :D
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I so hate wires. It's why I could never have loads of modules...and, unless I'm missing something simple, midi over usb is bs. But I's sworn to wean off the iPad so instead of perhaps sensibly getting 2 or 3 boxes I went for the matching Nord Drum 2 synth and the BeatStep is it's controller.

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That's as far as I'm going. It's taken me 3 hours just to get a noise out of it, but that's largely to do with trying to keep the cables tidy. I'm not overly keen on Nord's UX, especially the Drum as it's pretty slim on knobbage and requires even more of the hold down shift and system and tap this while turning that and then press store when it flashes. I guess they assume that if you're going to play a keyboard then you can be expected to press more than 3 buttons at once. The BeatStep is even worse but at least it has colour coordinated lights so you don't get too lost.
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