I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
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Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#2"Lady's in trouble with the law" is a classic track. I love this guy.
Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#3Thanks to the magic of Eurorack, it's easier than ever (albeit expensive) to build your own synth. Even "from scratch" oscillators aren't too difficult, if you're familiar with breadboarding/soldering.
Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#4Thanks to the magic of Eurorack, it's easier than ever (albeit expensive) to build your own synth. Even "from scratch" oscillators aren't too difficult, if you're familiar with breadboarding/soldering.
Thanks for mentioning that, I was not aware of Eurorack and when I looked it up I found the Synth DIY Wiki, which is a treasure trove for this topic, super cool (https://sdiy.info/wiki/Main_Page ). BTW, some friends and I build the Box of Boom, which is an interactive digital + analog drum kit that uses actuators to play real drums with a video game console ( see https://www.boxofboom.com ). We're exploring doing a new version that integrates more synth-y sounds and signal modifiers.
Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#5The slider interface on the second prototype is very appealing as a UX. His other ones look sold out, and naively I could see custom collector synths from artists become quite a thing.
What I love about making music with synths is you're essentially exploring a fractal overlaid on all possible audible frequencies, modulated by time. There is a kind of romanticism to the analog aspect of it that emphasises how it is a tangible event instead of a sampled representation, which is basically a fluffy idea now because physically humans are indifferent to whether it's one or the other, but the way it comes out in music is that on machines like this, the art of it is something discovered and shared moreso than reflected and produced. It doesn't really matter, but if there were an impulse-buy priced one akin to the stuff at teenage.engineering by this artist or another one, I could see a mini-craze for them.
Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#6It's nice to see this here -- as Ellen Fullman said, instrument building is composition.
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#7What a great insight!
I absolutely loved his first album. Even better when he teamed up with Conan Mockasin (who I’ve always kept an eye on because I went to school with him) to form Soft Hair. Their track, The Lying has to Stop, is a work of beauty.
Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#8I built a drum machine last summer. highly recommend it. wasn't analog, but I was building it for different reasons.
I had some help, and some disappointments, but building your own hardware is pretty easy with the Arduino ecosystem.
Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#9It's nice to see this here -- as Ellen Fullman said, instrument building is composition.
Is that quote from a particular interview or talk? I'm interested in the context and learning more about Fullman
Re: I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
#10There's a brilliant set of live performances from the artist, of music made with these machines: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLafsplTntnuaL2ARcXtij...