Category: electronics
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Voice Card Since receiving the first prototypes of the voice cards nearly two months ago, I’ve been hard at work in my free time trying to get it going. The hardest part of the synth was always going to be the digital to analogue interfacing for the control voltages. I had very little issues getting the…
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Voltage Controlled Amplifiers (VCAs) are an essential synth module and the backbone of all poly synths. In a typical monophonic synth you’d only have usually one VCA for the amplitude control of the audio at the output to be modulated by the envelope generator or LFO. But in the world of polyphony, there are dozens…
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I have realised that the skill of engineering is almost entirely in managing trade offs, which I am still far from mastering. This is especially true in a synthesiser, musical instrument, or any project that combines creativity with a technical aspect as many conflicting aspects must be simultaneously juggled around: quality, cost, artistic style, size,…
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Hello! As you may have gathered from the general gist of the website, I’ve decided to start a good old-fashioned blog. The main use of this blog will be to document my thoughts on various projects, not just for other people to read, but so I can keep track of it myself as projects become…
Joe Linehan 