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  1. Yo! Great song and video :D Needless to say, I'm a sucker for the sound of the Polivoks VCF. Sad to hear about the lost plane. Speaking of filter magic, the Fonitronik PS-3100 resonators are another unique and fantastic stereo effect. :whistle: J
  2. I'll happily pick up some if you have any spares or leftovers.
  3. Depends on the bank. Some of those don't accept international money transfers made from the on-line banking. Some, like mine, do. Also, parts of the EU don't use the Euro so it might complicate matters. Other countries in Europe aren't part of the EU. Banks in the US, Canada, Oz, etc follow their local set of rules related to international transfers. The point here might be that PP handles this for you. With your bank YMMV.
  4. The capacitor output voltage will droop slightly over time so it needs to be refreshed (just like the capacitors in memory cells in a DRAM for instance). Normally you connect those outputs to FET inputs somewhere else to mitigate that effect. The zipper noise won't be that bad if you update often, so Nyquist is your friend as always. But here comes the performance issue: Something (interrupts or a loop) needs to periodically update these capacitors This is how it was done in most polysynths and the occasional mono as well. See the Prophet VS for an over-the-top example of S/H taken to the extreme.
  5. Guess I'm a member of some cult if that's what I choose to read into the blog post. I don't get it: Is it bad the poor blogger has learned something about electronics? Not realizing that it was a large undertaking? It's like complaining that you went to university instead of working - it's *your* own choice. I occasionally build stuff (I'm more an engineer type) and occasionally make music as a hobby. If I wanted to and had the means to support myself only making music I could, but I don't see any knowledge gained as a burden. There are other kits available that can be perceived as easier - you can get an assembled x0xb0x if that's what you want. Also, it's not that difficult to buy an assembled Sammich in the fleamarket section. Granted, there was no Sammich kit when this blog post was written These days you can also get into Shruthis, Preen FM and other kits that are great synths that come with their own preconditions. Or simply buy ready-made gear... IMHO: TK and others have done lots of hard work for free or little compensation. Sorry then if someone is offended that they don't want to share the fruits of that work in a way so that others can make lots of money from it. And (the horror) you might learn something from it! MIDIbox may not be all things for everyone, but there's nothing precluding someone from starting whatever own platform on their own terms. I don't see why someone all of sudden wants to change the MIDIbox into something else should be stopped or frowned upon, but that decision ultimately lies with the creator TK. Anyways - have fun with your new SID synth! That's the endgame - politics aside
  6. Soldering. Listening to Nitzer Ebb. Aggro much?

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    2. Hawkeye

      Hawkeye

      soldering should be combined with whatever music fits the job best :)

    3. technobreath

      technobreath

      here's what should my bro should listen to while soldering.

    4. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Haha! Today I'll pick

  7. I wish they did more colors, but the transparent blue can be seen on some Microwave XTk synths. A friend of mine has one, I'll make do with a rack XT that comes with another type of knobs... I think the red ones were on one of the Q variants, Phoenix edition maybe? Anywho, looking forward to some photo pr0n Some day I'll have that very disco controller for my MIDI hardware... Maybe starting with the VS
  8. jojjelito

    Finally 8 SIDs

    If the 6582 had it's own hash tag it would be #awesomebox
  9. jojjelito

    Seq V4

    Looks promising You'll have tons of fun building and using this I hope.
  10. I was supposed to solder today, but no! The Radias snared me in a web of awesome sound... Kids, build stuff. Don't make music :)

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    2. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Tru dat! Must get cracking with the iron again :D That Korg thing and a Shruthi made an addictive combo...

    3. gslug

      gslug

      Korg thing? Monotron?

    4. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Ooh, those too :) Radias Radias Radias... Pure bliss!

  11. Modular building tip: When done, get a Mohawk and go viral. #Nasa-Mohawk-Guy

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    2. Hawkeye

      Hawkeye

      you´re right man, btw. when USA would revoke all tax exceptions that have been granted for churches and churchlike-enterprises, they could send a rover every two weeks :)

    3. kristal=

      kristal=

      Haha, that would imply that preachers and religious guys would have to actually work and think instead of snitching away people's money with bogus claims... But hey, let's dream on!

    4. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Regardless, they did get the Curiosity rover landed! Organized religion, meh! War on shampoo: suxxorz! TSA can go suck eggs.

  12. Life is good, ate some Buffalo Wings and the GM5 chip list is soon at 200 chips! Get yer ass in there so that we reach 250!

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    2. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Some say I have too much MIDI gear... Ack pfft!

    3. Antix

      Antix

      too much midi gear....never known this condition ;)

    4. Shuriken

      Shuriken

      I only used 2 so far. But thank god i have 3 more in stock ;)

  13. jojjelito

    UVFan

    Nice! :thumbsup:
  14. Ugh! Time to stock up on those really hard to get ICs. Analog mayhem will ensue. Danm, this will become expensive like nothing else I've built...

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    2. Shuriken

      Shuriken

      Darn, how did you get your hands on a pioneer run. Or am i sleeping and missed a thread on the forum? :-)

    3. Shuriken

      Shuriken

      punches self...yes i did.

    4. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Gotta check-in often, or these things pass you by. But, there will be more :D

  15. jojjelito

    SMPSU5V

    Nice and efficient! :D
  16. Tip: Check with the member julianf (The Beast co.ltd) otherwise. He'll cut you some very nice panels :thumbsup:
  17. The mighty Polivoks makes everything sound better
  18. Cool, raw sounds! I like the piano accompaniment going wild in a few spots as well :rolleyes:
  19. Thanks for all the effort, for doing it for the community and being a stand-up guy :flowers:
  20. Help needed! Push the number of chips over 250 so that more people get the awesomest MIDI interfaces. http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=tk_gm5_bulkorder

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    2. technobreath

      technobreath

      Hehe. I'm also in for 4 already, but I will also put in a few others there :). But is this interface relatively future proof?

    3. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Doesn't need driver under OSX, has W7/64 drivers. IDK about Win 8 yet. I have to test it using my camera connexion kit and the iPad...

    4. technobreath

      technobreath

      ;) If it's W7 64, I'm all in for more of them. I might just store a few extra chips, in case the supply dries up for real :).

  21. Hi, If you can wait a while, please help getting the list closer to 250 chips here: Bulk order interest list If you are in a real hurry, try the flea market forum. /J
  22. Only 1 more day until holidays!

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    2. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Depends on the weather :)

    3. technobreath

      technobreath

      yeah! I also has summer holliday now - and as much as I love the weller, the flexifoil (and me also) has to have it's air time :D. Wrong wind contidions nowdays though...

    4. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      Dalarna this week, so I'll do some work with my hands. No soldering until next week... Le sigh.

  23. Received my "lost" SRX card that had been sitting@Bundespost between the 16th and 25th doing nothing. Finally my 5080 has 4 SRX cards and 4 JV cards.

    1. Hawkeye

      Hawkeye

      yes, i also hate these packet timeouts :) (recently had a missing parcel from china, that was stuck in switzerland for 4 weeks)

    2. jojjelito

      jojjelito

      4 weeks! Sheesh, and I got jumpy... Hate packet collisions :) Today, just recently I bought a MIDIpal from MI in a nice alu chassis. Yum! Will only eat yogurt a while nao...

  24. Kick ass! I have to check this out ASAP Thank you TK!
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