Behold, The FRANKENSYNTH: A Paia 9700S modular kit and a homemade sequencer (based on the popular "Baby 10" schematic).
This uses both of the Paia's oscillators: one is controlled by the sequencer (direct CV), and one is controlled by the midi keyboard (midi-to-CV). The sequencer is using eight of its ten available steps. I haven't yet fine-tuned anything on the modules; the keyboard doesn't even play a proper chromatic scale, and the ADSR envelope control is not yet hooked up, which is why the melody produces a constant drone. But I'm too thrilled to delay from posting the very first moments of this system working properly.
Currently, the sequencer circuit is on a breadboard and the controls are mocked-up on scraps of plexiglass, cardboard and wood. Next I'll be solder down the components, fabricate a custom case (tinted plexiglass) to hold everything, and eventually post a final video of the completed project.
Amazing!
5!
IllPropaganda 2 years ago