Siempre La Luna

They're all gone (except the SID which was likely damaged in transit or broken before it left her house. Who knows, still trying to figure that mess out. Either way. it's not available). Thanks everyone.

Sale pending for the SID, FM is still available. So is the Shruthi if anyone is interested in that.

If it's OK with TK and everyone else involved, I'd like to sell this sammichSID and sammichFM. I built them for my ex-gf (don't worry, we're still on good terms) and she's having some financial difficulties right now that neccessitate the sale. Link to photo sets here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siempre_la_luna/sets/72157626636797204/ and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siempre_la_luna/sets/72157625696361732/ She's also got a stock Shruthi-1 with an SMR-4 filterboard that she's looking to get rid of. photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siempre_la_luna/sets/72157626425605900/

1. Complete the voltage tests for both boards 2. Disconnect power 3. Insert IC1, IC2L, IC3L, & IC3 into the Base PCB 4. Insert IC1, IC2, IC3, & IC4 into Control Surface PCB 5. Reassemble 6. Fire up MIOS Studio 7. Power on the sammich 8. Make sure MIOS and sammich are properly hollerin' at each other 9. Upload the latest sammichSID hex 10. Wait for the sammich to reboot 11. Make sure the fancy knob and buttons are behaving appropriately 12. Disconnect power 13. Insert Banksticks (IC6, IC7, IC8, IC9, IC10) 14. Power on the device 15. Watch in amazement as the banksticks are formatted 16. Load the default patches via MIOS Studio 17. Power down the sammich 18. Install your SIDs with the appropriate jumpers and capacitors 19. Power that MF'er up 20. Check for smoke/fire 21. Perform shredding tunes 22. Create killer patches 23. Record album 24. Get rich 25. Marry supermodel 26. Make more killer records 27. Grow weary of supermodel wife/husband 28. Make poorly executed and ill-advised break-up album 29. Alienate your former fans 30. Take a swing at a reporter that calls you a sell-out and a has-been 31. Retreat from public life 32. Return 6 years later with amazing new album and smoking hot collection of girlfriends/boyfriends 33. Die as a legend in your chosen genre atop a pile of cash 34. Be an icon for generations of musicians to come I think that's it.

Super creepy sounds!

Yea, looks good. The white button caps are pretty sweet as well.

Looks great! Love that red on white.

I can confirm that the backlight pot has no effect on the display. Weird. I hadn't noticed that when I first assembled it. Mine is pretty bright though. Can you post a photo of yours? If we compare them we might be able to determine if yours is oddly dark, mine is oddly bright, or if they are the same and we just have different definitions of bright and dark.

Wilba hooked me up with that display so I don't have an order form or packing slip around that has the model number on it, but I think it's safe to assume they are the same. I don't recall mine being particularly responsive to changes on the dimmer control. I built that one for my girlfriend and it's now living in her studio on the other side of town so I can't check it out at the moment. The display being kind of dark compared to the LEDs was part of the reason why I painted the LEDs in the first place though. I'll check out the backlight pot this evening and let you know what I come up with.

The Optrex display is really impressive, you're going to love it. Wilba & nILS did a good thing by making sure the pcb is set-up to accept both the optrex and standard displays. Hooray for that.

LOL. The Siempre La Luna Edition, awesome. It certainly has a nice ring to it. I like the look of it so much that I went back and blanked the LEDs on my sammichSID too. I hate to say it though, I think the blanked-out LEDs are the crucial bit of the SLL edition.

Wink Wink

I'm glad you like it. The blue ones I used were 200mcd. Blue and white LEDs are way brighter than most red, green, or yellow LEDs so you might want something a bit brighter. I'm no expert though, so it's probably best to try a few different ones and see which gets the best results. Be sure to let us all know how it turns out. :)

I think so. It looks great and it's easy to do. I've got a gnarly week at work coming up, but I hope to get a chance to mess around with the idea a little more and see if I can come up with anything super cool. Perhaps it's time to change the title of this topic to 'sammich behaving awesomely'

The Optrex LCD is really impressive. The color is really rich and the black is quite dark. The LEDs are indeed opaque white. I'm always on the lookout for low brightness blue LEDs and I bought these under the impression that they were not at all bright. After I received them, I breadboarded a couple and and promptly learned that they were not at all low brightness. In fact, they were some of the brightest 3mm blue LEDs I've ever seen. In the end I decided to paint the tops of the LEDs white. I dipped them in some white enamel just to cover the domed part that covers protrudes from the sammich case. It really cuts the brightness while allowing the unpainted portion of the LED to illuminate the translucent panel around the LED. I'm really pleased with the way it turned out. The effect is really cool. I tried a few different colors of enamel to see how the effect differed. Black was too dark, blue looked uneven in the presence of varying paint thickness, but white was consistently great. This sammichFM is for my girlfriend so it was important to me that it look as good as it sounds She saw it last night and totally loved it.