Tuesday 14 June 2011

SD2iec




The SD2iec board is a quick and easy way to save and load Mssiah projects.

I bought mine and the accompanying the daughter board from nk electronics.

It's cheap, simple, and works great. Just make sure you change the default device in Mssiah from 8 to 11. (that foxed me for days!)

I am using a power adapter to run it, but I think it is possible to take 5v from the datasette port instead.

Also in retrospect I wish I'd used a small ribbon cable to connect the two boards, rather than placing them on top of one another, as this would have made it a less awkward shape to house, but I was desperate to get it working as soon as possible...


Friday 10 June 2011

Noise 567 sic box




Another machine joins the merry cacophony.

This has to be one of the simplest schematics ever - but don't let it's simplicity fool you, it's an extremely effective noise maker! I tried adding a power starve but it didn't do much, so I changed it to a pot to work in parallel with the LDR.

Here's a film of one in action from getlofi.com

Samples to follow...

Monday 6 June 2011

Old Casio Casio SA5 Tape

I came across an old tape of a 60 minutes Casio Sa5 based improvisation - all recorded live in mono.

I can't imagine anyone else would want to listen to it in it's entirety, but I've posted it up as I found some of it's ideas interesting, and I thought I might like to revisit them later at some stage.