3U Oakley superladder from bridechamber expected in early 2008

Bridechamber, maker of front panels for Oakley synths and others should be coming out with a 3U superladder panel "in the first half of 2008".



This is of interest to me as I'm still not sure what I'm going to do for a front panel for my superladder module.

Stocking a synth DIY parts drawer

Nice thread on the synth-diy mailing list: click here

New journal, Oakley modular stuff

I thought I'd create a publicly accessible journal to record the progress and insights gained from my own DIY synth projects, hopefully other people (and in retrospect, myself!) will find some useful info here :)

So anyway, I've just recieved notice that my Oakley modular PCB's have shipped, I'm getting the SuperLadder module and the VC-ADSR. I have yet to work out the details about sourcing components, besides getting a bunch of plain 2% carbon resistors from Fry's, I may soon have some foibles to document on that front ... there's a set of parts suppliers on the synthtech site that I'll be using for that part.

Anyway Oakley's modules struck me right away as having the most flexible voltage controllability, much more than any others I've yet seen, especially the VC-ADSR. The option to tweak envelope times based on separate CV's is something I have yet to see on any other envelope module available, which is good because I hate static envelopes!

I'll actually be laying out these oakley modules onto perfboard from the full schematics that come with the PCB's, as that's what I'm going to be doing a lot of in the future, and it'd be a pretty good starter excercise to working up to cloning other circuits where there won't be any PCB option.

More later ...