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I just released a new Track on Soundcloud

A few days ago a new Firmware for the Nanoloop FM was released that enables the sync feature. So far the nanoloop can only operate as a sync master but I really like the new feature. I recorded a short jam using the nanoloop and the volca fm.

for the next video I should practice a little more - the nanoloop controls obiously haven't been commited to muscle memory yet :-)

I made a visualizer for my track Time Perception in processing.

To create the bands I used a noisefield and used the current position of a particle to determine the new position. the index in the array of positions was used as the z-axis. So I basically created a noisefield particle animation but instead of drawing the points moving in time - i used "time" as the z-axis.

to create the 3D bands I simply activated hint(ENABLE_STROKE_PERSPECTIVE); in my setup() method

everything is flowing, existing structure is dissolving, time perception is completely off - days have passed but you still feel like your stuck at the beginning

I finished my final version of the Zynthian housing! I went for a spring-theme and spraypainted the housing in green and the lid black to give it a little bit of contrast. And since I start to get wired ideas from all the home office, pandemic isolation, video conferences, and whatnot I also added little flowers. Because why not :-)

The hardware is done now - onward to the software adventures! I already started playing with the sample packs that are part of the zynthian project and the dexed lv2 synth - but i still have "adding pd and supercollider patches" on my my todo list.

I also plan to record a video and post some sound demos on soundcloud soon.

I got my Synth.BT package from the kickstarter I participated a while ago on monday - so yesterday I soldered, cut and sanded my passive modular helper thingies and printed the official box for them :-)

Can't wait to use them in a Patch - so music is in the making ;-)

I created a new cardboard prototype for my zynthian. This time dino is much more satisfied with the button placement and he also likes the color of the buttons and the bezel :-)

I think this will be the version I drill into the metal front of the housing. Now I need to think about the artwork and a custom color theme for the software to match my buttons

I started creating a housing for my diy zynthian - the front panel is currently made of cardboard to allow me to experiment a little bit with the placement of the various components. Dino isn't yet 100% satisfied with the placement of the rotary encoders and I think I will need to 3D print a bezel for my display.

also the artwork on the frontpanel needs to be reworked a little bit :-)

This weekend I finished my self made controller port for the rotary encoders of my DIY zynthian.

I drilled 54 holes, killed one drillbit in the process and learned that a 0.5mm drill bit is to small for soldering pin headers (hint you need 1.2mm for that) then I soldered all the headers and the chip socket, installed the chip - tested all the connections - fixed the broken traces and removed all the solder bridges I created by accident

hooked it up to my pi - and learned that I didn't remove all the solder bridges :-/ so I shortened my 5v and gnd lines on the pi and killed it in the process :-/

But fortunately I had another spare pi - and after some resoldering replacing of components and my pi I finally managed to get the board working and all the rotary encoders work.

I started experimmenting with the Zynthian linux image for a spare Raspberry PI and a touch screen shield that have been sitting unused in my spares drawer. Now I finally managed to get some rotary encoders and a MCP1723 I2C IO-Expander. After some experimenting, sweating, swearing, more experimenting and finally replacing a broken pi I managed to get them running and now I have a super cool first working prototype of my DIY Zynthian

Now I need to create a more permanent solution for my mpc1723 circuit and a proper housing for the whole thing :-)