Leonardo
Freak out now
The Freak Manifold Filter has been out of stock for a while. I have mentioned before that I have had a hard time to produce more due to...
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Leonardo
- Mar 28
- 2 min
More DIY kits and PCBs
Vorg DIY I have not had the Vorg filter in DIY form in stock for a a long time. The main reason is that creating the build documentation...
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Leonardo
- Mar 4
- 9 min
Designing analog modules is fun, but digital are simpler
Some months ago I posted about my efforts on making modules that are less affected by the semiconductor shortage. It is already 2022 and...
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Leonardo
- Feb 7
- 2 min
Fuser: A simple but effective module
The past month I decided to redesign my Eurorack case/stand. Previously, I have been working with a couple of small cases that I made out...
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Leonardo
- Dec 29, 2021
- 1 min
Modeling the 808 kick drum
I have published on the Wolfram blog a post that covers in detail the modeling of the 808 kick. This is the model that I used for the VCV...
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Leonardo
- Dec 23, 2021
- 1 min
New Freak firmware fixes screen problems
Over the course of the Freak existence I have occasionally receive reports that the Freak screen sometimes does not turn on after...
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Leonardo
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
More stuff for synth nerds
Since the electronics world is on stale in the Vultiverse, I have had the time to add to the store more of my t-shirt designs and also a...
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Leonardo
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Freak update, panels, PCBs and shirts
Sadly, the semiconductor shortage is making impossible form me to get parts to build more Freak modules. This has put my business in...
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Leonardo
- Sep 13, 2021
- 7 min
Making of the VCV Drums
Here I wanted to cover the design philosophy and the process I used when making the VCV Rack Drums sound engine....
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Leonardo
- Jun 20, 2021
- 6 min
Tips for building DIY modules (plus Wolv update)
Even when I have been doing electronics most of my life, it has been only a few years of manufacturing modules. A few things I knew...
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Leonardo
- May 29, 2021
- 1 min
Semiconductor shortage hits Vult
You may already know that there's a semiconductor shortage. There is an interesting Wikipedia article about that: Global Chip Shortage...
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Leonardo
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min
A pack of Wolvs attacks
Short version: you can get a Wolv module HERE Over the last years, I have built a lot of synthesizer circuits. Every time a model a...
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Leonardo
- Dec 19, 2020
- 1 min
A round of interviews
A few days ago it was released an interview I had for the Embedded.fm podcast. If you don't know the podcast, it is a show about...
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Leonardo
- Dec 5, 2020
- 2 min
New firmware for all!
Finally the new firmware is out. If you have read my previous post, you know that there were a few problems to solve. After a few...
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Leonardo
- Nov 27, 2020
- 4 min
Not all Freaks are the same
This is a story about unreproducible bugs and the man decided to solve them. I have been working on the firmware v2.5 of the Freak...
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Leonardo
- Nov 17, 2020
- 1 min
New in the Vultiverse (HW and SW modules)
Over the past year I have been working together with Pyer, the designer of the Geodesics modules for VCV Rack. We have released a module...
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Leonardo
- Apr 4, 2020
- 3 min
The future of the Vult language
In 2014 I started developing the Vult language. This was not my first attempt to develop a language/compiler for my audio experiments....
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Leonardo
- Dec 24, 2019
- 2 min
How did we do this year?
It's been practically a year since we started shipping hardware modules. I have expressed in previous posts the difficulties I see of...
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Leonardo
- Nov 13, 2019
- 2 min
Don't break the mini knobs
A few days ago I received a Freak module for repair/guarantee. The problem was that the mini knobs (attenuverters) were a bit loose and...
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Leonardo
- Nov 7, 2019
- 2 min
Everything new with Freak 2.0
It's been a few months of intense work and finally we are almost ready to officially release the Freak 2.0. Version 2.0 is not a new...
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