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Modal & Me
I wrote this a while back (mid 2024), and various reasons decided not to publish it, but now I think the time is right. I had a dream, since the mid 1980s, to design and build synthesisers for a living, it combines two things I’m passionate about, electronics and music. In 2000 I had my appendix out and as a result I had a few weeks off work, so I built the Monowave based on various bits from projects I’d been tinkering with. I taught myself C for the main CPU and soldered all the parts to strip board (oh what fun that was). The Monowave had two digital oscillators…
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Mojo and Epsilon
Things have been really bad for my mental health over the last month or so, to the point I even had to take some time off work because I can barely function. Some function is returning, but my mood is still very very low, and it’s exhausting. I have been working on Fusion 360 to figure out how to make sheet metal and how to make a case for Epsilon, so after some work here are some pictures. This picture shows the underside of the PCB assembly, showing 10 voice cards and one effects module. I’m glad I put these PCBs all together in Fusion before ordering them because a…