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finished the elrad (aka eti-603) sequencer and recorded a little demo:

elrad / eti sequencer first try [video on youtube]

  This thing on the left side is the ELRAD stepsequencer pcb i am working on now. Elrad has nothing to do with the movie wargames, it was a magazine about electronics who released synthesizer and sequencer schematics in the end of the 70ies. Before buying a döpfer darktime or trying to use complicated mfb stuff, i give this thing a try. Back to good old control voltage stepsequencing :-)

Changes to the site:

studio & gear page now with mobile phone photos… yeah

d.i.y. electronics with three videos about the “bythesizer”

Updated the site a bit, photography and C64 MFSR is now gone as i didn’t find the time to maintain it and there was not much respond to it. “my music” now links to the zerozillion soundcloud page too, which contains newest stuff i am working on.

studio/gear/diy electronics coming soon.

preview:   first article in diy electronics will contain a short writeup about my “uni muff” which is a electroharmonix big muff clone that creates a wide array of guitar effects. it has two switchable pairs of clipping diodes, so both stages have different clipping, a gain ratio potentiometer for both stages and different capacitors to add more bass or gain to the overall sound.

time to update things:

* i quit the band i was playing with for quite a while, things did not develop as planned

* still searching for people in my area (austria – villach) to get things started

* in the meanwhile i will continue producing my tracks alone

* decided to go for full analog recording and mixing.  no more personal computers will be used on future songs, only exception will be the cynthcart modded commodore 64.  no more mousepushing, no more pixelstaring. back to real recording, real songs, real music.

so for a first quick test i recorded something yesterday:

http://soundcloud.com/zerozillion/awayfromdisplays

— machinery @ march 2011 —

recording: tascam 238s

mixing: tascam m-30, boss bx-8

monitoring: kenwood ka-405, telefunken tl 750

synthesizers: ensoniq esq-1, yamaha cs-15, yamaha fb-01, custom constructed “bythesizer”, philips pmc-100, commodore 64 with cynthcart (as basic rom replacement)

drums: kawai r100, lell uds drum module

guitars: casio dg-20 digital guitar, stagg nitro telecaster, custom designed fake telecaster, supercheap china telecaster with diy hexaphonix pickup

guitar amplifiers: peavey backstage 50, hughes & kettner attax 80, hohner p200

effects: alesis 3630, jh compact clone, sans amp gt-2, modded big muff green russian, modded ibanez cyberdrive, electroharmonix memory boy, boss rc-3, ibanez tubescreamer ts-9 clone, behringer fm600 – bsy600 – hf300 – tp300

todo:

* add case to lexicon reverberation unit i ripped from a spirit powerstation

* build simple 16 step control voltage sequencer for the cs-15

* acquire groovebox, had good experience with the mc303 back in the day, sure it is only a rompler, but one cannot deny its dead simple to lay down ideas with it – and you can also send midi to external modules

After a rather long timeout – I am back with new music.

A lot of stuff happened and changed, so I transformed all this into a new song.

Catch the wave >>> http://zerozillion.bandcamp.com/track/metanoid

News coming in!

As of just now, enjoy the new ‘photography’ tab that will share my private optical mindlinks from various experiences in realspace.

Big thanks fly out to ZaPenguin, for reaching back to me about the GoatTracker tutorial. More than 2000 people actually downloaded it from csdb, there were practically no serious responses since the initial release. It’s not about fame or getting noticed, I just wanted to know if there are any improvements to make or whatelse could be added or made better. GoatTracker? Train Stations in Poland? Whats the fuzz about?!

GoatTracker: If you check out the >C=64 MFSR< music above, you might ask yourself – how do these maniacs create music for that machine? One way which is open to everyone today, without actually owning that machine, is the windows/mac application GoatTracker, which simulates this particular soundchip very well and enables people to compose classical style computer music in a modern environment. (don’t ever call it nintendo music, since commodore is in no way related to nintendo. only common thing between these two might be the 8bit data bus.) So, some time ago I tried to write this infamous “GoatTracker for dummies” guide, which, imho,  can be quite helpful to anyone who really wants to get this started. Experience with trackers makes it easier to learn, but is not needed at all.

application >|||| Goattracker ||||

docs > ||||pdf Tutorial ||||