Ther perils of "almost there"

I've found that now that Wally is 90% usable, I find I'm more interested in playing ON it than WITH it. I've been experimenting with different wave shapes, feeding the VCO's sine wave back into the FM modulation jack, etc.

My current favorite setting is a PWM square wave with the pulse width lightly modulated by a random noise source. I've set the filter to very slowly come down over time so that if I play legato or sustain for a quarter note or two (assume 120-140bpm or so for my noodling around) the sounds mutes some. The random PWM makes the sound seem noisy, but not out of tune like it does if I feed that same signal into the Frequency Modulation. Hardly a revelation, but there you have it.

I still need to get that DeOxIt though, since a number of my pots are still pretty scratchy.

Also, I'm becoming increasingly interested in getting that step sequencer project (or the similar touch keyboard project) going. I'm going to have a little time off next week, so hopefully I'll have pictures of some new projects to post.

I haven't forgotten about you...

I just didn't have the chance to work on Wally last weekend.

Through a little experimentation, I've discovered that I DO need to ground the sleeves of all those new 3.5mm jacks I added. So that, and the new power cables are the next things on my list.

I'll keep you posted.