Oddballs and One-Offs

 

My process generates a lot of oddball research devices, wabi-sabi prototypes and other one-off personal instruments that haven't made their way into production. Here you'll find these things. Sometimes they're for sale.

Picolaika Prototype
A Summer 2020 quarantine project that is basically a convoluted modular instrument that can be patched up for chaotic and unpredictable behaviors as well as fundamentals like AM and FM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1GTTQsgh18

Under the hood there are four wide range triangle VCOs, two chaos circuits from the Solar Jerk, a stereo VCA section, and a Wildcard section: a tangled web of comparators, a Phase Locked Loop, digital logic and analog processors for making complex CVs and audio.

Knobs for Volume, Frequency (x2) and Wildcard

w/ brass screw patch points, banana CV ins and outs, two 1/4" audio outs
sold

Double Picolaika
Same as above, yet doubled and with the Wildcard sections interwoven for extra spice

A little universe of its own

w/ brass screw patch points, banana CV ins and outs, four 1/4" audio outs
sold

Filter Box
Three of the filters from the new Grackler under one roof. It's a State Variable design with Low, Band and High outputs. Audio input with gain knob. Filter frequency knob. Resonance knob.

Special ping input for plucking each filter with a Gate or other rectangle wave. One regular CV input for filter FM. One special filter FM input with polarizer knob.

Great for audio processing, drippy percussive sounds and feedback experiments.

w/ banana jacks
sold