Amiga right-click-mouse-mod

A mod taken from the mssiah forum to enable right-click on an Amiga mouse.

Solder a 22k resistor between pins 7+9.

Job done!

Gameboy Mods

My latest modded LSDJ GBC - with the following 3 mods:

1 - 3.5mm stereo prosound line out.

Previously I've put in shielded cables that have dangled out of the GB to a 1/4 jack out, but no matter how careful I've been with them, the cable has always broken so the internal jack is a much better solution. I had to bend two capacitors out the way to make room for it.

2- Brand new screen from DJTRANSFORMER

Yeah, no more scratches!

3- DPDT toggle to switch between original crystal clock and 1 octave lower clock.

I bought a good quality switch that is able to flick between clocks whilst LSDJ is running without crashing. When used with LSDJMC2 to externally clock the tempo the lower octave clock affects the pitch only, which is very handy!

Things I might add

LTC1799 circuit for variable pitch. I think there's just enough room to cram it in...

Backlighting - necessary for live performances.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas fellow lo-fi-synth-freaks...

Here Comes Santa Claus by Neal Beard & his Machines

Automated Mould

This track didn't really fit in with the forthcoming Drone/Noise EP, so here it is...

Automated Mould

(If you're interested it was made with a matrix mixer, some guitar pedals, a piezo sound driver sending sound through a high hat, a circuit bent speak and maths, some home made filters and feedback loops. The speak and maths was the only sound input.)

Drone Noise Soundscapes

Recently Neal Beard and his Machines have experimenting with drone/noise sounds-capes largely inspired by the early tapes of the brilliant band Emeralds.

Here are a couple of experiments created using free running A100 oscs being modulated FM by random LSDJ sequences and guitar. The first example is more melodic, the second more fractured and noisy.

Experiment 1.47

Example 3.67

The ideas explored in these sessions are gradually evolving into two new EP's of improvised compositions which should be available for download soon...

Bleepotron

Another machine joins the merry throng.

The Bleepotron is a MIDI synth kit that uses a dsPIC digital signal processor. It's a very easy build and has a great lo-fi sound. It's even possible to edit patches and save on it!

I housed mine in an old vid box.

I ran through all it's presets sounds here.

(sorry about the crap loop)

More info about it below...

Bleep-o-tron has the following features:

• monophonic

• 2 x oscillators (timbres)

• 8 x phase-modulation waveforms + combinations (36 in total)

• white noise

• 6 x ADSR (attack-decay-sustain-release) envelopes

• 6 x LFO’s (low-frequency oscillators)

• 6 x LFO waveforms (sine, square, triangle, rising sawtooth, falling sawtooth, noise)

• detuned second oscillator by octaves, semitones or cents

• connects to standard MIDI keyboard (velocity sensitive)

• keyboard transpose (up to +/– 2 octaves)

• keyboard split

• play notes using PS/2 PC keyboard

• pitch bend and modulation using PS/2 PC mouse

• ring modulator

• oscillator synch

• flanger (swept comb filter)

• portamento (constant rate and constant time)

• selectable MIDI channel #1 to #16

• 16 x preset patches

• 8 x user patches (non-volatile)

• master volume control + gain x 2

SD2iec

The SD2iec board is a quick and easy way to save and load Mssiah projects.

I bought mine and the accompanying the daughter board from nk electronics.

It's cheap, simple, and works great. Just make sure you change the default device in Mssiah from 8 to 11. (that foxed me for days!)

I am using a power adapter to run it, but I think it is possible to take 5v from the datasette port instead.

Also in retrospect I wish I'd used a small ribbon cable to connect the two boards, rather than placing them on top of one another, as this would have made it a less awkward shape to house, but I was desperate to get it working as soon as possible...