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Schottky Logic clock mod

By PieBaron on October 2, 2022 10:42 pm


My first time messing with some logic ICs on a breadboard, I wanted to try some basic electronics and wired this together yesterday. I made a simple rotating clock divider on an old arduino Nano to use as the source inputs, theres 2 buttons, one to shift the clock outputs and one to multiply the time spread between them. I really like switching the wires around between different ICs inputs and outputs, but its a bit too fiddly to do live. So I just "performed" using the 2 buttons.

Theres a 6x  gate inverter chip, 2x2x flip flop chips and a 4x OR chip

It ended up sounding pretty random, but I worked the patch around it, pretty fun, I will probably completely dismantle this and build a new config next, its so easy and fun on a breadboard.

I ordered a midi adapter so I can use it to control my volca sample, but until that arrives im using internal serial com to midi over usb.

oh my - so fun!  this is awesome - been wanting to build something like this...

the sounds are fantastic!

emily wrote:

oh my - so fun!  this is awesome - been wanting to build something like this...

the sounds are fantastic!

Thanks Emily! I used a modified version of this rack patch for this week's weekly beats too, I'm really happy with those werid sounds.

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