Blacet

Here is a brief run down of how a CV Quantizer can change your sound with analog synthesis.

Presented is a simple patch with no quantizing, and then quantizing is added with a run through of the scales presented in Bank 16 of the Wiard Miniwave, used as a quantizer.

via djthomaswhite:

This video from Zonkout demonstrates a self-generating modular synthesizer (Blacet+Modcan) patch with camera-less video feedback, performed live.

via Matrix

John Blacet has added several new options to his line of modular synthesizers recently:

WC2700 Window Comparator

A voltage controlled window comparator with complete control of output setpoint and width.

Use with envelope or LFO type signals to generate delayed gates and triggers. Or use with audio waveforms for many interesting permutations.

Normal, inverted and trigger outputs with green and blue LEDs.

Input normalled to built-in ramp generator for stand alone delayed gate/trigger timing.

Precision, ultra stable Ramp generator has bonus Rate CV, Gate and separate output for use by itself!

A very unusual and useful module!

Available about November 1.

Price: TBA Read more…

This is a demo of the Retrosynth MiniROM loaded with PPG wavetables, courtesy of Jason Proctor.

The Miniwave is being driven from the sawtooth output of a Serge PCO scaled and offset through an audio mixer and scaling buffer. The wave select on the Miniwave is modulated by a Universal Slope Generator with gain and offset from a CV mixer. The output of the Miniwave is patched directly into the dual channel stereo mixer module for final level adjustment and then it’s off to a small Roland MA-8 monitor.

John Blacet has announced the winners of the Blacet Too Many Panels Design Contest.

Blacet recently announced the contest, to help deal with his “extreme excess of Multi panels”. Budding synth module designers were challenged to make a useful synth module that used 5 jack holes, and one pot hole.

The Winners:

There were about 50 entries. According to Blacet, “There were 17 ideas that were of the “scanner/switch” type module, so that really begs for a new product. Two other modules, phase shifted waveforms and sample/holds also were popular. In the end, I had to pick some intriguing modules that made me wonder what they would do or even if they were possible.”

• The Grand Prize ($100 Blacet Gift Certificate) goes to KH’s “Phase Spread Module”.
• The Runner Up ($50 Blacet Gift Certificate) goes to D’s “SHHH, Sample and Hold and Hold and Hold Module”
• Honorable Mentions ($25 Blacet Gift Certificate) goes to:
• PL’s “Haaspertame Module”, MMG’s “Xpander Module”, PW’s “Clocked Random Pulse Generator Module”,
• M’s “Three Input Scanner Module”, and CC’s “Headphone Amp Module”.

Details are available at the Blacet site.