If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen photos and heard audio clips documenting my pet project of the last few weeks, an 8-step sequencer and voltage controlled oscillator based on projects from the book Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins (Routledge ISBN: 978-0-415-99873-4).
The following video shows the first run of the finished instrument. It features voltage/frequency controls for each step, tempo control, oscillator minimum/maximum frequency controls, and hold/mute/restart buttons.
Click here to watch this video on YouTube
A more focused edit of the performance:
Photos from various stages of the build:
Building the counter (bottom) and clock oscillator (top).
Adding the basic VCO circuit.
First test of the circuit.
The finished circuit.
Laying out the controls.
Hooking up the controls.
Testing the finished control panel.
The finished sequencer / oscillator.
Audio clips recorded during testing:
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Tony Wallace, NerdSonic. NerdSonic said: New Post: 8-Step Sequencer & Voltage Controlled Oscillator http://bit.ly/80Zf1g #fb [...]
VERY cool. I am going to post this on my site.
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