Westlicht Performer sequencer
These are fantastic. Straightforward 0603 build, albeit with a lot of parts, flashed with ST-link and JTAG adapter. There’s a build guide on Westlicht’s Github. Worked first time (ignoring a single LED I’d placed the…
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Eurorack Synth DIY
Sheep wavetable oscillator – alternate MI Tides firmware
Exactly the same build as the MI Tides v1 I built earlier but flashed with the Sheep firmware as a wavetable oscillator, and with a dedicated panel from Pusherman. No issues, except getting the bloody…
Synth DIY
New case and PSUs
Built another 168hp case from MDF and rails from Synthracks. It’s powered from a 5U 12v AC brick, going into two Frequency Central Routemaster PCBs. I’ve seen several posts online where people have let the…
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Blue Lantern Basics – Peaks Clone with CV
Built three of these Peaks clones with boards/panels from JLCPCB – two with standard firmware, and one with Tim Church’s “Dead man’s catch” firmware. This firmware doesn’t work well with the latest MI Peaks pcb…
DIY tips Eurorack SMD Synth DIY
Flashing Mutable Instruments Branches
Built a couple of Branches, MI’s random “coin toss” module. Very simple, straightforward build with no issues -it’s just a handful of 0603 components and a not particularly fine pitch MCU that’s easy to drag…
Eurorack Schematics Synth DIY Through hole
Euro to Line / Line to Euro converter v0.1
Bringing non-Eurorack gear’s audio into Eurorack is an issue, as Eurorack levels are a LOT hotter, so your keyboard / guitar pedal output’s going to end up really quiet if you want to run it…
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Updating Division 6 Business Card sequencer firmware to V2
This is available as a PCB and Panel from Division 6. It’s a useful little Eurorack sketchpad, and the recently released V2 firmware adds a bunch of new features. When I built the module, I…
Eurorack SMD Synth DIY
MI Peaks build
Peaks is a dual channel multifunction module – it can be an ADSR, a clockable LFO, or a bass drum/snare drum. It’s a nice easy build with relatively few components. It’s 0603 but the ARM…
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MI Tides build
This board is of similar complexity to MI Clouds and Rings (the biggest challenge being the STM and the DAC in terms of fine pitch soldering), and I wasn’t expecting any major issues building it,…
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Testing out Beat Repeat
A quick test before it goes into the rack. 4 3340 VCOs, one AMing a VCA. homebrew Electric Druid LFO into O_c running Hemisphere firmware in ASR mode, Ladder filter, 8 step seq, ST modular…