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The last few days, I’m in the process of the development of a blog tool.

InLinkz is a linky tool that supports thumbnails. You add your blog to a form, pick a picture from your blog’s pics and voila! you have some lure for people to visit your site!

It is mainly used for challenges (e.g. make a card and link it here, read a book and link it here) but we can use it to link us up with each other’s blogs.

So, please insert your blog here! After all this is what Mr.Braska wants us to do! Meet each other!!!

To see how to enter a link, press the question mark icon beside the “Add your link” button

PS. if you are reading the rss, you will have to come to the main post to see the linky tool!

Eye candy!

Mr. Braska continues his tour at synth-nl’s studio! Me and Mr. Braska have the same colour! I am green with envy!

Feast your eyes upon the following photo stream!

Mr Braska, worked, supervising the module assembly

Then for a test he sat on it!

Small, in comparison!

Entangled, the sleeping beauty awaited for a beautiful princess to kiss him!! YEAH RIGHT!

So he woke alone!

And sat in the shadow of the Elektor Formant!

He cycled through the MFOS sequencer!

And looked upon the Paia.

He became a little Moogerfoolish!

But then…..

he found his place!!!!

And still, Michel from synthnl has MORE GEAR!!!

and appart from his blog he has a main site too

Braska.Mr at Synth.NL 2.Part

Here is part two of the studio tour Michel is giving for Mr. Braska. Here you can see him studying the Bridechamber multiple panel Michel built last week.

And here is mr. Braska presenting the Yusynth Steiner VCF module Michel build. He seemed to like especially this one a lot.

In fact he liked it so much that he wanted to sit on top of it “Ah well who am I to say no to that.” was Michel’s reaction. Yet another host of Mr. Braska, lucky enough to have frog’s butt hair on his modules!!

And here is mr. Braska in front of the four Yusynth filter modules. Michel will let Mr. Braska unveil a little bit more of his modular setup next time.

PS. Michel builds A LOT of stuff. Check it out almost real-time at http://synthnl.blogspot.com/

braska.mr at synth.nl

Here is mr. Braska approving the drum module Michel built from the Thomas Henry Electronics Drums Cookbook on Breadboard.

Then he was shown the insides of the AVRSynth 32 from Elby Designs that Michel built together with his daughter. Mr. Braska was holding some wires for Michele here while Michel run some more tests on it.

Then they played some music on the AVRSynth 32. As you can see mr. Braska was clearly enjoying it and relaxing by it.

After that they played around with the Velleman PC oscilloscope and Function Generator that Michel recently built. Mr. Braska liked this very much.

After this first little tour Michel resumed work on his project while Mr. Braska watched him and did some little naps when it was becoming boring. !

Mr. Braska on the Moon!

Mr. Braska arrived safely to Michel’s Apollo Studio. I am sure he will have a lot of stuff to see there as Michel is very active at synth building!!!

Check out his blog http://synthnl.blogspot.com. There is photographic evidence that frogs were on the moon before “mankind”. (But probably at the same time with Muppet show’s “Pigs in space” (and Mrs Piggy going after Kermit!))

Edit: Photographic evidence is here too courtesy of Michel!

Merry christmas and a froggy new year!

Wishes for a frrrrrogy 2010 and lots of peeking to other people’s gear!

“Peace and happiness all over the world!”
(this was taken from the pageant years of Mr. Braska)

While waiting….

While waiting for Mr. Braska to arrive to Michel at synth.nl, and while feeling pitty for the little frog having Christmas in a cold and dark envelope, I made some stuff to drown my despair.

The DINx1 and DOUTx1 are components of the midibox SID that I want to build. I want to use all the keys the laughtop provides so I followed the scan matrix approach.

Schematics for the modules are here (DINx1) and here (DOUTx1)

And the built modules are here:

The build quality is as usual crappy to say the least. I just discovered that the DOUT module gets a bit hot when plugged so I need to test what is wrong (again).

This distracts me from Mr. Braska being partially lost in the post. snif

Chill out, Mr. Braska

Mr. Braska was invited by Matthias and his lovely wife for candle-light dinner!

Matthias confessed that he was surprised to see Mr. Braska have both his legs after his trip to France and Mr. Usson. After all, French have a thing for frog-legs.

Mr. Braska was surprised himself, seeing that dinner didn’t consist of pork and sausages!!!

Then there was the time for the frog-test.. A woman’s kiss could transform Mr. Braska to a handsome prince. But the test failed! Mr. Braska, stated that the fact the test failed was because Mrs. Fonik had spent all her magic to turn Matthias into a human. Of course he couldn’t admit that he wasn’t really a prince deep inside.

(thank god for the rest of us because we would have to pay first class airplane tickets to get him back if he ever transformed to a human prince!!!)

There is the family photo. Mr and Mrs Fonik and the “prince”!

Mr. Braska wanted to check some more gear and there he is!

on the Klee sequencer!

In-between modules

Again on top of the Klee

And he checked other (more digital) gear by the way!

Doepfer modules of course were present too!

Then both Fonik and Mr. Braska, got down and did some patching.

And, to seal their friendship, they got a picture together!!

Thank you so much Matthias for the wonderful tour !!!!

Now, OFF TO NETHERLANDS!!!!

Fonik's Synth-DIY lab

Mr. Braska arrived safely at fonik’s to receive a warm welcome and an immediate tour of the laboratory!

Mr. Braska forgot he was packed tightly in an envelope for some days as soon as Fonik put him to listen to some ambient music

Then, after soothing time, Mr. Braska started climbing on the modular just left of Fonik’s desk.

He is sitting almost inside a eurorack row that Fonik is currently filling, and he is sitting right besides the prototype for a professional manufacturer pre-built version of Fonik’s attenuverting mixer. Fonik will be probably publishing it somewhere in 2010.

And there, he posed:

After those publicity shots, Mr Braska got his froggy hands on a divider that Fonik was testing at the time.

So, after Fonik explained to Mr. Braska the inner workings of the divider, they opened together a fresh batch of the ADC controlled sequencer prototype PCBs.

And then, Fonik got Mr. Braska A PRESENT!!!!!!

Rejoice little frog! you can open your own mail from now on!

Mr. Braska got overly excited with his gift (a razor-sharp swiss army knife) that he almost got a pcb surface scratched. When he calmed down from the surprize, he helped Fonik open another PCB batch! Lets see..

And here he is posing with his new present on top of Fonik’s expansion board for thomas white’s LPG!. If you buy this PCB from Fonik, you will have the privilege to own some of Mr. Braska’s butt-hair with it! So rush now!

And there is a photo of Fonik’s lab (do I spot an OLD oscilloscope under the desk?). Here, Mr. Braska is learning the ins and outs of breadboarding!

Mr. Braska, sitting on the neatly-boxed soundlab oversees a sea of pcbs. I spot the ubiquitous midibox at the lower part of the photo!

And here, a closer look at the SoundLab. He has changed the frequency pots to more precise ones from what I can see…

We might get a look at his “behind” (ass), but Mr. Braska is getting a look at the inner workings of a hardware incarnation of the VSTfx “breakdown filter”. the audio steps through eight (8!) state variable VCFs.

Here, the divider that Mr. Braska saw on the first pictures, is being put to the test!

And there is always a dedicated drill lying around somewhere in the lab.. Let’s get some photos with it too!

Well, that was one helluva tour! Now Mr. Braska, happy with his life is going to get a good night’s sleep.

He is going to dream about …. THE MODULAR!

Quick travel status update

Mr. Braska has arrived at Fonik’s.!!

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