This is my first instrument designed and built from scratch. Well, the design isn’t particularly original, but it was fun to build, and came out pretty cool.
It’s a basic square wave generator, composed of two 555 LFOs, one feeding the other. YUM!
Similar to the Atari Punk.
The two knobs up top control the rate and pitch. The switches and knobs below create a crude keyboard. One cool feature is that different combinations of buttons add up to higher pitches. Lots of fun to play.
Here it is jamming with a yamaha dd-5 circuit bent drum machine:
I’ve got some glitches to work out, and I am going to try to build a sequencer like this one:
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:02 am
Great Site, love the blog