I'm having a late childhood I guess, but I remember my dad being into electronics a lot when I was really young, and got a bit interested in using it for music a few years ago. I started with the 555 to build an atari punk console (actually Forest M Mims III Stepped Tone Generator I believe, circa 1984).. Then I saved up the parts for a Weird Sound Generator, and was circuitbending quite a few gadgets by then, impressing a few of my friends with my newfound knowledge, but mostly making annoying sounds 5 hours a day or more >=D Then when I got into CMOS logic chips (4000 series) and the 40106 hex schmidt trigger (7 squarewaves) and things like counters, multipliers, dividers, shift registers, 4066 switches, etc it was quite the noisy living room at my house for quite awhile, solder and parts and wire strewn all over the stove (only vented place I have here), so many days looking at a messy & halfbaked idea on a circuit board going I wonder whats wrong with this.. until one day realizing the small (or big!!) problem and why it doesnt work. But there is something really pleasing about those squarewaves though. Especially a fat detuned and distorted to hell one with a slight decay on the pitch at about a low D with about 12-14db gain around 60hz, then subtract a medium sized Q around 200hz or so.. add a highpassed crazy distortion channel compress the hell out of it and sidechain to kick and THAT is the recipe for the beginning of a tasty beat.. but I digress.. hehe
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I'm having a late childhood I guess, but I remember my dad being into electronics a lot when I was really young, and got a bit interested in using it for music a few years ago. I started with the 555 to build an atari punk console (actually Forest M Mims III Stepped Tone Generator I believe, circa 1984).. Then I saved up the parts for a Weird Sound Generator, and was circuitbending quite a few gadgets by then, impressing a few of my friends with my newfound knowledge, but mostly making annoying sounds 5 hours a day or more >=D Then when I got into CMOS logic chips (4000 series) and the 40106 hex schmidt trigger (7 squarewaves) and things like counters, multipliers, dividers, shift registers, 4066 switches, etc it was quite the noisy living room at my house for quite awhile, solder and parts and wire strewn all over the stove (only vented place I have here), so many days looking at a messy & halfbaked idea on a circuit board going I wonder whats wrong with this.. until one day realizing the small (or big!!) problem and why it doesnt work. But there is something really pleasing about those squarewaves though. Especially a fat detuned and distorted to hell one with a slight decay on the pitch at about a low D with about 12-14db gain around 60hz, then subtract a medium sized Q around 200hz or so.. add a highpassed crazy distortion channel compress the hell out of it and sidechain to kick and THAT is the recipe for the beginning of a tasty beat.. but I digress.. hehe