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New toys: Polaroid i-2, Fuji Fotorama 880, Polaroid Flip...
Tuesday 27th, May 2025 11:09 PM
...a couple of new toys found their way into my possesion, amongst others
the new Polaroid i-2the even newer Polaroid Flipthe brandnew Instax Wide Evoand the outdated, should not work anymore Fuji Fotorama... [>>>]
Digital 4-Track Collaboration - May 25 Edition!
Thursday 24th, April 2025 08:59 PM
While the very first digital 4-track collaboration i organized at sequencer.de - the april 25 edition - is still running, we are already preparing the second iteration of of the digital 4-track collaboration,... [>>>]
München Synthesizer Stammtisch spontaneous live jam livestream
Tuesday 8th, April 2025 08:52 AM
On monday april 7 there was a München Synthesizer Stammtisch meetup which evolved into a spontaneous jam session.
The audio of the livestream i made was unfortunately distorted for the first hour of the... [>>>]
…a few synth-events 2025 (and livestreams perhaps):
Wednesday 26th, March 2025 01:33 AM
…now that the Nerdlich has taken place and i had the chance to participate i am thinking about other synth-related events in 2025:there is the Superbooth in may in Berlinthe ‚Happy Knobbing‘ in june in... [>>>]
Nerdlich X 2025 - synthnerd-meetup and livestream march 14.-16.
Tuesday 25th, March 2025 09:50 AM
On the weekend from 14th to 16th of march the Nerdlich synthnerd-meetup took place again in Onsnabrück-Wallenhorst-Hollage in the Hollager Mühle.
Being the 10th iteration of the event there was even a... [>>>]
Wrapping up FAWM 2025…25 hours to go…
Thursday 27th, February 2025 10:53 PM
…ok, FAWM 2025 is almost over - the FAWM.org website will be accessible for a few weeks still so that it is possible to listen to a couple of the - at this moment 11809 - songs that were thought of, written,... [>>>]
FAWM 2025 is lurking ’round the corner
Wednesday 15th, January 2025 08:08 AM
The FAWM-website will open again an january 25, 2025 - FAWM, the February Album Writing Month, will start on february first, and i am really looking forward to this as i had such a blast last year, that... [>>>]
latest tracks
FAWM 2025 contributions & collaborations
‚Dealmaker’ - from the digital 4-track Colaboration (me: vocals&synth)
‚Look into the mirror’ - Tape 16 of the 4-track-cassette Colaboration (me: lyrics&bg-vocals)
‚You must believe!’ - from the Twilight-Challenge (me: all)
HWJ - old, new, borrowed, blue - weekend challenge contribution
Monday 31st, March 2025 03:53 AM
This weekends Hardware Jams challenge revolves around the words ‚old, new, borrowed, blue‘.
As i was not near any music-equipment this weekend i tried to solve the task by experimenting with ‚things‘;... [>>>]
HWJ - Doom - weekend challenge contribution
Tuesday 25th, March 2025 10:18 AM
Last weekends Hardware Jams Challenge was described in just one sentence:
‚DOOM is the theme for this weekend ????‘
This is what i made of the prompt:
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HWJ - 303 trippy acid day - with video-synth-video
Monday 3rd, March 2025 02:13 PM
The Hardware Jams Challenge for march 3rd revolved around the Roland TB-303 as it is 303-day!
The challenge now is to make a ‚trippy acid track‘ - so i used the closest to an 303 i have available, an... [>>>]
HWJ -Periodic Table - choose an element
Monday 24th, February 2025 11:12 PM
The weekends challenge was to make a jam related to an element in the periodic table…
…torn between my FAWM-projects and the HWJ-challenge i ended up just ‚jamming‘ with some new toys which had arrived... [>>>]
FAWM 2025 - Tape 16 made it to its last stop: nice Photo!
Saturday 22nd, February 2025 11:01 AM
@wehappyfew just sent a photo of tape 16 resting on his TASCAM 246: [>>>]
Found: HexBoard 1.2 MIDI Controller
Thursday 17th, October 2024 10:48 PM
An interesting find is the HexBoard, a hexagonal midi-keyboard, 3D-printed with open source OS.
The assembled thing might be a little pricey at $569 (time of this writing) but still very tempting.
More... [>>>]
Daisy-Eurorack-DIY-projects
Thursday 16th, March 2023 09:51 AM
As i have a few Daisy-Seeds in my drawer i was curious what easy projects are out there - and i found a few; some that i might try to make in the near future are collected here:
benjiaomodular MiniVerb... [>>>]
More eurorack DIY-modules finished - and others prepared
Monday 6th, March 2023 09:32 AM
Last week saw the completion of the
on-off switcher module: https://charlyhotel.de/diy/?post_id=162and the 5V-to-1V CV converter module: https://charlyhotel.de/diy/?post_id=163
Also i decided to build... [>>>]
Tackled 3 DIY-projects - not bad!
Saturday 25th, February 2023 12:50 PM
Ha! - last week was a pretty good week in regards to the huge pile of DIY-projects waiting to be worked on (successfully circumnavigated the much more conflict-loaden 'waiting to be finished'):the Fonitronik... [>>>]
NINJAM & ELK.live - live jams online
Thursday 19th, January 2023 10:18 AM
For years i am a huge fan of NINJAM - a freeware collaboration-server to enable online jams of musicians located all over the world. NINJAM is made by Cockos Inc., famous for their REAPER-DAW - which... [>>>]
behind the scenes: video-tech concept of ambioSonics session 140
Saturday 17th, December 2022 01:16 PM
For session 140 we developed an alternate concept for the video-stream and the live-video:
the livestream would be fixed on mainly one, perhaps two camerasthose cameras would be front and sometimes from... [>>>]
Rutt-Etra scanline manipulation
Thursday 22nd, September 2022 12:15 AM
[article is work-in-progress]
While researching for a discussion on modular video synthesis in a sequencer.de-thread i stumbled - for the first time consciously - upon Rutt-Etra Vector Synthesis; i had... [>>>]
Tool: 100W CO2 Laser 1000x600mm - first steps
Friday 21st, October 2022 09:55 PM
[2022-10: ongoing project]
Another tool in the workshop: a 100W laser that will be reconfigured to be connected to the Lightburn software instead of the generic software-bundle it was delivered with.
The... [>>>]
GLOOP Eurorack module - quickie
Thursday 21st, November 2024 12:09 PM
Today i received the GLOOP-module DIY-kit from Thonk (176GBP kit + 7GBP shipping + 55 Euro customs+handling) and had a few minutes to solder it already:
https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/cutlasses-gloop/
Soldering... [>>>]
Eurorack - cable-management-guides - 3D-printed
Thursday 9th, March 2023 07:40 PM
A lot of my stuff contains 3D-printed parts.
As i am not a trained CAD-user i rely on the childrens-toy Thinkercad (https://www.tinkercad.com), a online webbased tool for simple CAD-developments. As of... [>>>]
Eurorack - bunch of buffered & passive multiples: done...
Thursday 9th, March 2023 07:36 PM
Today the shipment of the tkilla64-multiple-PCBs reached me - and as is was close to my soldering iron i just went ahead and built them:
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Eurorack switched passive multiple - done
Monday 6th, March 2023 07:01 PM
As all the tools were ready anyway and all the parts i needed for this quicky also i built a passive switched multiple today:
This module basically provides two busses onto which connections can be... [>>>]
5V-to-1V proportional CV module is ready
Wednesday 1st, March 2023 01:05 PM
Another module just left the bench: a 5V-to-1V-LZX-video-CV-module
What is it and why?There are two standards for CVs (control voltages) in Eurorack: for the Audio-Synthesizer the standard is from -5V... [>>>]