Tuesday 16 June 2015

Midi Widget gating a Eurorack Test No 2

After the success of my breadboard I made up a stripboard for the Midi Widget to provide 8x Eurorack gates. I  thought a stripboard design would cut down on flying wires in the build, and make less work for me!

There's a film of it in action here, and photos below. The film only uses 6 gates as I didn't make up a ribbon cable with enough lines...

Having all these gates to play with in the modular environment is gonna be so much fun!



The jack sockets will attach the stripboard to my enclosure face, in a similar way to a eurorack module.


Rear of stripboard shows where I cut traces.

Daw–to–Midiwidget–to–Eurorack

What next..?

Well, ultimately I'm thinking of using the Midi Widget not only provide gates for my Eurorack, but also remote switch some of my circuit bent instruments. I've already breadboard tested the widget controlling  circuit bent stuff using reed relays,  so my next stage will be to work out a strip board design for this... cool!

Wednesday 3 June 2015

Midi Widget gating TipTop audio modules



My midiwidget from Highly Liquid arrived... so I quickly set up a breadboard test with it gating some eurorack modules!

Three gates out with LED indicators and a permanently on LED to show 5v power supply.

The 5v gate out voltages go through 1v resistors and then on to 3 modules; TipTop 808 Kick, Snare and Rim.

Video recorded on iPhone, audio through Mackie vlz mixer with no fx into Logic. Video and audio were then visually synced.

I have to say, I love this thing already– still working out how best to design my build, as I want to use some gates for eurorack, and some to switch circuitbent machines using reed relays. I might post some more as that progresses...

But in essence this device rocks, thank you highly liquid!

Monday 1 June 2015

New circuit bent beard music on Soundcloud



Gear Used...

Bent gear: Casio sa5 and Roland tr505.

Analog gear: doepfer eurorack modular system and an mfb522.

Other gear: Ehx holy grail, memory man, v256 and an oboe.

Recorded Portsmouth 2015.

Thanks for listening... :)