sonic crayon

Sometimes you just gotta write a little piece of software that prompts you for an image (of a waveform), and in seconds turns it into raw data you can paste in your microcontroller code.

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Haven't updated this in quite a while. Bout time! In the last couple years, I went ahead and built a couple batches of both the Hollow Earth tremolo and Anti-nautilus granular audio destroyer. ...

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here it comes! this will help, as well

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2012/10/blog-post.html

ANTI-NAUTILUS THEORY Giant interdimensional nautilus portal right into the cities of the world! Most people, those who will not run, will grab baseball bats, mace, bad art, even a sword! Wh...

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In a couple senses of the term. Not too many updates last year because of a lot of personal stuff. But I have been busy! Especially in the last couple months! The Hollow Earth The new version I...

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Sonic Crayon FX now has a FB page. Should make updates and info easier.. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sonic-Crayon-FX/230721366984881

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Is a glitchy "sampling" mode on the new HE better than no "sampling" mode at all? The intent is to have a mode that records sound input and turns it into an envilope. Here's how I'm doing it so f...

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2011/06/he-v2-sampling-mode-brainstorm.html

v2.0 prototype. It works really well! Things left to do on firmware is the sample-from-sound-and-turn-into-LFO mode, a dedicated random mode, and some tweaks to the simple random blend you can ad...

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2011/05/hollow-earth-prototype.html

1:21 AM blog post! Just a graphic mockup of what I think the new hollow earth will probably look like. Oh yeah, just got back from seeing Godspeed You! Black Emperor, that was pretty fantast...

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Found the time to (mostly) finish the new prototype this weekend. What's left to be done is ironing out the few glitches and adding a couple modes in software. Specifically: -menu to assign a fu...

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..though a bunch of it was copy pasted. I figure I'm about 95% done the new hollow earth, at least programming-wise. Hardware-wise, an AVR dev board, a few rotary encoders, a trimpot, an led and ...

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clicky encoders are annoying. ordered some non-clicky ones. with the push-for-secondary-function knobs and the display now offering an expressive level of visual feedback, I've been able to simp...

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So I got myself a couple tiny 5x7 LED matrix displays to tinker around with. I thought they might be a nice replacement to 7-segment displays. On the new Hollow Earth, I'm using a microcontroller...

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so yeah.. I've started a complete Hollow Earth redesign. I really want to see it being sold again and the old design was just so difficult. Being on two PCBs, socketed ribbon cables, wired switc...

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I've finished a new website for my various musical projects (not really DIY-related). So now instead of pointing people to a myspace, I can just send them to this: www.dronecloud.org

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2010/12/ot-new-music-website-thingie.html

This is something I've been working on (on-and-off) since january or febuary of '10. For DIYers, looping is usually restricted to ISD sound recorder chips. They are neat but don't offer a whol...

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as of now. $150 US tracked and insured shipping is around $15 to north america. contact me if elsewhere. Check the blog post down below. Some samples are there. has samplerate reduction, bitcru...

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I'll have three bitcrushers for sale in a few days. two samples. both tentatively co-titled the-art-of-dicking-around. I have no idea what I'm doing. I've never been good at recording dirt-on...

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http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2010/05/moth-pcbs-are-in.html

hookay.... Things have been lagging due mostly to demotivation re: the hollow earth. That sucker is tough to build, I mean really tough. it's definatelly not dead, though, and as a way to help k...

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2010/04/sonic-crayon-moth-hollow-earth-plans.html

..I'm thinking of doing a small run (10) of simple samplerate reduction pedals to try and kick things back up again. Two knobs (blend and samplerate), simple circuit, etc. 10x easier than the hol...

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I'm super late with Hollow Earth orders, in case you were wondering. big surprise

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2010/03/hollow-earth-non-update.html

A quick flooper (feedback looper) I built for the Pines . Saw it in action at a show last night, awesome! Also, an old video of that bitcrusher I forgot ever existed:

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2010/02/of-floopers-and-bitcrushers.html

Little board I made to help me in developping the programmable synth. Seeing how so many things need to be controlled by DACs (for preset recall and automation), made a little 16-channel multi...

http://soniccrayon.blogspot.com/2010/01/diy-synth-log-2.html

Some sounds I had lying around: http://nearworlds.org/stuff/diy/diy_synth_01.mp3 http://nearworlds.org/stuff/diy/diy_synth_02.mp3 Part of a long-term project of building a synth. The rough ou...

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