Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My submission for the Hardware Jams “Kebob” Weekend Challenge.
It’s new module time!!! I’ve just finished building a Jolin Tabor, which is a chaotic oscillator, perfect for making dirty noises for a dirty kebob challenge. All the melodic sounds (if you can call them that) in this jam were made with the Tabor. It was great fun experimenting with this module and trying to control the chaos.
I also decided to take Sam up on the offer of a falafel option for this challenge and used samples from one of my favourite poets, Harry Baker (youtube.com/@harrybakerpoetry) who has written a poem about falafel spoons (Falafellöffel). I loaded the samples into the MTM Radio Music and triggered them sequentially from the arp unit I built last week. I connected the clock of the arp to a drum trigger on the beatstep so I could manually select the samples I wanted to be played and trigger them from the beatstep.
So in this heavy, dirty jam, we attempt to answer the question “How much falafel is too much falafel?”
This week’s challenge prompt:
Good night out, just got back from that your favourite music gig. You're in the kebaby drooling over that spit of Donner meat (chicken or falafel options available), contemplating if you're pissed/stupid/both enough to steal that spit of meat/falafel and run it home and a song comes on the radio that stops you. Make that song!
Always Learning
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I'm a strong believer in continuous improvement and always trying to learn something new. This week I got to grips with the MTM Radio Music module and the new ARP module I built this week.
My DIY Synth Rules
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I aim to meet the following criteria when adding modules to my synth:
◦ I must have constructed it.
This can be a kit or from scratch but I must have soldered it
◦ The audio signal path should be analog.
I'm trying to avoid digital modules so I can learn more about analog electronics
◦ Learn something new
Try to learn something while constructing the module. Learn about the circuits, experiment with different signal processing options. Be creative.
◦ Have fun
My submission for the Hardware Jams “Kebob” Weekend Challenge.
It’s new module time!!! I’ve just finished building a Jolin Tabor, which is a chaotic oscillator, perfect for making dirty noises for a dirty kebob challenge. All the melodic sounds (if you can call them that) in this jam were made with the Tabor. It was great fun experimenting with this module and trying to control the chaos.
I also decided to take Sam up on the offer of a falafel option for this challenge and used samples from one of my favourite poets, Harry Baker (youtube.com/@harrybakerpoetry) who has written a poem about falafel spoons (Falafellöffel). I loaded the samples into the MTM Radio Music and triggered them sequentially from the arp unit I built last week. I connected the clock of the arp to a drum trigger on the beatstep so I could manually select the samples I wanted to be played and trigger them from the beatstep.
So in this heavy, dirty jam, we attempt to answer the question “How much falafel is too much falafel?”
This week’s challenge prompt:
Good night out, just got back from that your favourite music gig. You're in the kebaby drooling over that spit of Donner meat (chicken or falafel options available), contemplating if you're pissed/stupid/both enough to steal that spit of meat/falafel and run it home and a song comes on the radio that stops you. Make that song!
Always Learning
════════════
I'm a strong believer in continuous improvement and always trying to learn something new. This week I got to grips with the MTM Radio Music module and the new ARP module I built this week.
My DIY Synth Rules
════════════
I aim to meet the following criteria when adding modules to my synth:
◦ I must have constructed it.
This can be a kit or from scratch but I must have soldered it
◦ The audio signal path should be analog.
I'm trying to avoid digital modules so I can learn more about analog electronics
◦ Learn something new
Try to learn something while constructing the module. Learn about the circuits, experiment with different signal processing options. Be creative.
◦ Have fun
