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MFOS Subcommander

Started by mcasemo, November 29, 2014, 09:30:47 PM

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mcasemo

It's not a madbean build, but wanted to share my build of the Music From Outer Space Subcommander, analog guitar synth.  I found a guy on etsy making octagon shaped dice trays out of oak and he made me a box, which is beautiful.  The graphic is something from a Russian artist, Tebe Interesno, a submarine orbiting the earth.  I covered the top in aluminum tape first, then clear waterslide decal over the tape.  I may redo this, i think it needs more contrast and i can't get a good photo of it. 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/173464708/hand-made-octagonal-dice-trays?ref=sr_gallery_1&ga_search_query=octagon+dice+tray&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery

Anyway, still playing with this thing, very fun.  Troubleshooting included missing jumpers (to replace caps for some mods), left off chips, wrong chips, backwards chips, and a bad guitar cable.  My first real troubleshooting using as o-scope, which was pretty satisfying.

cheers,
Mark






Leevibe

Very cool and ambitious build. I love the MFOS stuff! Although Alan has me leaning toward eurorack if I ever get into analog synth world. I like the graphic too!

jubal81

Now that is seriously impressive! I really dig the case and the submarine theme. Great work!
Any chance you'll be making a demo?
"If you put all the knobs on your amplifier on 10 you can get a much higher reaction-to-effort ratio with an electric guitar than you can with an acoustic."
- David Fair

mcasemo

Thanks!  I can't play for sH*T, so i need to farm that video out. Just got back from having a friend test it out, very fun, but not sure i still know how to make it sing.  i need to re-watch the MFOS demo, then go from there.  If i get some basics down with it, i'll video.

cooder

How cool what a wicked machine...!
A demo woud be really cool, I'd be keen to get more of an idea about this!
Sweet work, great look! 8)
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alanp

You are either insanely brilliant, or brilliantly insane :) Good stuff!
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cooder

I just googled and checked out the MFOS site.... great stuff, I'm afraid I've gotta build one too... sigh.... ;)
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Vallhagen

Very cool, Mark!

Glad to see more of this insanebox! Co0ol finnish on yours as well!

Cheers
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Hogharry

Just brilliant! Anything with that many knobs must be good. I'm not sure what it does but I want one.
...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side...

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mcasemo

thanks everyone!  here is the video from ray at MFOS on the subcommander.   


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