Music from Marz233

My buddy Sean (Marz233) has been pursuing some side work away from his regular projects. The player below contains some of his newer solo tracks, some of which will make it onto an album in the coming months. When I hear these tracks it takes me back to a point when Sean and I worked together quite a lot. I'm really looking forward to collaborating with him again in the near future.


For now, take a listen and enjoy.

Trash Audio Synth Meet - Los Angeles 09.10.2011

Fun times this weekend in LA. The venue was packed which lead to plenty of great conversations and plenty of new Eurorack modules to check out.



Bay Area, I think it may be time to get another one going.

Bay Area Synth Meet 05.08.2011

Here are a few photographs from the Bay Area Synth Meet in Berkeley that was on May 08, 2011. Over the next few days I will continue to update the Flickr set as time permits.

Bay Area Synth Meet - Sunday May 8th

More information can be found in this Muff Wiggler thread.

Modular: Quantimator Scales

Bret posted another Quantimator test video. Check it out:

Modular: Quantimator Prototype #3

The third Toppobrillo Quantimator prototype was brought to life today. Between Bret, Josh, and myself we should be able to narrow down all of the bugs fairly fast. Let the bug squashing begin! Now the hardest part is going to be resisting the urge to write music. The Quantimator is really musical as soon as it is plugged into a patch and naturally it wants to be used in that context. It makes me want to play with it and not test for firmware issues. Hmm, I guess making some demos would be a way of working while playing.

So anyhow the image above is an arpeggio patch using the Quantimator with a Fonitronik Sequential Switch. The switch cycles between three notes which are output to an oscillator's pitch input. Modulating the chord selection with a control voltage adds a slight variation to the arpeggio.

Modular: Quantimator Progress

The Toppobrillo Quantimator is coming along nicely. The image above is one of the prototypes that we are using to test out the firmware prior to the production run. We used Pro-Modular for the prototype panels and they came out really slick looking. More information soon.The video below is of Bret testing the module out with the MakeNoise Pressure Points and the MFB OSC-02 Triple VCO.

Modular: Steiner Triple Envelope Generator

Almost done! This is the Analogue Realities recreation of the Steiner-Parker Triple Envelope Generator. Currently I have a few more wires that need be connected to the front panel components and then I'm ready for the first test. So far the build has been fairly easy since the project's documentation is really thorough. Looks like next week I'll have enough time to finish up the build which is great because I'm really looking forward to trying this module out.

More information about this module can be found at the Steiner Synthasystem website.

Modular: iPad/iPhone to Octomod

This a quick and easy patch I created in Pure Data to interface an iPhone or iPad to the Octomod. There are eight sliders that adjust the control voltage being output from the Octomod.

The Pure Data patch and TouchOSC layouts can be found here.

Modular: Octomod Breadboard

Pictured is my attempt at breadboarding the Greg Surges Octomod. The Octomod is an Open Sound Control to Control Voltage (OSC to CV) interface. This interface provides connections between hardware modular synths and software such as Processing or Pure Data. I'm still testing my breadboard out along with the software connections but I'm super excited to try it out for the first time.

Ongoing discussions about the device can be found on the following forums:
Muff Wiggler
Electro-Music
USB-Octomod Google Group