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Further Work Completed!

Darwin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:56:55 +0000

Well, today I got a wild hair and decided to buckle down on the output expander. I had done a board layout and was OK with the results, but I couldn't get up the nerve to run wires to, well, nothing. Doing some digging around in my bins of DIY stuff, I ran across a 2-wide MU blank with a bunch of holes drilled in it. That was all I needed!

After a little soldering and a little wiring, I now have a working (but crude) ArdCore output expander board. I'm going to put it through some torture testing, but I suspect we'll have these ready to ship before the end of the year. Yah!

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User Contributions

Darwin — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:41:30 +0000

We've gotten a new user contribution today from Alfonso Alba. This sketchs (which you can see in action at this link) uses drum samples from a Yamaha RY20 as a playable sound source. The samples can be selected with either a knob selection or voltage input, and you can also control tuning as well. The result is an amazing addition to the ArdCore sketch pile, and is available in our User Contributed Sketches section. A great module on its own, the source code is also very revealing for programmings that want to use sample playback.

(edit) Alfonso has tossed another hat into the ring - an LFO with a quadrature output. Very cool stuff!

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A Little Nod

Darwin — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:15:58 +0000

We got a really nice post-up on MatrixSynth, apparently from Dan at SnazzyFX (who is going to be doing a licensed Euro version of the ArdCore module.). Thanks to Dan and to the great folks at MatrixSynth - we really appreciate the attention!

So, as you can see, our module is ready. We are trying to get a bunch of parts for the next build, and we are working with a few pre-sale buyers to get the kinks out of the system. We should have a webstore available soon (where you can get modules, boards and parts), and hope to have more information on SnazzyFX's buildout pretty soon.

If you are a 5U'er, we'd love to hear from you. If nothing else, let us know how fabulous this idea is, how stupid you think it might be, or why you'd rather just get a Yamaha Motif!

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ArdCore Pr0n

Darwin — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:31:36 +0000

You know I had to make that joke, right? Well, here's a little taste of where we are at...

Sketches are complete!

Darwin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:07:36 +0000

I've just completed the second pass on the ArdCore sketches, and have added two new ones: a SimpleVCO square wave VCO, and the VCAR Envelope, which provides a voltage controlled attack and decay timing. Starting next week, I'll be beefing up the documentation, and creating some videos of the various sketches in action. Woohoo!

Schtuff on order, schtuff on review

Darwin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:33:40 +0000

Faceplates and circuit boards are all on-order for the ArdCore, and I'm in the process of running through the completed schedules to clean up the programming, add obvious features and generally test things out for the final run. At this point, I'm feeling pretty good...!

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ArdCore - Coming Up Quickly

Darwin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:16:46 +0000

Well, our "ArdCore" module is making good progress! I just updated the downloads page with a lot of new sketches, and I'm fleshing out the specification a little more for people that want to 'roll their own'. Circuit boards (specifically for dotcom systems) are working well, and we are banging away at sheet metal to make some faceplates.

Since this is for my Master's Degree, it really does have to be done!

Check out a little more on our Ardcore page.

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Playing with XFormer

Andrew — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:02:52 +0000

Here's another video from Darwin all about XFormer, which is one of the old Pluggo plugs which ended up in Max for Live.

PLAY: Using the Xformer MFL device from darwin grosse on Vimeo.

Clip grid remote control

Andrew — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:58:50 +0000

Here's my remote controller for Live

You can grab the archive here. Please feel free to use it for non commercial purposes. Get in touch with us if you have any questions about usage.

PERFORM: remote control of Live sets over the network. from Andrew Pask on Vimeo.

Please let us know if you have any questions, feature requests, bug reports, you name it

ddg says hello

Andrew — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:44:51 +0000

In his blog

We're working on some new videos right now, stay tuned for more in the next few days