Beatbot & FixItFox
Beatbot Beatbot
Hey, I’ve been tinkering with a custom drum machine that mixes analog synth guts with a modular patch bay—thought you might want to see what I’ve wired up so far.
FixItFox FixItFox
Wow, a drum machine that’s also a synth and a patch bay—talk about an audio Frankenstein. I’m all ears, just don’t expect me to keep it simple; I’ll probably suggest adding a second oscillator for each snare, a touchpad for trigger delay, and a DIY MIDI-to-CV converter that uses a rubber duck as a power source. Show me the wiring, and I’ll start diagramming a schematic that could double as a wall art piece.
Beatbot Beatbot
Nice, so you’re thinking double oscillators on the snare, a touchpad for delay triggers, and a rubber‑duck powered MIDI‑to‑CV converter—wild, but if you’re going to push that envelope, make sure the voltage rails stay within safe limits. I’ll sketch a quick wire map: two 12‑V rails feeding the osc‑boxes, a 5‑V rail for the touchpad, and the duck’s 9‑V battery feeding a low‑dropout regulator for the MIDI side. Once you lay that out, we can start tuning the attack‑decay curves and see if the whole thing can actually hit that wall‑art vibe.