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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.

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Eric Archer’s Drone Commander is a $325 portable synthesizer housed in an awesome Riot Control Agent box.

With a total of 9 knobs, the Drone Commander offers two manually-tuned oscillators and two LFOs, plus an unusually colorful and nasty filter. LFO1 is an analog variable-shape oscillator, and LFO2 is a pulse waveform that auto-synchronizes to LFO1 at a ratio of 2x, 4x, 8x, or 16x. Both LFOs can be routed to the filter for rhythmic patterns. A line-level output jack is provided for connection to amplifiers or effects.

Six of the Drone Commander’s nine knobs double as push-pull switches to control signal routing and waveform selection.

The Drone Commander is housed in a dark green military ammunition case with engraved aluminum control panel. The case is welded steel with an easily removable, rubber gasketed lid.

The unit is powered by a 9V battery accessible through a slide-out drawer in the side, as well as a 9VDC adapter.

You can preview the sound of Drone Commander below:

 

 Drone Commander [6:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Details at Archer’s site.

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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:

LAJ has published this a free meditative mix of fairly recent ambient and drone tracks, ranging from minimal and delicate to mildly dark and melancholy to cinematic and spacious.

Download the mix or the individual tracks from the Internet Archive.

via hiddenplace