909HAT

 

Tadaaaa!!! It's a 909 HAT!

This is the final retail version of the 909HAT module! I've got like 20 of them, so as fast as people can get on my case to send them out they'll sell.

Anyway, if you've gotten your hands on a kit (or printed up a PCB if that's a thing anyone ever does) make sure to get help building it by going to this Instructable howto link right here.

VCSlope hardware works!!

 

    This is the VCSlope module I obsessively designed in a week or so. It seems to work correctly, as far as I can tell... the two "Rate" knobs set the rate of the slope rise and fall, and clockwise means "slower" or, I guess, "more time going up or down the slope." So when it's oscillating fast, clockwise means lower, counter-clockwise means higher. This isn't what we're used to in SynthUniverse, but it's probably the way they're supposed to be.

    Installing several of these in one case and patching all over them could be a really interesting exercise is random/automatic sound generation. I'll let you know!!

909CRC

Heyyyy! You've found my post about the 909CRC, the crash/ride/COWBELL module!

For full documentation of this build, go check out the Instructable build guide.

Here's the user manual, also included in the Instructable page but maybe you want it here too...

The top jack labeled Pitch is for a control voltage that sets the pitch of the voice. This control conforms to the 1V/octave standard, so you can play tunes with your 909CRC.

The top potentiometer sets the pitch as well. If you turn the knob lower than 12 o'clock, the sample will play backwards. It's possible to scrub back and forth through the sample if you mess with this knob correctly.

The two LEDs show which sample is being selected, and playing.

The button below selects between the three samples, sample one is crash, sample two is ride, sample three is 808 cowbell. Hold this button for two seconds, and it becomes a way to trigger the module without an external trigger signal.

The jack labeled Accent allows you to control the volume of the voice with a control voltage.

The Level pot controls the volume of the voice.

The Trig jack is for the trigger. Send this a pulse of voltage, the module will trigger!

The Out jack is, well... obvious.