Modular Inspirations (pt 2)

This picture was taken from bluesynth.com. Its another DIY modular. This is more my style. I love the metal on metal look, and the kind of knobs that were used.

However, I don't like the flat paneled look.

Which leads me to the following post on matrixsynth. I think a mixture of the two, with a control interface/sequencer as part of the bottom row, and a modulation section as part of the second to bottom row would be awesome.

Modular Inspirations?

Well.... seems the group is moving towards a modular synth focus.
That's fine by me!! I wanted it that way in the first place anywho!!!

So, I found this post on Matrixsynth about a Swedish synth diy'er or perhaps he's just Euro. of some kind. Anyways, i downloaded an image of his rig & i'll try to post it here, w/any luck??

Needless to say he's definitely got the right idea in my books!!! This is pretty much what i'm after, just not quite on this grand a scale!! Basically i'm looking to do this; a modular of large & small modules & a mix of diy & company modules.

Go to Matrix & today's posts for more info.

Darren

Yesterday's Meetin'

Thought I'd post some minutes from the meeting. Me & Jason discussed:

- Future locations & date/time of our scheduled meetings.
We feel that ultimately Saturdays @ 12- 1 PM is most logical & conveniant for most people. Sorry to those that work @ this time :-(
As for the local??? Well... we probably could find somewhere better than The Grind? Maybe somewhere near a Skytrain station?? What do u think??

- Options for creating a bigger profile for this group/blog.
We will look into finding some alternatives to marketing & exposing the blog. Does anyone out their have any ideas to help out here??

- Gear discussion centered around The Fatman that J's building & how it's tweaked some interest in building some modules, in particular Ken Stones' CGS diy pcb's/modules. This option has me stoked for sure as i'd like to expand upon my modular gear!! In fact what i'd like to do is a group buy of some diy kits & build them together in this group. Who's with me?

- A new member came to the meeting aswell, his name is Rich.

Darren

Meeting Reminder.

Just a little reminder that tomorrow is Sat. June 9th, the 2nd Sat. of the month so it's meeting time again for those that can make it.

12 noon @ the Grind on Main st. etc. etc.

I'd like to discuss: Frac Rack modular building, Potential new meeting locations & times(??), & how best to increase our group numbers?? how about u?

Darren

Updates

A few changes to the blog. I worked around the color scheme a bit for one thing, and changed all the text to a sans serif font. Its a bit simpler this way, I find it. Pretty much the only extravagance on the page is that little picture of a synthesizer under all the links, which actually doubles as a post button (I noticed blogger doesn't have one embedded in their pages by default, so I added one. If it doesn't work for anyone let me know by email). I would also like to take this moment to invite everyone for comments or suggestions. The point of this message board is to act as a communication medium between meetings, and I would like to encourage everyone to use it, if only to engage more people to attend our next meeting.

Speaking of which, if I am not mistaken, the next meeting falls this coming Saturday. Noon at the Grind (unless anyone else has a suggestion for a new place). I am looking forward to it.

Blog content additions

Just wanted to chime in and say a few things. If anybody has any links they would like added or any other kind of information or layout suggestions, feel free to mention it. I spent a little while combing through my bookmarks to make a bit of a list on the side here, but there is a bunch that I have missed I am sure.

Also, wanted to point out that we meet every second Saturday of the month. We seem to have turnouts of between three to seven people. Each meeting seems to last about an hour, and there always seems to be some good conversation and company that comes by. If you have been considering attending or know other people that are interested in talking about music gear and the likes, feel free to come. We are friendly people. :)

Finally, I am going to be building a Paia Fatman kit this weekend. If anyone has any advice or suggestions, feel free to reply to this blog.

-J

hey-up!

hey fellas.
well, is anyone around??
just wondering how many of us are using the blog??

how's everyone?

d.

PS. i'll be out in Toronto next week, is there any gear anyones looking for that i can keep an eye out for??