Before I forget
anton , it's a great track, very atmospheric, I love the birds being played by filter resonance!
Also awesome photo of your AE rack! There is so much cool DIY going on in there, would you mind describing some of those modules?
Hi, Careck. Thank you for appreciating the track!)
Here's the short description of my third party and DIY modules (left to right, from the lower row to the upper):
Lower row L to R:
1) The baby 8 sequencer I ordered from Rakit and below the Division 6 Business Card Sequencer (highly usable one) from Thonk.
2) A 3-bit VC switch based on loopier design posted on this forum in DIY section. I added an 8-step variable sequencer option.
3) Right to the delay comes a simple 4 in - 4 out passive switch with both momentary and latch switches. Each input and output is doubled so it's possible to make some complex routing between several ins or outs.
4) Two modules with black plastic panels are Event Generators based on Electric Druid's ONESHOT Event Generator PICs. I simplified a scheme a bit because of a 0-5v power supply but I think I need to rework the CV inputs as there's some backward voltage here. Any advice here is highly appreciated). Maybe I shoud simply add a 4148 diode on each CV input.
5) The thing labeled Mix 4 is not a mixer). It's a passive dupont to 3,5 jack converter. I use it to route additional 4 channels of audio into my DAW.
Middle row L to R:
1) The black panel module is an LFO based on Electric Druid's STOMPLFO 8-pin tap tempo LFO chip. It's basically the same chip as the one used in the Event Generator, just programmed in a different way. It's my favourite hardware LFO ever as it can be triggered by external pulse or by pushbutton, has depth and offset controls which diminishes the need in external attenueverter/attenuator and has 8 different waveforms.
2) Next comes the more sophisticated LFO based on Electric Druid's VCLFO 10 chip. It has a lot of options (2 banks of 8 waveforms, wave distort, s&h, smooth switch, very wide frequency range so I sometimes use it as an oscillator). But I like STOMPLFO more as it's simply more convenient and effective to use.
3) The last one in the row is the 3LPG triple LPG module. One LPG is based on diy vactrol made with the use of red LED (I like it as it has that fade out tail, much like a plate reverb), the other two are based on Xvive VTL5C3 vactrols. There's a level and tone control for each LPG.
Upper row L to R:
1) The Electric Druid VCDO which I need to remake (add proper note input, it's reverse now and add the proper output filtering)
2) DIY 4 in - 4 out CV switch based on CD4066BE IC. It can be activated by input CV or by buttons. There's a crosschannel bleed I need to get rid of so now I use it for CV routing.
3) Another Electric Druid's STOMPLFO.
4) Electric Druids ENVGEN 8C VCADSR Envelope Generator - it's a bit buggy because of my design flaws. Think I should have done a simpler version with ADSR controls only. But I already like it a lot as it is very punchy, good for percussive stuff.
5) Another Electric Druid's VCLFO 10 chip - it stopped working recently, need to fix it.
6) Simple CV to MIDI CC converter based on
NightMachines design. It's works fine but is a bit noisy on the inputs (the issue can be solved by raising the midi cc lower threshold on the software). I plan to use it with TouchDesigner and occasionaly use it with Audiomulch software.
