Get LoFi Circuit Bending Blog

Circuit Bending and Synth building blog for beginners and pros alike. Featuring Circuit Bending resources that include: Tips, images, audio, and video. The lowdown on my new instruments, Glitch art, Minimalist ideas, electronic music, etc.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

New Gieskes Sequencer

that's right! From the team that brought you the Nintendo Barbie mod and various Tape sequencers comes another great design. The Sequencer o5 is a module based system with 3 modules. One is tape module, second one is a 555 oscillator based synth, and the third is a stylo keyboard. The difference between this sequencer and previous ones is the fact that instead of controlling LSDJ from the sequencer, the team switched to controlling the clock speed of the sequencer from the LSDJ. This I'm sure is a more stable way to do the syncing of sound effects with GameBoy sounds. From the looks of it I'd say that its an 8 step sequencer, as far as parameters go. The schematics are also available for free along with some sound samples. Personally I am a big fan of the board layouts and the plexi-glass cover on the stylo keyboard is ace! Very good job indeed. http://instruments.gieskes.nl/files/?dir=Seq05

4 Comments:

  • At 12/21/2005 08:41:22 AM, goldenechos said…

    Does anybody know what a "LDR struck to a LED" is?

    Reading his schematics for both sequencer and one of the plugins, this is included.

    This guy builds some great stuff!

    T

     
  • At 12/21/2005 10:11:28 AM, james said…

    i just assumed he was talking about a vactrol

    a photocell stuck to a led

    maybe i'm wrong

     
  • At 12/21/2005 11:48:26 AM, Master said…

    you are correct. LED to Resistor combo. Lets you control resistance by varying the amount of voltage that goes to the LED. Another simular component is an opto-isolator, but that more less transfers the voltage while keeping the circuits separated from each other. Just google for Vactrol.

     
  • At 12/22/2005 11:42:05 AM, goldenechos said…

    Is this similiar to the method of control you are using in you OPTO Sequencer (as detailed back in September)?

    Tony

     

Post a Comment

<< Home