Nothing here works exactly as it should
It’s been a while since I wanted to rework my Small Stone clone aka the Piedrita by Tonepad. This is still on a breadboard but it works well and it’ll be easy to start messing with those 6.8nF caps when there’s no solder involved. Right now here is how it looks and sounds like:
Following my goal of standardizing the stuff I built previously to be compatible to the Eurorack standard, I had this 808 Hats clone redone: Here is a little demo:
I need to build something to power the new stuff, at least the BH-101, its waveform mixer and the Midi2CV interface. According to the Doepfer Eurorack specs, the pinouts go like this:I’m gonna go for the full 16 pin version, as I might need the +5V bus sometimes. I thought of something like this, which is gonna use my DP832…
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To easily integrate the BH-101 amongst other instruments, I had to choose between the standards available. I went for Eurorack aka the Doepfer A-100 system. A bus with +12V, -12V and +5V is really the core of it, along with physical dimensions to fit in the racks. Eurorack requires a faceplate of 128,5mm x a multiple of 40mm, drilled with…
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