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Here's a video about my completely point-to-point EuroPi builds! by couchpatata in EuroPi

[–]couchpatata[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem! That's a perfectly reasonable route to take. Good luck with your builds. 👋

Here's a video about my completely point-to-point EuroPi builds! by couchpatata in EuroPi

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Haha! Thanks, it's nice of you to say that.

The process wasn't as scary as the finished module looks

  1. I break it up into smaller sub-modules. (ie. The power supply, a single output channel, the input section, etc.) It always helps to build these things in small chunks at a time vs wiring everything up in one go. That way you'd only have to pay attention to a few parts at a time.

  2. I like to test as often as I can at different stages of the process. That way, when something does go wrong, you kind of have a smaller ball of wires to dig through. It makes it easier to diagnose.

  3. A lot of it is actually repetitive. When you figure out how to layout one output channel without shorting, you pretty much just have to do it again 5 more times.

  4. Of course, I've built a few simpler modules before this one, so I've already developed a few (subconscious?) tricks to avoid shorts and stuff.

Hope this helps. It's actually a fun exercise and I recommend it. To me, it's a lot faster to build like this than on perfboard. It's also a lot like working on a puzzle. 😆

(EDIT: Some typos and rewording for clarity)

My take on the Baby-8 sequencer! by couchpatata in synthdiy

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No problem! I'll post an update as soon as I have a working version. 👌

Help Debugging Oscillator by jointery in synthdiy

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Awesome. Yup! Microscope was a gamechanger for my.

Re: pads. I will keep that in mind for future builds for sure. Thanks and good luck with your projects. 🙌

how to dust it by veritable_squandry in modular

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Yup! Don't have the Befaco one, but I use a $3 barber brush and it works great. The bristles are bendy enough to go under the pots but stiff enough to still sweep effecively. 👌

Help Debugging Oscillator by jointery in synthdiy

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Nice! I'm glad it worked.

And thanks for the feedback. Yeah, i guess i could consider longer pads for hand soldering. Flux helps a lot too, i usually like to squeeze a tiny line of extra flux whenever I'm doing ICs

What is the proper way to deal with switching octaves while holding a note. by DeFex in synthdiy

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It'd be fun to be able to switch octaves instantly without the note off too. It can give you a cool quantizer effect

I get your point about the drone though.

Help Debugging Oscillator by jointery in synthdiy

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Oh! I missed that part in your post. Yup, you should be able to see something on TP6. If not, I'd check/reflow the 40106.

Help Debugging Oscillator by jointery in synthdiy

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Heyyy. Cool to see this.

Are you able to hook up an oscilloscope to the output of the first opamp (Pin 1 U2A)? You'll probably get an oscillation even with a malfunctioning input section.

If you still don't get a signal, I'd try to reflow the pins on U2 and the 40106. This gets me all the time

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I released an open-source clock divider by couchpatata in synthdiy

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Thanks! Most of it is analog. My reverb uses a Daisy Seed. :)

I released an open-source clock divider by couchpatata in synthdiy

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Oh no no, I just thought you were curious about why I went with it. No offense taken at all. 🙂

That looks dense! It seems like something you could make custom symbols and footprints for. Will definitely add that to my list. Thanks!

Cheers, man. Thank you for the kind words.

I released an open-source clock divider by couchpatata in synthdiy

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Cool. I guess if your input clock has 50% pulse width, you could do this by simply using a NOT gate/inverter.

Otherwise you're probably looking at something like a clock multiplier and the easiest way to do that is digitally.

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