no content
I have nothing to say.
I haven't done much since the last post. I realized that the midi-to-cv still wasn't finished: it didn't have battery holder and the PCB was sort-of ugly (trace-layout-wise).
When I was looking for a nice PT2399 delay, I found http://tonepad.com/, which has very nice pre-layouted PCBs for guitar pedals (and the schematics are done in Corel fucking Draw!). I learned few things about single-side board design from them: make wide traces, do them on 100 mil grid (same grid perfboard has), do not fear non-planarity and connect stuff with wires. And design it on paper first.
But I have this one trick with which I turn everything to work, so I was deferring the redesign up to the point I lost all interest.
Another problem: boxes and cabinets. I do not know how to do them. I was thinking about panel-drilling, laser-cutting and 3D-printing. And designing case with integrated battery holder that's integrated to PCB (like Monotron has). I want to try all of that. But I have to start with cardboard design, measuring holes, ordering screws and all that.
I used to write "ideas" of things I wanted to make. My notebook looked like graveyard of dreams. They weren't "ideas" per-se, they were just objects I wanted to have. I do not write "dreams" anymore, I keep them in a big pot in my head and I stir them like stew.
Model:Samples is overpriced piece of shit. I was thinking about it a week ago - trying to remember all the shitty gear that had similar "features". Volca Sample came to mind. Also: Korg ES-1, from the first series of Electribes. So I went and bought it, for about 135 EUR. Not bad, considering it is more powerful than both both Volca Sample and the Model:Samples (because it can actually sample).
It uses Smart Media cards (I almost wrote "Smart:Media"), which are something between flash card and floppy disk (the 5.25" ones) - it's flash, but it's thin and "floppy".
I have nothing to say. I haven't even done a song on ES-1.
I have been listening to tracker jungle a lot lately.
How the hell did I manage to turn all my hobbies to something that feels like work and that I need to force through? Also: I want to try some "different" things (rust? evolutionary algorithm for fastest stick figure? web design?).
nevertheless
I want to write something at least once a week, be it a "No Content" post or something more meaningful.