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Hi, your pokemon are fighting fit. Check out these links for more information about the place:
Instagram: @mortenjoesWelcome to the game room, pardon the mess
Here is a fun sound:
Fusion cooking:
That time I was feeling the summer, but stayed inside learning Blender:
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TL;DR: I finished the project by now and have a working drum machine, pretty much in line with what I envisioned when I wrote the below. All the schematics, gerbers and more can be found in the links at bottom of this page.
Welcome to my room. Here you can track the progress on my current project, the Fool's Drummachine. I don't yet exactly know myself what it will be, but we'll find out along the way. I do know that it won't have your classic 8 or 16 step trigger buttons. Also the user won't have (full) parameter control over the drum sounds. The user will get a set of dials and play around with the sequence, sounds, dynamics etc. However without the user exactly knowing what is going on under the hood. I'm gonna call it the Drumbadum for now.
The idea came up because I was after some drums to accompany my modular, without the need for 10 expensive modules, as well as me being a bit bored of your classic step sequencer interface. When searching for a solution to this problem I came across the Bastl Kastle Drum, which looks very sick, but not as musical as I'd like it too be. Also I'm after cleaner drum sounds which more fit my style. Thus this project was born. The endgoal is producing a digital hardware drum machine that is intuitive, but also has a feeling of organized randomness. More of a live performance experimental machine, than a studio recording drum machine.
The reason I choose to write this down in 90s blog style is to contribute to the amazing DIY culture that exists in electronical instruments. Seeing as this is the first project I am designing from start to finish, I think it could be fun for others who are contemplating doing the same to read my experience. I have been scared before by reading online that it is super hard making PCBs, boostrapping chips etc etc etc. I hope that at the end of the ride, I can say that such a project can be done with little to no experience. No guts no glory. Also I'm just gonna take my time. Family, work, friends and other hobbies take up a lot, so this project take a while
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