{"id":762,"date":"2010-04-12T00:14:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T04:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=762"},"modified":"2010-04-12T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T04:14:23","slug":"ahmw-2010-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2010\/04\/ahmw-2010-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"AHMW 2010 recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to AHMW (Analog Heaven Midwest) in Indiana yesterday. Pictures are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/glacial23\/sets\/72157623711098325\/\">here<\/a> if you want to see them. I recorded a bit on my Tascam DR-07, and will be putting some of that somewhere soon.<\/p>\n<p>Some thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really shouldn&#8217;t have played with the new Tom Oberheim SEM. I want one now. I probably won&#8217;t get one unless Tom Oberheim releases a kit (and that seems unlikely), but man that was cool.<\/li>\n<li>I also got to play one of the first 50 original Minimoogs. Very cool, but luckily I&#8217;m not feeling the draw like I am to the SEM &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s because the SEM is sort of affordable, whereas a Voyager or a used Mini is quite a bit out of reach. I&#8217;ve got my MG-1 &#8211; it&#8217;s Moog-y enough for me \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>I also really liked the J\u00c3\u00bcrgen Haible Living VCOs. That&#8217;s gonna go on the to-do list soon.<\/li>\n<li>I also really need some more sequencers. I&#8217;ve already got some ideas in the works, but just need to execute them.<\/li>\n<li>I think an STG Sea Devils Filter PCB is in my future as well &#8211; how can I turn down Doctor Who related modules?<\/li>\n<li>I kind of liked the Vermona DRM1 MKIII &#8211; I think its layout is going to influence the Bass++\/other electronic percussion unit I&#8217;m going to build.\u00c2\u00a0 I like the &#8220;all the per-voice characteristics in a row&#8221; layout, though the Mega Percussive Synthesizer is way more complicated than the Bass++, so that may screw things up a bit. Gonna take some thinking to get that one right.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, I really, really need to de-jank a lot of my DIY gear. It&#8217;s mostly pretty good (and improving, I think!), but there are a few things that have moved from the &#8216;slightly irritating&#8217; to the &#8216;really bothering me&#8217; stage. In particular, I really need to re-do the power wiring for my MFOS modules (they were built early in my modular,use the MFOS &#8216;let&#8217;s not use a standard power connector&#8217; thing,\u00c2\u00a0 and I used solid-core wire instead of stranded, since I didn&#8217;t have any 18-gauge stranded wire at the time. They now pop out of the crimp connectors with alarming regularity. That&#8217;s gotta be corrected.), tune the resonance on my LPGs (nasty self oscillation occurs at about a quarter turn), try to fix my remaining x0xb0x issues, and lastly, do some kind of serious surgery on the Arduino Sequencer, since it managed to fail *again* this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other news, the prototype of my Arduino module moved from breadboard to a protoboard relatively well. It&#8217;s powering up from 15V (which worried me a little bit), though the DACs don&#8217;t seem to be working. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s something simple. Will probably debug as part of De-Jank-a-thon 2010 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: A revised project list (including work to be done for De-Jank-a-thon 2010), and maybe some other news of import.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to AHMW (Analog Heaven Midwest) in Indiana yesterday. Pictures are here if you want to see them. I recorded a bit on my Tascam DR-07, and will be putting some of that somewhere soon. Some thoughts: I really shouldn&#8217;t have played with the new Tom Oberheim SEM. 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