I've been putting together a DIY eurorack case (9U, 126HP) and I have a feeling it's gonna end up being full of modules from this series! Such great content, I can't wait to see what else you've got in store for us.
Great video, lots of good ideas in there. I read a nice quote from Émilie Gillet (Mutable Instruments) yesterday - "I think there are still many things to be discovered on boring, old-fashioned, small things like generating families of interesting LFO waveforms or musically useful random data." At first it seems a bit weird quoting frequencies in milliHertz (mHz) but I suppose it makes sense for LFOs... period in seconds is maybe easier to understand, but will still take up similar space on the front panel?
Thanks for the interesting comment. Concerning the frequencies, I guess you mean the Fixed Sine Bank, Actually, I just went with the information given in the documentation from North Coast Synthesis with the Hz/mHz information. I anyway choose one of those LFOs by looking at the LED. I might also design the front panel differently, if I would build another one.
@@TOILmodular I sort of need a VC clock for my sequencers and Bartons VCLFO was a decent choice. Besides I picked up other PCBs/PICs from Barton at the same time. I have several of the PIC-based modules like the quantizer and arpeggiator and (soldering right now) the 4-knob sequencer and 1Song.
really nice producion on this, love the Python intro! A question about the Hagiwo module: I have read comments on some of his other modules that the output voltages are lower than usual, since the nano doesnt produce high enough voltages and I notice the range here is 0-5v, compared to 0-11v on some of the others. Is this a problem?
Thanks, the intros are fun to make. I intend to keep it up. Hope, I will not run out of ideas. Concerning your question: I have no issue with that range. It is just a limitation. But in my experience, too large LFO ranges are not so useful anyway. E.g. the outputs from the MFOS LFO are sometimes too much, and it has no attenuator. I guess it always depends on what you want to use it for.
Is it possible to make an analog diy LFO with a reset input? (A trigger/gate input that resets the LFO wave to the same position every time, for synched rhythmic modulation)
I do not have any analog LFoO capable of that. There are several digital DIY options. The Sync LFO from Hagiwo can be synced to an external signal. I think you can use that for your purpose. I also built Mutable Instruments clones of Tides V1 and V2. They have a trigger input. You can check my other videos and my GitHub for that.
@@TOILmodular thanks for the response! I thought about it some more and there are analog envelope generators with a loop function. That means it should also be possible with an LFO, but then again, a looping adsr _is_ an LFO, and a very flexible one at that Edit: not necessarily an adsr, a simple AD can do triangle, saw and reverse saw, while I'm not sure a square is possible. (Maybe an eg with "hold" and at least two stages after?)
I've been putting together a DIY eurorack case (9U, 126HP) and I have a feeling it's gonna end up being full of modules from this series! Such great content, I can't wait to see what else you've got in store for us.
Sounds great, James. I hope I can provide a few more suggestions.
Thanks for your time sharing a lot of usefull info. I hope you'll continues this nice series for all of your diy module i can see in your case! 😃
Thank you. Yes, I intend to continue.
Thanks a lot! This series of videos is gold
Good to know that it is helpful. Thanks.
This series is great and the intros are hilarious! Envelope Generator next please.
Thank you. Working on it and on new intro ideas.
Great video, lots of good ideas in there. I read a nice quote from Émilie Gillet (Mutable Instruments) yesterday - "I think there are still many things to be discovered on boring, old-fashioned, small things like generating families of interesting LFO waveforms or musically useful random data."
At first it seems a bit weird quoting frequencies in milliHertz (mHz) but I suppose it makes sense for LFOs... period in seconds is maybe easier to understand, but will still take up similar space on the front panel?
Thanks for the interesting comment.
Concerning the frequencies, I guess you mean the Fixed Sine Bank, Actually, I just went with the information given in the documentation from North Coast Synthesis with the Hz/mHz information. I anyway choose one of those LFOs by looking at the LED. I might also design the front panel differently, if I would build another one.
Barton also has a simple VCLFO. Just built mine but again … not tested.😮
Don‘t know that one. Have to take a look.
@@TOILmodular I sort of need a VC clock for my sequencers and Bartons VCLFO was a decent choice. Besides I picked up other PCBs/PICs from Barton at the same time.
I have several of the PIC-based modules like the quantizer and arpeggiator and (soldering right now) the 4-knob sequencer and 1Song.
Actually, I also bought the arpeggiator and dual quantizer from Barton. Both work nicely.
really nice producion on this, love the Python intro! A question about the Hagiwo module: I have read comments on some of his other modules that the output voltages are lower than usual, since the nano doesnt produce high enough voltages and I notice the range here is 0-5v, compared to 0-11v on some of the others. Is this a problem?
Thanks, the intros are fun to make. I intend to keep it up. Hope, I will not run out of ideas. Concerning your question: I have no issue with that range. It is just a limitation. But in my experience, too large LFO ranges are not so useful anyway. E.g. the outputs from the MFOS LFO are sometimes too much, and it has no attenuator. I guess it always depends on what you want to use it for.
Is it possible to make an analog diy LFO with a reset input?
(A trigger/gate input that resets the LFO wave to the same position every time, for synched rhythmic modulation)
I do not have any analog LFoO capable of that. There are several digital DIY options. The Sync LFO from Hagiwo can be synced to an external signal. I think you can use that for your purpose. I also built Mutable Instruments clones of Tides V1 and V2. They have a trigger input. You can check my other videos and my GitHub for that.
@@TOILmodular thanks for the response! I thought about it some more and there are analog envelope generators with a loop function. That means it should also be possible with an LFO, but then again, a looping adsr _is_ an LFO, and a very flexible one at that
Edit: not necessarily an adsr, a simple AD can do triangle, saw and reverse saw, while I'm not sure a square is possible. (Maybe an eg with "hold" and at least two stages after?)