Soundmachines NS1nanosynth, User Manual

Page 1: ...soundmachines NS1nanosynth User s Manual V1 0 November 2015 by Davide Mancini Designed and crafted in Italy...

Page 2: ...a curious guy like yourself Do not connect the unit directly with devices other modular products that could source voltages greater than 5V signals without external protection This can lead to malfunc...

Page 3: ...he NS1 could be used alone or integrated with other instruments circuits and devices to build an articulated modular patch augmented by the potential virtual modules that you can code on the Arduino A...

Page 4: ...ng the middle section take a moment to learn the logic of the module s connections It s quite simple to understand that the lower row of headers is linked to the main modules the ones with potentiomet...

Page 5: ...available 5V input Wherever you are you probably have at hand one of the following an USB port A smarthpone USB recharger A USB power bank This last point bring us quickly and directly to the point 4...

Page 6: ...er for starter that the timbre of a sound could easily modify the pitch until unrecognizable So Pitch is the tone of the sound what we associate with the concept of note Not all sounds have a defined...

Page 7: ...e strings leave space to a quick reduction of the note s volume in the first few millieconds At this point if the player keeps his finger on the key the note will slowly fade otherwise the end of the...

Page 8: ...fig 6 Pitch timbre and loudness equivalent blocks fig 7 Pitch timbre and loudness NS1nanosynth modules...

Page 9: ...fig 8 modulations equivalent blocks fig 9 modulation NS1nanosynth modules...

Page 10: ...e end of the manual the rather simple procedure to re calibrate the VCO is described Manual controls The VCO has a TUNE knob that sets the oscillator s frequency This frequency is summed with the cont...

Page 11: ...distortion at the end of the CV range When the control voltage reach 4 5V the INITIAL knob a little before three o clock position the VCA starts to distort with a very pleasant analog overdrive tone...

Page 12: ...anosynth from 0 to 5V If you connect this directly i e without attenuation to the VCA CV input you will obtain as designed an overdrive in the highest 0 5V zone You can use the ATTENS or the CVDIV mod...

Page 13: ...without degradating its qualitites General concept a buffered output will not suffer from a wide range of input impedances adn could also drive small loads like LEDs headphones etc RIBBON CONTROLLER...

Page 14: ...in some famous forums the voltage at the output of a summing static active circuit will NEVER go beyond the power supply rails Whit this in mind we designed two simple mixers types one with the impli...

Page 15: ...g 10 Sample and Hold The track and hold functionality instead of taking a quick sample of the incoming signals follows reflects to the output the same signal as long as the TR track input is high and...

Page 16: ...to 64 The RES reset input allows to restart the internal counter This block could be used to generate sub oscillations from a VCO output triggers that will be likely processed with logic gates etc Man...

Page 17: ...and both Want to create a couple of pseudo VCA Those works really well if you can stand distorted waves interesting tansients and in general you don t expect a f cking SSL channel strip from a 200 buc...

Page 18: ...ignal to be used with the digital part of the synth forcing VCF and VCA offsets in the CV ins and finally implementing a user interface for the Arduino platform Manual Controls the three momentary but...

Page 19: ...S1nanosynth Now you can find a series of patch sheets that will guide you through different basic configurations Take your time to analyze tweak and use those as a starting point in your explorations...

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Page 25: ...Customizing your NS1nanosynth mounting the bottom case VCO calibration procedure Arduino bootloader restore Mods and hacks...