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junk box synth (side)

3 oscillator "synth". One LM556 (salvaged from a rodent deterrent noise maker) provides 2 osc and one LM555 provides the third.

two are running in astable operation and with different ranges of frequencies. the third is running as "pulse position modulator" which i'm really not able to describe right but is in the LM555 datasheet.

each oscillator is adjusted with the potentiometers.

 

patchbay made from cut up pieces of a coat hanger, bent and patched with alligator clips.

each oscillator has one patch for output, one for CV in and one for "trigger/threshold". So each osc can be used to modulate the others or you can just run them all together into the output.

 

incorporated ideas from sqarewave parade's Blast Fed Disaster (basically an atari punk console with mods), and the horrible insect synth (on this page www.notbreathing.com/noise.html)

here's an crumby, unnecessarily long clip of it, i'm still getting the hang of it, so this doesn't show everything: drop.io/4kbwfik

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Uploaded on June 18, 2009
Taken on June 18, 2009