Replicating a success here in the MakeFixHack Makerspace.
Years ago, I found one of these cassette caddies in a thrift market with @SepticSnake and turned it into Rad Dog, the signal-generating heart of my #modularsynth rig.
My gear all daisy chains from a modded computer power supply, so I’m putting in a compatible power bus before cutting out panels to put end-of-chain elements — a mixer, a Data oscilloscope, and probably a granular Clouds clone.
Hey, alright. Power bus is in place. Gotta get up the courage to plug it in and test voltages.
Plus, I did the 5V bus differently this time: I can power Arduinos or whatever out of here now off the pairs of 5V and ground with a little 2-conductor DuPont connector.
I doubt I’ll have any in here tho
Front panels! You can see how I drilled the corners, then scored with a scoring plastic cutter to cut out panels from this cassette caddy.
The bottom slots will probably be the mixer and μClouds. I don’t think I’ll have much room past that. Good thing I’ve got more cassette caddies on the way from Ebayers!
#modularsynth #synthdiy #eurorack
@exquisitecorp
Thank you! The space efficiency requirement is a good creative constraint. The one on the left there is supposed to be playable as an instrument, but it lacks effects (and has lots of screechy failure modes), so I usually run it through my Voice Nodulator, which is a live grain looper with a filter I designed.
But the second case there is probably going to be all the end of the chain, so a scope, mixer, and effects.
Count Buchla
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