alloyed

i feel like this little guy is very much a creature of cohost. I actually sent an anon ask to @idadeerz waayy back to see if she had any opinions on how i should start with it! and her own "journey" post was pretty inspiring so now i wanna make my own

I'm not sure it's an amazing tool for creating new and interesting music, but it is a very fun toy, which was my original intent. For most purposes of creative expression, using a DAW on your computer will always be faster, easier, and more repeatable, but working with hardware, and especially analog hardware is a kind of self-imposed challenge that is personally rewarding to me. I especially like using things in unintended ways, and analog circuitry is rife with those kinds of possibilities.

With the exception of the case ($600 combined iirc) and the moog mavis ($300) everything in this case cost less than $200 individually, which is kind of my cutoff point. added up, it's very expensive!!! but individually i can treat each module as a cheap little project and accumulate functionality over time.

for funsies I'm also including "purchase order" from memory. PO 0 is the first module i ever acquired.

so from very top left to bottom right:

this is the white noise circuit from the other day! I still had it set up on the breadboard so i figured I might as well make it a little more permanent. bottom jack is white noise from a transistor, top jack is the same source filtered to approximate pink noise. no pics of the front because right now it is literally blank lol

(and I already got an order )

turns out when you order pcbs you get spares! so if you want any of these here they are: https://ko-fi.com/alloyed/shop

also open to trades :p send an ask.

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