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AVRSynth 16 Panel

aris — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:24:00 +0000

The AVRSynth has officially its panel. Drilled on a 3mm aluminum sheet sized at 27×21cm (almost an A4). It was a little difficult to correctly align the holes when drilling them because the drill bit had a tendency to drift off and walk away. The result was a random offset of each hole at about 1mm (in random directions that is.).

Nevertheless, a panel I had made earlier was printed on photographic paper. To align these two, I punched small holes at the centers of the knob positions and turned it facing down (the paper) so I could see through the aluminum holes that it was all aligned (or at least there were no big offsets). I glued it with simple roll on glue and transfered the buttons and knobs from the cardboard panel they were on, to the aluminum one. Now it is a little mess underneath the panel but nevertheless everything works as planed.

I passed it’s output through MC-909 effects and it sounds wonderful. Even raw, it sounds pretty nice. I might make a demo with sounds coming out of the AVRSynth 16.

The svg file for the panel layout is here

Stay tuned for updates on the AVRSynth 32 + midibox project.

A family photo (extra members not shown

babyBotte repackaged!

aris — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:49:00 +0000

This is the new babyBotte. I decided against the cardboard shoebox and dumped it. So I got a TRIPP container set from IKEA at first for putting the babybotte on the small square one and an 8MHz avrSynth I have lying around, inside the bigger one. My wife gave the idea of putting the babyBotte inside the round one.. So, I designed a panel that I would print on photographic paper and stick it on top of the lid and open holes to it to insert the pots

The small holes are for the square buttons. I used a high speed cutter to make the rectangle cuts.

Also, because the box was a bit high to grip it easily, I marked it at about the middle and cut it with tin scissors (the TRIPPs are made of a rather thin aluminum sheet)

and then I cut the rectangle holes:

To align the holes with the printed layout, I printed a draft, black and white copy of the layout and stuck it on the lid. Then, using that as a guide, I opened small holes which little by little I opened them to the diameter of the pot shafts (10mm in my case).

The layout of the buttons and the panel “design” is available at the file repository (here) .

Then I opened small holes on the printed paper and alligned the holes while letting the glue set.

Using an exacto knife, I opened the holes on the paper

and put pots and switches:

The (still) tricky part was to mount the led. I fixed it with hot glue. It is a bit flimsy but I do not intent to take the babyBote v2 to any live gigs.

So the finished bb was something like that:

or like that

The samples still remain the same as the bb survived the move.

The only thing that remains to be seen is the durability of the photopaper..

Small tune with samples from babyBotte shoeBox fraktalSynth

aris — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:58:00 +0000

I sampled two fraktalSynth sounds and added drums, bass, percussion, some riffs and TADAAAA!

It contains some mistakes because I was mixing it live on the MC 909 (which by the way have to get some synth porn pictures of it)

Here! Criticism accepted (Because I moderate the comments

Edit:

google sites apparently has limited bandwidth so I made an account on rapidshare. If you stumble to any problems please drop me a note!

so, go here: http://rapidshare.com/users/O5MTP0