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Those are just momentary switches with key caps.

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The weird little robot guy is being controlled by a control voltage modular sequencer, then its audio output is going to some guitar pedals.

it sounded to us like "You look fat."

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I thought it said “you must suck”

Sorry I missed this question! Yeah, up at the top of the screen in recent versions, you can see the three levels of interface: editing, locked, and presentation. In Presentation mode, only UI objects are shown. You can also wrap the entire patch in a GraphOnParent object so you can have only the parts you want to see in another patch. So if you build a synth in one file, and a filter in another, you can build a third patch that incorporates them with only their UIs showing within a box, complete with whatever inlets and outlets you designed it with.

It's a crappy commodity-level joystick.

No, but I’m going to fall back to some simpler recorders. They should be easier to mod. This thing is wall power all the way inside and that makes it complicated and dangerous. Maybe someday I’ll pick it back up, but I think there’s a lot I can do modding shit Walkmans or even 3D printing my own deck.

@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 Ah I see.. Yeah I managed to get ahold of the official schematic (which is also how I ID’d the auto stop transistor), which has all of the high power danger zones marked. Based on that, it looks like the only sketchy areas are around the power transformer & solenoid. So if you avoid those, you should be good. Though I certainly can’t blame you for wanting to play it safe. Well, if you do ever end up experimenting with a DIY erase head in the future, i’d love to see a follow up video. A mod like that would be huge for giving cheaper recorders tape echo functionality, toggleable sound on sound, etc.

It is kinda repetitive but yes, its cool

Sadly, the Akso project has really died. The lone guy who was working on it got in over his head and was too ashamed to ask for help.

It's powered by USB. It's not plugged in at the beginning so I can pick it up and show you, It's only plugged in from 2:07 on.

Ah, that sounds like you're listening through an amp (maybe a headphone jack?) but recording from line level. Mine got pretty frustrating and hasn't gone back together, so I can't tell you for certain!

Are you recording to DIY tape loops? If so, you may have the tape inside out. I did the same thing & the recording came out extremely quiet. Re-opened the cassette and flipped the loop inside out and it worked fine

Thank you! It was a great time. We're hoping to get together again soon and not give anyone covid in the process!

Thank you!

plugdata is a fork of Pure Data that's completely backward compatible! Check out plugdata.org !

It’s phenomenally fun. Version 0.6.2, the current point release, is pretty good, but check out the daily builds. There are occasional bugs (that’s why they’re not released) but Tim is an incredible coder and I usually wind up downloading the newest when I want to work with it anyway. It’s going in really amazing directions.

Thank you! Before you do it make sure to watch my video about current limiting them! That said, they work great.

Thank you! I really love doing this kind of wiring. Check out the Kerberos LFO video, too!

@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 i will

I haven’t! But it’s not likely to work. The little guy is working pretty hard as it is! That said, my modified code is on Githib as Auduino2! See what you can wring out of it!

Oh! Also! You could build polyphony out of several of these working in concert. Use one as a router, listening for key presses. Then have it convey note information with PWM to the next oscillator. You could tune them all together or individually. I think it might be neat to have a multidimensional ribbon controller that controls each of the five parameters at once. I’m actually hoping to spec out such a controller here on my channel, though that will probably be after I do my X-Ray wavetable idea.

Thanks! I'm kind of excited to just stick 3.5mm jacks in any stupid thrift store toy! But I'm most excited to use them to control this old cassette recorder with pitch control!

Hey, there's a bug! See my next video! Gotta limit current through the transistor.

Ouch... It has modules and wires like the Axoloti or the G2... That's simply perfect.

@@bantri256 It’s a fork of Axoloti, in fact! I’m sad to say that Akso seems to be dead in the water and more boards probably won’t be available from ZRNA. It will be great if it is, and I’ll be there for it, but I’m working on other projects now. I’ve got an Axoloti device, the Voice Nodulator, that’s in my last post! I’ve got other such projects in the work, too. Drop a subscribe and I’ll show you!

@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 Axoloti has a slower and older processor. The fork is better than, the original. AKSO is inevitable. Axoloti is dead. Long live AKSO.

@@bantri256 You’re right except that both projects overtaxed their creators, who have gone silent and don’t seem to be fulfilling orders anymore.

@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 I should not care, the technology is already released, and is proven, to work. Now, it is only a question of time. If both modules, stop evolving someone else, will evolve them. Time is NOT, on their creators side.

Hey! Sorry, I haven't, but my latest video is about the piece I was missing: a way to voltage control that I could jam into the space inside. In this case, I'm using a MOSFET as an input from an external CV source.

Yeah! The Nord was an early inspiration for the previous fork of the project. However, you can really do any sort of audio and DSP in there. People make guitar pedals, modules, samplers, and reproduce old synths with them. I use one as a grain mangler.

Thanks! It’s an amazing little board! They’re still available but at a pretty low rate - they all come from one guy.

​@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 Yeah i got on board the original Axoloti train when it was on kickstarter. Hadn't paid attention lately and then I saw that it had evolved into this! Amazed at what one-person passion projects bring us these days. =3

@@DJDiskmachine It's truly amazing. I mean, Nic is an incredibe engineer. The downside to it bein one person is that...it's only one person, you know?

I’m looking forward to digging back in! I’m having a very frustrating time building an LFO right now but I really wanna get back to experimenting with tape soon!

It can! You can always ground things together - that’s what grounding is. Even if it’s a little off for one reason or another, it will just shift the signal one way or the other.

I just remembered the Volca’s jumper wire system. I don’t have one, but I remember discussing it with a friend. If push comes to shove, you can run a shared ground wire into the Volca’s battery compartment.

Got crushed in a gig bag and needs to be rebuilt! Hoping to do some new weirdness along these lines with full CV going forward though!

@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 what!! That kinda sucks but it also is cool that you can rebuild it with different features 😀

That's the intent! Modular synthesis really feels like space exploration!

@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 That’s AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I’ll get back to this soon! The Akso video series is what I’m working on right now but I’d like to get back to this machine soon. I just blew out my power supply (again) last night so I gotta fix that before I convert this guy down to 12V.

Thank you, potato! Miss you too!

It is SO much fun. I’ll be back to do more tutorials after the High Holy Days are over! Smash that like and subscribe and crush the little bell, I guess!

Oh! Only 15 analog pins are currently available. There should be 22 available in the next patcher update and 31 or 32 in a future board revision. The rest of the pins can be digital or perhaps part of a multiplexer communicating through SPI, which it can apparently do (though I haven’t tried it)!