Just finished wiring up my new little 4-oscillator synth. Â Still need to prepare an enclosure, but it’s working wonderfully so far. Â It’s using a NAND gate Schmitt trigger IC (CD4093) and features 1 oscillator functioning as an LFO flipping between two others in the audio range. Â Another oscillator is providing some fun cross modulation voodoo between the two main tone generators. Â It also has a photoresistor that can alter the pitch of one of the oscillators (or be switched off via toggle), and some light low pass filtering. Â And, of course, a blue light. Â You can hear the result running through the Korg Monotron and Mini KP in the YouTube video below. Â Not bad for a $0.29 chip. Â 😀
Also, uploaded two new tracks to Soundcloud featuring the same setup as listed above. Â I’m enjoying seeing how much can be done with these little units, and I seem to be revisiting a minimal phase right now that is quite pleasing to me. Â Nice. Â Zen.