New Crumar Performer

It’s not often that a brand new synth appears in the stock of a music store. Especially when it was released in 1979 and somehow has been lost in the warehouse for nearly 32 years. But that is indeed what…

MeeBlip 1.27 Case

My DIY MeeBlip has been in need of a case for a while. Taking direct inspiration from the DJ TechTools Midi Fighter I’ve drawn up plans for a simple kit.

Built a Meeblip

So yesterday my multiple Meeblip boards arrived. So I had to build one then and there to test out. I quickly put a timelapse video together of the build just in case your interested.

So far in testing this…

Damn Fine looking controls

Sometimes I scour ebay for little gems amongst the old test equipment. Often just for design inspiration as much as salvage. They all have cool and interesting names, like “the Wavetek Model 180 Sweep Function Generator” or “MW910A Optical Time…

Give MeeBlip

If you haven’t already heard or seen this really awesome bit of open-source hardware then, get to know it. MeeBlip will be forming the basis of one of the prototypes I’m building and it’s going to be a…

Custom built Old-school sexy

This guy Mario Jurisch has to be one of my heros. He’s make some awesome looking hardware. His latest piece is double Doepfer based synth with a juicy big patch bay. We like patch bays. This has…

Important parts arrive from LBE

The parts for the first controller prototype are amassing at a gathering speed. Still missing a few inputs and odds’n'sods but soon I’ll be able to finish my measurements, prototype up the individual control modules and then finish the case…

Waves hello

And so it begins. Well actually it’s been going for about 4 months, just without the world knowing about it. I love synths and music gear and so after much playing, hacking and messing with hardware and software I decided…