Pentabraids (DIY)

Sneak_Thief · January 28, 2015, 8:23pm

My DIY modular was finished after 8 years of tinkering - and somehow I had avoided any digital oscillators.

I totally fell for Braids and thought it would be a blast to build… five of them lol I had some rack rails lying around and made a little skiff.

On the right side is a 5-channel mixer/panner. All the audio outs are normalled to the mixer and bypassed when a jack is plugged into the out. The output jack is stereo and the 5 pots pan from left to right. When a mono jack is plugged in, the left gets sent to ground, turning the panner into a simple mixer.

One million thanks to Olivier for these amazing designs and the bravery, foresight and brilliance to make his work open source.

Bjarne · January 28, 2015, 8:24pm

Absolutely crazy. In a good way

nightworxx · January 28, 2015, 8:43pm

This scares me ! Awesome…

sammy123 · January 28, 2015, 8:56pm

coooool

Varthdader · January 28, 2015, 9:01pm

Whoa!

It looks so nice!

pichenettes · January 28, 2015, 9:04pm

altitude · January 28, 2015, 9:23pm

I spy an MBCV2 panel there…

sonicmayhem · January 28, 2015, 9:55pm

This is amazing. I have to admit, Black modules look so good.

Jojjelito · January 28, 2015, 10:02pm

Soo ninja! Amazing!

BennelongBicyclist · January 28, 2015, 10:10pm

So that’s what you’d call a Burau, then? Hey, what firmware will your Pentabraids be running, do you think?

shiftr · January 28, 2015, 10:11pm

wow!
and what’s that big sequencer like thing front panel on the acryl cut carton?

Sneak_Thief · January 28, 2015, 10:59pm

Thanks everybody!

@BennelongBicyclist: Bees-in-Tress all the way for this flock of Braids

(When I finish figuring out how to add midi, I’ll have to remove a couple of oscillator models to make it all fit)

@shiftr: it’s a MIDIbox CV2

borfo · January 28, 2015, 11:39pm

The CV2 can handle two different types of LCDs on one core?

Jojjelito · January 29, 2015, 1:21am

Yup. It’s a bit special. Some other stuff that’s in the MB-NG won’t fit because of those special adaptations. I think TK mentioned something about this on the MB forum.

sparky · January 29, 2015, 2:07am

Very nice! Now go outside and stare at things far away to get your eyes back to normal (well, thats what I do after SMD!)

I love the black too. Always wondered what that matt finish would look like.

rosch · January 29, 2015, 5:39am

crazy!

Varthdader · January 29, 2015, 2:02pm

Was wondering why 5? Why not 4 or 6 or 12 for that matter

Sneak_Thief · January 29, 2015, 6:13pm

5 fits almost perfectly in 84HP… and, well, Prophet 5. Enough said

BennelongBicyclist · January 29, 2015, 8:26pm

…and PCBs from Seeed come in multiples of five, and a Decabraids would have been really over the top.