klee design continues

seems like ive been designing this sequencer forever, but its 95% there now

i have had photoshop crash on me about 100 times due to the amount of layers i have in this file
the amount of objects throughout my layers is astronomical as i have multiple layers of different components forms, then the silk screen holes and lines underneath, then multiple versions of silk screen sizes for different pots and renders of previous designs. my non-universal binary version of photoshop hates me hehe, especially since it is running on my intel macbook pro.
so yeah it has crashed so many times, i get so spiteful once it crashes and i loose hours of work.
however hopefully those times are now past

So here is my latest klee v2 design
the good thing about taking so long to get the design happening is that i've come up with some ideas of additions to add to my front panel.
The first is the A?B cv out with a switch to change from A+B to A-B
The second thing is a MFOS quantiser.





I really wanted a Blacet Miniwave / Quantix 8, however i dont have space in my planned modular to fit it in but i since i have so many random generator and complex processors i thought it would be good to add the quantiser as a feature inside the Klee. It can be used independantly from the Klee CV output, but if you want to quantise the Klee CV you can flick the switches next to the CV outs and bus up your voltages. The MFOS quantiser has a summing input too so you have more than one going in, so i could try to pointless things like A+B+(A-B) hehe wouldnt that be nuts! joke, well the main point is you can A+A+B, or B+A+B or A+External CV etc.

so there are some cool new things to explore
i think i'll have the cash to get my panels made early in the new year
so i have some time to finally do the last drafting tweaks
but im really hoping that i dont have to do too much work on this sequencer design
too much already, i get so sucked into this stuff

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so in other news my reverb tanks arrived and they are fuckin huge
ill take a photo soon
im also doing a design for a tube vca that im calling the vc-hearing aid as it uses hearing aid tubes. the 5672 tubes are pretty low gain so my design just is amplified a lot. ill be breadboarding the design tonight and once it is finished and tweaked to taste ill do a pcb layout and post it.

not much else is going on, apart from starting to order mb808 parts.
my xoxbox project is stagnating as i dont have a 9Vac wallwort
need some $$ so i can get it rolling again

JHABILE PHASER DRAFT3

k, getting to the final design phase of this phaser
going with the 4Ux3U box idea
will need to use a wallwort

the box will probably be 1mm steel folded and welded to shape
top will be open, just some edges bent over to allow the face plate to clamp down
as well as the oblig, wood sides :)

i've got an image here showing how the pcb and jacks fit into the box
i hope that the pcb can be mounted so that there is verticale room to mount the jacks on the back pane of the box.. there should be.

fast pace

well things are really moving, got a large package of bits today including my xoxIO pcb



perhaps i can finally finsih my xoxbox today
it was really painful not being able to completely finish the xoxbox while i was waiting for this IO kit. hopefully the build was smooth and i have no trouble shooting to go through. fingers crossed.

also my lpg boards arrived. these things look smooth

re:think

dropped the tellun doomsday machine and the tau phaser (as ill make myself a little wood box for it) and i have added another dual vca-1, a dual vcs and freq-shifter. funny that i can fit 5 modules in the place of 2. i think this is a lot more versatile and fits my design contstaints of fitting as much in as possible. the freq shifter design is a bit wonky but is reasonably spacious, i even had room to fit large knobs.

i am still to redesign my klee panel, i think that the current size of the wheel is too tight. i might make the ring a bit more oblique as i have lots of space either side. perhaps ill do this tonight


and here is build status
green = ready to panel or pretty much finished
orange = needs some tweaks, mods or to fix some bugs
purple = next to build

to do list

well i fixed the bugs in my arp4072 vcf
and i got the final buttons fitted into my xoxbox
it looks great with the IO back plate
i need to trim the pots, hehe, im so pro, cant believe i forgot to do that before i soldered them in.. whoops, hehe



so.... things to do:

fix:
klee (test the board then drop in the replacement cmos chips)
wavemult (work out what is happening, grrr.. and once it is going mod it so it has 6 stages)

design:
finish klee design
finish case design
boxes for schulze phaser & kent's solina chorus

build:
xoxbox IO mod (once pcb gets here)
schulze phaser (once futurlec shipment arrives)
digisound IO (once futurlec shipment arrives)
wogglebug (once futurlec shipment arrives)
dual vca-1 (once futurlec shipment arrives)
qfg (once futurlec shipment arrives)

breadboard:
quad lfo (and try add sync)

other:
call auburn metal and get quote for panels
source my etching sauce
get a bulk load of transfer paper and start etch tests

solina panel

i have huge sellers regret on this module
hope i can get jurgen to do another run
here is my first draft design


switches labelling is being finalised at the moment

jhaible phaser design draft 2

made it a bit fatter, the panel will be 4U x 4U
it will be a alu or steel box with hard wood sides
and the faceplate will screw ontop to close the box
jacks on the back panel
manual osc switch also on the back panel

this wont use a wallwort, it will have a toroid transformer inside
as im worried about the existance of wallworts in the future

the stomp bypass switch is pretty close to the glass jewel, but i think it should be higher than the jewel even when the switch is depressed. well see when it gets here, perhaps ill have to redesign if it sinks too low