Muff's Modules & More

wetterberg · Last edited by wetterberg on Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

yay, just finished first partial build of the year... that took long enough!

CGS Master Divider. Yes, panelling this will be fun, since it HAS NO KNOBS! hehe.

Anyway, board is populated, there's some errors in the CGS B.O.M. which I had missed, luckily I could grab the parts from another kit, which is no incomplete :saad panda:

2 inputs, 16 outputs - 16 leds.
that's 34 spots to arrange, and the plan is to mult some of this out in the panel, along with AND-gates and OR-gates... Off to front panel designer! ... in the morning.

Pics tomorrow - then you can slander my soldering haxx0rz skillz.

DGTom · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:12 am Post subject:

Look forward to the pics / cheat notes hihi

This is one I really want to build *at some stage* but not even going to attempt it until I build up my skills.

Its a blikenlightz machine tho! Are you going to do all 16 LEDs? I was thinking it would be doable with 4, one for each major division, 16 chasing one another would look pretty neat but!

wetterberg · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject:

wetterberg · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:53 pm Post subject:

Master Divider and two Dual LFOs, all within 24 hours... hehe I'm on faiahhh!
meh

DGTom · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject:

YGG!

Looking good!

wetterberg · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject:

this is how anal I was; I spent like 5 minutes trying to correct the position of the transistors... how moronic am I - that doesn't matter wink

Oh, and yes, I usually make sure the resistors in longer arrays are oriented the same way... that's what's up.

Luka · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject:

have fun wiring em all up hihi

ive spent so much time making connector cables over the last few weeks
after awhile it makes me go like this nuts

wetterberg · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject:

I've got a fabulous set of tools and crimp thingies on order - it'll be fine wink

Andreas (gets back to stuffing a Tube VCA)

wetterberg · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject:

shit, I fucking need to stop now.

Muff Wiggler · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:59 am Post subject:

wetterberg · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:27 am Post subject:

@muff

@Fonik: good call, man. Keep telling yourself that wink

alright, next up:

4 Vactrol boards
Steiner Parker filter, fully loaded
and the most daunting:
Fully loaded CGS VCO... gulp.

Blank panels on order, a lot of illustrator fiddling to start now.

Luka · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:50 am Post subject:

the vco isnt too hard
the only pcb ive not got working thus far has been the cgs steiner filter :(

Dego · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:50 am Post subject:

Sometimes I forget about time and just keep soldering because it so fun.

Good work. I also put my resistors the same way for the same reason fonik does it...

Must order some more cgs boards soon... very frustrating

wetterberg · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:03 am Post subject:

Luka · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:08 am Post subject:

wish i knew
its hacked now
no point contuning.
one thing about the cgs boards is they dont really like desoldering too much

wetterberg · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:27 am Post subject:

good to know, thanks Luka. I've tried to do fast soldering with a smallish amount of solder, and not glob it on like I used to when circuitbending back in the day d'oh!

- this also means that - theoretically - I should have a larger window of soldering before I break shit for good.

wetterberg · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:04 am Post subject:

Still some parts missing from one Master Divider and the VCO - nothing critical though, hope to find the missing parts in my parts bin tomorrow.

from left to right:

1* Steiner Parker Synthacon filter
2* Dual Utility LFOs
2* Master Divider
1* Tube VCA/distortion
1* VCO
Above:
4*Variable resistor-thingies from Bridechamber.

Next up; testing and callibration

zthee · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:26 am Post subject:

Nice job!

wetterberg · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:14 am Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject:

just a recomendation for the utility LFO: add a switch for changing the range!

wetterberg · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject:

Reese P. Dubin · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject:

Just DO the LFO range mod.

It is EASY

It is ESSENTIAL

panda30y · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject:

Nice mod recommendation Fonik, I'l have to keep that in mind if I come around to building one. Also very nice work wetterberg, it looks purt with all those resistors!

wetterberg · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:26 am Post subject:

zthee · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:30 am Post subject:

The pictures above got me going yesterday!
So I had to build an ASR and a VCO last night! grin

Thanks for the inspiration! Mr. Green

fonik · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject:

wetterberg · Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:10 pm Post subject:

Leisure Cove · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject:

Looks good, Wetterberg!

Can you post photos of the wiring, when you get around to that stage of things? I'm a bit of a rookie, and the lack of wiring descriptions has been keeping me away from the CGS stuff-- I'm interested to see what gets connected to what. Thanks!!

wetterberg · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject:

I'll do that, mate.
yeah, to be honest the weirdest thing about the VCO, for instance, is that there's NO description of the most basic of things: The feature set! There's no "a knob for shape, an output for sub-oscillator" - it's all wrapped up in technical descriptions of HOW the features are achieved.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that Ken Stone is concerned with new and exciting things, I just wish there was a fan-site laying out these things...

Leisure Cove · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:51 pm Post subject:

wetterberg · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

shit, I'll probably wind up doing it myself d'oh!

Leisure Cove · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject:

How did the wiring go? Also, what was off on the BOM for the Master Divider?

I've picked up a Pulse Divider and a Master Divider from CGS in the time between this thread going silent and now and am curious. Thanks!!

Guinness ftw!

wetterberg · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject:

still resting, waiting for panels and their custom case... I've got a box of like 10 modules, all populated and ready for mounting.

What was off? Apparently I had ordered pcbs while it was in one revisions, then ordered parts after the switch to the next revision or vice versa, so I was missing some decoupling caps... no biggie, especially since I'm nowhere near mounting the whole thing... hehe

Guinness ftw!

Got my jacks now, all 200 of them, and the power wire ANd the strip board materials (I'll blog all those assemblies, I think) so I'm really just waiting to get some finances for my aluminium (1 meter rails and panels).

Muff Wiggler · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject:

Kwote · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:34 am Post subject:

yes. the pics get me hard. we need more DIY pron stat!

The Chewbacca Defense

also makes me perk up on my inactivity. saving the surplus of motivation for when my wallet's back in action.

wetterberg · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:45 am Post subject:

cheers people! smile

Makes me smile and even more motivated to get my paneling on!