I’m happy to announce that System Sound version 4 is now available. It has a few more features than before, enabled by the 3-position slide switches (the previous ones were two-position).
The FM switch has a middle mode, where channel 2 is heard and does FM. The out cut feature (which cuts one channel pair from the line+amp out) now works on either pair. And lastly, the oscillator has a new waveform, a kind of pre-filtered sawtooth/additive saw wave. It sounds good and has a lower frequency range than the sine. Oh, and the noise uses that wavetable so it has more high-frequency content.
But also, i’ve taken some steps back, so this has some less-rational solutions, for instance the ”dac” is the same as in versions 1 and 2, which is pretty shit. The sine wave isn’t very sine-like, but I liked that. Version 3 was more correct.
Due to a bodge and a board mistake, but mostly because I don’t much enjoy making kits, I’ve decided to only sell assembled version 4 System Sounds. I have five in the shop, seven more that I’ll start building later.
Also new is that I’ve named the devices I finished. You can choose the one you prefer. The names were taken from this weeks name-day names (a concept that isn’t global, I understand). Enjoy.
I have two upcoming workshops. The PCBSNR one is already sold out, and the System Sound one is getting there just a bit slower. A re-run of the PCBSNR one is loosely planned for later this spring, so if you want to know about that I suggest that you sign up to my email list. I guess you can follow me on instagram instead but I’m building up the resolve to just delete that shit and go 100% fediverse. You can help out by deleting your account <3.
If you follow my announce list you’ll already have heard about the discount on System Sounds. Just 10%, but it’s something. I want to get rid of the kits I have left before buying new boards.
Oh, a third way (from another big platform I don’t control) is to join my Discord channel. Not much activity (so far only in Swedish), but if people join it and talk I guess I’ll be more active or something.
I just released System Sound 3. It’s very good. Take a look for yourself. I can’t write it up here too. Just click the link.
Yeah this is a new website. It’s still just plain old HTML (apart from the shopify buttons+cart) but new and improved and better looking. Have a look around and let me know if you find something broken.
