Casper Electronics

Casper Electronics has announced that it’s now taking pre-orders for the Drone Lab V2, a 4 voice analog drone synth, rhythm generator and FX processor.

Description:

The Drone Lab is capable of generating rich, textured soundscapes, hypnotic drones and complex rhythmic sequences. It features a series of filter and distortions circuits as well as an audio input jack. This allows it to be used as an effects processor for external audio signals.

The Drone Lab retails for $50 for the PCB only, $200 for a PCB and parts kit, and $350 fully assembled. Read more…

Casper Electronics has announced the Drone Lab synthesizer – a DIY synth designed to make ambient electronic drones:

I’ve joined forces with Electromagics to design a Drone Lab kit that is easy to build and is capable of creating rich drones and complex pulsing sequences. We’re in the final stages of PCB prototyping and will be calculating the cost and taking pre orders within the next week or two.

We plan on offering parts kits as well as finished units soon after.

Pricing and availability info is expected to be up soon.

This is a demo of the new Casperelectronics Drone Lab.

The Drone Lab is an analog sound module specially designed for making dense, rich drones. This video features three going at once.

Each unit has:

• 4 oscillators. 2 can be pitch modulated by dividers. 2 can be volume modulated by dividers.
• 1 resonant low pass filter
• 2 band pass filters
• 1 fuzz circuit
• 1 pulse generator LFO
• 2 adjustable pulse dividers for making rhythmic sequences.

More info, including ordering info and schematics (build your own!), are available at the Casperelectronics site. You can also download a higher quality version of the full 12 minute audio recording from this video at the above address.

via bubagoo:

There’s all sorts of bent goodness in this Current TV documentary on circuit bending:

Pete Edwards is a circuit bender. He uses Speak & Spells, talking baby dolls, wristwatches, keyboards to build his sound, creating a symphony of noises. 2playerproductions takes us to Pete’s workshop and shows us how he’s bending the definition of music.

You can find out more about Pete Edwards at the Casper Electronics site.

One of the stranger projects we’ve seen recently is Casper Electronics’ circuit-bent double Barbie karaoke machines.

In the video, sounds are generated by the modular synth (right) and two heavily modified barbie karaoke machines which have been mounted into a single housing (top left).

The synth is feeding through and being processed by one of the Barbies. The second Barbie is generating it’s own sounds. Both Barbies are being controlled by the step sequencer (bottom left). Watch the lights on the step sequencer to see how it corresponds with the sound.

The synth is being controlled by the Pulse divider (bottom center) and melody sequencer (top right).

All three sequencers are sync’d together using a common clock signal. Read more…