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This device is based on Coron DS8 because of its simplicity of construction and good features.
This synthesizer has many possibilities to create the sound. By delicate skimming knobs with fingers, you can get quite a bit (the most interesting things happen at the extreme positions of the potentiometers). So you have juicy analog beat, rustling drums, metal bells, laser guns shots and vibrating bass lines. After connecting the guitar fuzz and using the style of “fast finger”, you can successfully play hardcore, terrorcore or speedcore.With a choice of several such modules, there is no problem to build a whole percussion.
Video below shows operation of the device. At the end, a guitar distortion was connected.
You can connect an external trigger signal to the module and use e.g. a sequencer or external pad, or heat the housing. Functional diagram of the device is shown in the picture below. The entire device is based on a generator of a triangular course with the possibility to retune the frequency (VCO). This frequency depends on the basic frequency of the generator – the VCO knob, the generator of a triangular course output – knobs RATE (LFP frequency) and MODE (modulation depth), the envelope generator frequency output – SWEEP knob (range of changes). SENSE is the sensitivity of the trigger output (or the pad), PAN – mixing the VCO generators outputs and the noise generator, OUTPUT – output signal amplitude. You can also choose the colour of noise for the noise generator.
The boards were made by photochemical method. The housing is a classic Z-33.
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