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Mellotronium revised…

Posted on February 20, 2012March 5, 2012 by abram

here’s an update on the new additions/approach to the Mellotronium. i’m attempting to redo the SD card routines once i get the functionality added. using the SD library just doesn’t work right when reading byte values at 8kHz. i’ve looked into the WaveHC library with the most success, but had to modify not to use an external DAC. a new wav file playing solution from the SD card will have to be found.

without the clunky SD lib, program space has opened up… a lot of it in fact. now i’ve started using a wavetable. this video just has a single sine wave, but it’s modulate with the LFO and its seven different waveforms not to mention an amplitude modulating ADSR filter.

the breadboard to the side contains an experimental active 2-band EQ (TLO82-based) which needs some work. if anyone has any experience with this, i would love to know why the schematic in the datasheet doesn’t work at all. i wound up having to recall the usage from a different schematic where you make a voltage divider from and peer it into the positive terminal on both opamps. it works… in a way. i think i’ve inverted the wave form or something strange. it also sometimes works better as a radio than an EQ which i think i like. it made for some interesting heterodyning.

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Abram Morphew is an electrical engineer, bedroom musician, composer, naturalist, and amateur scientist. I play music in the the binary marketing show. This blog is a catalog of stuff that I make or bits of information that I think could prove useful later on when memory fails me.

 

I currently hold an Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator license and transmit on the air as K2NXF.

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