Thursday, April 14, 2011

The sequencer lives!

This is a long overdue update on the aforementioned Baby 8 sequencer I was building last year. I finished the project in a matter of a couple days and was content enough with it to leave it as is. I still plan to build another with an internal clock and better skip implementation. This one now is kind of finicky with skips, no CV is output when a step is set to skip but the Gate still fires. This is because I didn't include a part of the circuit that would cut the Gate signal when the step is switched off. I was either tired or didn't want to bunch any more wires into an already somewhat clustered space. Anyway I made a video of the thing in action:

The whole project cost me about $200, it can be built for a lot cheaper but I was bored and in a hurry at the same time. That meant I just bought everything at a local boutique store and paid too much for too little. Oh well. Next time, bigger and better!