Let's see your KEYS/SYNTHS!

[fcknoise]

I feel you


Shit, at the rate I'm going soon I'll be playing more synth than guitar


My current mantra is *avoid the modular wormhole at all costs*

I feel you. Luckily, I'm way to broke to get into that right now anyway. If I however traded my gibson for a starting rack...

[chrisdermo]

Helloooo, newbie here. Thought i'd kick off with a gear pic post.
So i've kinda downsized my synths in favour of more fx pedals lately, but here's most of what's left:

Pic 1:
Bugbrand Boarweevil 2012, Boardweevi15, Travel Weevil, Audioweevil08 (I like these things )
Meng Qi Mr Grassi
Casper Electronics Drone Lab
Ciat Lonbarde Tetrax
Circuit bent Casio SK-8
couple of delptronics bender sequencers, couple of buddha machines, monotron duo

Pic 2:
X0XB0X
Nord drum 2 (pads out of sight)
Korg Volca Keys
Korg mini KP2
Bastl Microgranny V2
Roland SP404 sampler
Arturia Beastep to sequence it all! (old casio midi splitter out of sight)
Zoom R16 8 track recorder at the top.

[PeteeBee]

That looks so extemely fun!

[space6oy]

Meng Qi Mr Grassi
Casper Electronics Drone Lab
Ciat Lonbarde Tetrax

talk about these please.
nice to see another x0xb0x owner.
you assemble yours?

[D.o.S.]

I feel you


Shit, at the rate I'm going soon I'll be playing more synth than guitar


My current mantra is *avoid the modular wormhole at all costs*

I feel you. Luckily, I'm way to broke to get into that right now anyway. If I however traded my gibson for a starting rack...

Yeah good luck with that dudes.

[Forrrest]

at 500$ the minilogue is a no brainer for anyone wanting a poly analog this year!

[chrisdermo]

Meng Qi Mr Grassi
Casper Electronics Drone Lab
Ciat Lonbarde Tetrax

talk about these please.
nice to see another x0xb0x owner.
you assemble yours?

So the Mr grassi is one of Peter B's (ciat Lonbarde creator) 'paper circuits' from his site, made into a pcb and built by meng qi. It's a touch control chaos synth going from filthy bass tones to Superfast atonal arpeggios to bursts of noise....... The good thing is for all of its chaos it actually will do the same thing twice . Oh yeah it's two channel as well, with left and right being vastly different sounds, although somehow related enough to work as a massively stereo spread sound design tool! I love it, cheap as chips too.

The tetrax is similarly stereo but it comes out the right channel as you push down and left as you release on the barres. Each barre is its own osillator tunable by its sliders across two waveforms, two of the knobs are overall pitch for each wave shape and the other two are some sort of modulation chaos amount!
The patch points are for osc output, frequency modulation input, glitch in/out, cv's for press and release of barres, and cv control of knobs. Anything can patch to anything.
This thing can do insane bending pitch modulated rhythms (my favourite) all the way to crazy noise bursts like ive never heard in anything else. Recalling anything on this synth is pretty much impossible so recording everything of worth is a must!

The drone lab I built myself from a Casper kit years ago, 4 squarewave oscillators that can be amplitude modulated against a clock that emits a pulse wave, you can set the up and down portions of the pulse with the division knobs and invert that with a switch, so it's like they tremolo in sync with each other. The filter on this thing is gnarly as hell, and can get quite formant-y.
Favourite thing to do is set up a mega low pitch bass rhythm and put through copilotfx molecule for crazy rhythmic filter madness! Using the fine tune pitch knobs on each oscillator can make the rhythms bend around nicely!

I'll try do some demos soon and post here.

[modernage]

at 500$ the minilogue is a no brainer for anyone wanting a poly analog this year!

No kidding! That built in oscilloscope is so cool as well. I think I might have to pick one up at some point. Need to figure out a stand solution for the keyboards I already have before I start adding more to the mix though.

I feel you


Shit, at the rate I'm going soon I'll be playing more synth than guitar


My current mantra is *avoid the modular wormhole at all costs*

I feel you. Luckily, I'm way to broke to get into that right now anyway. If I however traded my gibson for a starting rack...

Yeah good luck with that dudes.

Exactly my thought.

[spawnofthesith]

Welp I couldn't help myself, ordered the Minilogue

[space6oy]

Meng Qi Mr Grassi
Casper Electronics Drone Lab
Ciat Lonbarde Tetrax

talk about these please.
nice to see another x0xb0x owner.
you assemble yours?

So the Mr grassi is one of Peter B's (ciat Lonbarde creator) 'paper circuits' from his site, made into a pcb and built by meng qi. It's a touch control chaos synth going from filthy bass tones to Superfast atonal arpeggios to bursts of noise....... The good thing is for all of its chaos it actually will do the same thing twice . Oh yeah it's two channel as well, with left and right being vastly different sounds, although somehow related enough to work as a massively stereo spread sound design tool! I love it, cheap as chips too.

The tetrax is similarly stereo but it comes out the right channel as you push down and left as you release on the barres. Each barre is its own osillator tunable by its sliders across two waveforms, two of the knobs are overall pitch for each wave shape and the other two are some sort of modulation chaos amount!
The patch points are for osc output, frequency modulation input, glitch in/out, cv's for press and release of barres, and cv control of knobs. Anything can patch to anything.
This thing can do insane bending pitch modulated rhythms (my favourite) all the way to crazy noise bursts like ive never heard in anything else. Recalling anything on this synth is pretty much impossible so recording everything of worth is a must!

The drone lab I built myself from a Casper kit years ago, 4 squarewave oscillators that can be amplitude modulated against a clock that emits a pulse wave, you can set the up and down portions of the pulse with the division knobs and invert that with a switch, so it's like they tremolo in sync with each other. The filter on this thing is gnarly as hell, and can get quite formant-y.
Favourite thing to do is set up a mega low pitch bass rhythm and put through copilotfx molecule for crazy rhythmic filter madness! Using the fine tune pitch knobs on each oscillator can make the rhythms bend around nicely!

I'll try do some demos soon and post here.

link please - can't find mr. grassi

[oscillateur]

Probably that :
http://ciat-lonbarde.net/paper/

[chrisdermo]

Yeah it's the second one on that list, old mr grassi

youtube vid from meng qi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh9egbeLe2I

vid from someone who built from a kit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt_IyQgZq7k

someone's home made paper circuit version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJJ1yl-pQZ4

I don't think meng qi makes them any more, he moved on to make ciat lonbarde inspired modular bits and bobs and other massive crazy instruments like this vaguely guitar shaped playable patch bay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWp00wkpfI

[chrisdermo]

oh btw, the demos by Peter himself on the link oscillateur posted are a must....

[Forrrest]

you will be mine!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFndmSO7OFo[/youtube]

[spawnofthesith]

This thing is awesome