Homemade sequencers

[Blackie1]

Are homemade analog sequencers difficult to build? How much electronics knowledge is needed? Maybe just something like an 8 step? Just something small. Do they sell kits or anything? I googled it and could find too much.

[enx]

http://curiousinventor.com/store/product/169

[Blackie1]

Great, thanks. I may buy all the parts individually and create my own. How do you think the steps would change to make an 8 step instead of 10?

[enx]

there's a patch cable that you plug into the step that you want it to stop at, like if you plugged the cable in step 10, it'd be a 9-step, etc.

[nathanscribe]

Here's one I'm currently making (my own design):



8 steps, each with LED and step on/off switch.
Internal clock, with rate knob, and output jack.
External clock in jack (trigger it from positive pulses)
CV/Gate out (with both V-trig and S-trig jacks)
Reset button
Manual/Auto switch (with manual step advance button)
Sequence length selector switch (1-8 steps)
Glide knob.
Oh, and a stop/start switch. Haha.

Once it's ready, I'll be happy to make them for interested parties.

[Blackie1]

That looks great^^^^

PM'ed about parts.

Oh, and sequencers need a synth to control them, right? They don't create their own sounds.

[nathanscribe]

Thanks for the compliment 8)

Actually, it's the other way round - the sequencer controls the synth. The sequencer puts out signals that control the oscillator or whatever you route it to on your synths. Some sequencers do come with a built-in mini-synth; or you could think of them as a mini-synth with a built-in mini-sequencer.

Music From Outer Space are good for DIY projects if you're interested in that.

[schmidtc]

The midibox seq doesn't look too difficult to build, relatively speaking. Kits for the guts of the thing can be ordered from smash tv. www.ucapps.de

[mirt]

there are on the web schematics for baby10 sequencer (similar to voice of saturn sequencer), it is easy to do. iv made one for my korg ms10.