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Noggin – toast test

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Title: toaster test
Artist: Noggin
Album: Buzz Exports
Date: 2000

We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you something completely different (I’m in Vegas, be back to the station next week).
One of my first forays into building my own electronics was a project called the Midi Toaster. This allowed one to rig up 4 pots and 4 buttons to the joystick port of a computer, and then convert the signals sent into midi data. I wrote this ‘song’ as a way to test out what real time control was all about.
This was the first time I had ever used something like a synth with realtime control. I peed my pants. I never looked back. I tweaked.
Name inspired by Orbital b-side “Analogue Test ’90”.
Download: toaster-test (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Old Town Acid (demo)

Noggin – x0x508 (demo)

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Title: x0x508
Artist: Noggin
Album: Old Town Acid (demo)
Release Date: 2010

Last September I finally built my x0xb0x. That is a bass-synthesizer, clone of the infamous Roland TB-303. It’s amazing how, for 15 years I have been trying to emulate this one particular sound, and now, after about two weeks huddled over a circuit board and huffing solder fumes, all I have to do is plug this machine in.
A C I D.
This was recorded literally seconds after I turned the machine on for the first time.
Uploading today because I just opened her up to do a bit of surgery…the USB section (yes acid has been brought to the 21st century) is not working, and I thought/was hoping/am hoping it was just a bad resonator not letting the FTDI usb chip run properly…we’ll see…
Muchas gracias to the kind soul from Germany sending me a resonator so I could try it out.
Edit after the fact: WTF is my problem posting a 303 track on 302!? HAPPY 303 everyone. Request Thursday still stands…
Download: x0x20101010 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Further info regarding construction process can be found at CasaVista