2024: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2024)

[WatchTheGuitar]

The used Cobalt 8X I bought turned out to be the standard 37 key version, which explains why it was going for £300, but think I’ll keep it anyway as it turns out to be “can be used on the couch” sized.

Which gave me an excuse to buy the Argon 8X I just ordered.

[Shabdahbriah]

Anyone tried the Zlosynth Kaseta? Im thinking of picking one up, as a (Cosmos-ish) long tape delay (up to 5 mins it seems), but also because it seems like its a fairly nice euro panel frontend for the Daisy, a lot more controls than the patch.Init() has.

Ooooh... THIS!!! Love the hands-on/dial-it-in nature of this. And the price is more than reasonable, even assembled. Really well laid-out. Thanks for the heads-up.



Features:

4 Delay Lines with individual volume, feedback, and pan parameters
Great sounding Pre-Amp
Warm tape saturation (Jiles-Atherton model)
Wow and Flutter
Up to 5 minutes of audio recording in 24-bit, 48 kHz
Low-High Pass-Filter combination (Tone)
Speed adjusts overall Delay Time
Stereo output
Internal oscillator
Hackable Daisy Patch Submodule

https://zlosynth.com/kaseta-user-manual.pdf

[elxsound]

Audio Parasite panels dropped yesterday!

Panels: STO, Echophon, Pam Pro, Contour, Dynamix, Maths and ModDemix.
-The MN ones are a different texture, more matte and less reflective.
-The gold/white is swapped especially on Echophon and then… there’s no b&g counterpart for Contour or Dynamix (beyond 0-Coast).
-Love that I can keep the same theme throughout. It makes it easier to navigate for me.

New modules added: DXG, Contour, Erbe-Verb, Ch.Svr, Rene v2, Pam Pro, and Tymp Legio.
-Still need to learn more about configuring/saving Rene v2, but I am really liking this setup as I can turn it on and just play without hooking up other gear (unless I want to record).

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[justin3am]

Audio Parasite panels dropped yesterday!

Beautifu!

[justin3am]

Anyone tried the Zlosynth Kaseta? Im thinking of picking one up, as a (Cosmos-ish) long tape delay (up to 5 mins it seems), but also because it seems like its a fairly nice euro panel frontend for the Daisy, a lot more controls than the patch.Init() has.

Woah, I hadn't hear of this. I'll have to check it out.

[Shabdahbriah]

Audio Parasite panels dropped yesterday!

Nice!

[Constructed Identity]

Arrived today:

A little intimidated by how much I'm going to have to put together. Like my circuit board holder... can't start tonight, I only have 1.6mm solder wire. Ordered 0.5mm yesterday. Hopefully that will work well and I will be able to solder as well as I did a few years ago when I did it at the job I had at the time.

[Shabdahbriah]

Stylophone DS2 anticipated release in September

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Old video:

[Shabdahbriah]

In the interim I may have pick-up one of these DIY eurorack Wind Machines.

[vurt]

Stylophone DS2 anticipated release in September




Stylophone DS-2.png

Old video:

im still waiting on the june release of the theremin
on the mailing list, last message was theyre nearly ready!!!
few weeks back.

[whyterabbyt]

Kaseta kit came in from Thonk yesterday, delivered about 11. My fastest turnaround on a module ever - started it at 2ish, it was tested and in a case by 4.30... Even with minimal input (a few bangs and scrapes via a Mikrophonie) it became very obvious very quickly that this is absolutely what I hoped it would be, a lovely, very interactive, feedback drone beast.

[Shabdahbriah]

Kaseta kit came in from Thonk yesterday, delivered about 11. My fastest turnaround on a module ever - started it at 2ish, it was tested and in a case by 4.30... Even with minimal input (a few bangs and scrapes via a Mikrophonie) it became very obvious very quickly that this is absolutely what I hoped it would be, a lovely, very interactive, feedback drone beast.

I'm really struggling to not succumb to my basic gut belief that one can not have "too many" delays! (or reverbs) The "interactive" aspect of the Kaseta really intrigues/appeals to me. that said:

More Make Noise Bruxa

[vurt]

Kaseta kit came in from Thonk yesterday, delivered about 11. My fastest turnaround on a module ever - started it at 2ish, it was tested and in a case by 4.30... Even with minimal input (a few bangs and scrapes via a Mikrophonie) it became very obvious very quickly that this is absolutely what I hoped it would be, a lovely, very interactive, feedback drone beast.

nice!
sounds like a fun module.

[mjolnir]

I must say, modular does seem to always be promising!

I can't afford anything pro, but I might dabble with some electronics kits for the cheap filters! (RC circuits, etc).
Even some of the junk at the toystore could be nice if circuit bent and sampled. I'm not sure where to start, though.

[whyterabbyt]

I must say, modular does seem to always be promising!

I can't afford anything pro, but I might dabble with some electronics kits for the cheap filters! (RC circuits, etc).
Even some of the junk at the toystore could be nice if circuit bent and sampled. I'm not sure where to start, though.

You could always have a dig through the DIY forum

viewforum.php?f=180

and if you're primarily interested in circuit bending, there's a long old-but-still-valid thread at

viewtopic.php?t=147731

For circuit bending, its easiest to start with early (70s-80s) digital toys; the kind of thing with a few ICs and memory data on a chip separated from the control chip. Messing with access to that data was the classic bend. That's why things like Speak and Spells(*) and the like were so popular.

I wont repeat what's already in that thread, but do remember the primary rule is no mains power, run off battery only.

In terms of electronics kits, a good place to start, IMO, would be to look for kits for the classic Atari Punk Console. Rakit(**) in the UK do a rather natty looking one (that Ive not tried), but you'll probably find tons on Etsy and the like.

Soldering isnt hard, but do practice beforehand and get comfortable with it. Have good clear light, and magnification if you need it. And try and make sure you use a fan or some sort of mask, as the fumes are not good for you at all. At the very least, only ever breathe out when soldering a joint or there's still smoke visible.

(* FWIW, there seems to be a new version of the classic Speak that's been available for a couple of years, but its 'faked' based on a microprocessor processing audio samples, so rather different circuit and method. Caveat emptor, as I suspect it may not be bendable)

(** The Rakit kit looks like there's no socket for the IC, ie you solder the IC on directly, but I'd suggest that you always use a socket for ICs, less risk of overheating damage to the chip)