{"id":674,"date":"2009-12-14T02:09:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T06:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-12-14T02:09:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T06:09:27","slug":"building-building-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2009\/12\/building-building-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Building building building&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since there was an update, so let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s on the bench of late:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>x0xb0x &#8211; Yeah, I took the plunge and self-sourced a kit (not that hard since there&#8217;s a guy on the forums selling the rare parts kit for a reasonably fair price). It&#8217;s soldered up and mostly working, except for an extremely weird intermittent problem I haven&#8217;t completely solved yet. It&#8217;s unclear what the actual problem is, but I think I have a pretty good workaround ready to go.\u00c2\u00a0 I also had issues with the USB chip early on, and then pulled since it was highly suspect when I first started having trouble. Now I&#8217;ll have to try to re-solder it <em>again&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Haible varislope filter\/phaser &#8211; Pretty much done! I think I need to reverse some of the pots and adjust some things, but it&#8217;s working reasonably well.<\/li>\n<li>A trigger-to-MIDI Sync converter &#8211; Decided to do this with an Arduino so that I could at least clumsily sync my DR-110 to other stuff (x0xb0x, AN200, etc.). Code will be posted soon, once I add in start\/stop functionality and test it a bit more thoroughly.<\/li>\n<li>MIDIBox SID &#8211; I&#8217;ve got the CORE, SID, LCD, and a pair of Banksticks up and running.\u00c2\u00a0 Worked great under computer\/MIDI control, though I think a noise gate will be necessary for the bad 6581 VCA. Waiting for DINx4 and DOUTx4 boards, and then I&#8217;ll have to figure out the control surface &#8211; it will be more complicated than the basic one, but less complicated than the &#8220;full control surface&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whenever the PCBs\u00c2\u00a0 show up, I also plan on building a pair of XR2206 VCO modules, as well as a few other modules on the horizon. Gotta start thinking about a new rack as well. I&#8217;ve got the first pair of Vector rails, but lining it all up is going to be careful work.<\/p>\n<p>Also coming soon: A pair of PAiA Tube Mic preamps- the phantom on my mixer died (just as I got some condenser mics! curses!), so these are going to replace that functionality. I&#8217;m going to hotrod them a bit with better parts and some ECC83 tubes to replace the 12AX7s it ships with. Ordered some pedal PCBs as well &#8211; a Big Muff Pi clone, and a Rebote 2.5 delay.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m also going to have to move the electronics area to a bigger room with bigger tables, but that&#8217;s probably at least a\u00c2\u00a0 month or two out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since there was an update, so let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s on the bench of late: x0xb0x &#8211; Yeah, I took the plunge and self-sourced a kit (not that hard since there&#8217;s a guy on the forums selling the rare parts kit for a reasonably fair price). It&#8217;s soldered&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2009\/12\/building-building-building\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42,1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-electronics","category-general","category-synthesizers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}