DIY: Some repairs on Curetronic stuff!
Mixed   July 8, 2023

DIY: Some repairs on Curetronic stuff!

Last year, I got a little rough with three pieces of sound tools. Here and there I had to renew torn cables or cold solder joints.

Matthias Schmidt from Curetronic (a modular music company) in Dresden developed these soundtools for different occasions.

F_O_N
He developed the fully automatable 8-step sequencer synth F_O_N for a Psy-Rave-Worlshop. The nice synth has eight functions like Cutoff / Step1, Reso / Step 2, VCF Env / Step 3, Waveform / Step4, Attack / Step 5, Decay / Step 6, VCO Env / Step7, Seq Speed / Step8. There is also a Start/Stop button, a distortion/booster and a Seq Synth Mode switch. A synth with which I already had a lot of fun.

BUMMMSSsss.....
The Bummms is a small triggerable synth with CV-in and Trig-in, as trigger you can also use the piezo which is glued under the lid.  
The Bumms has 4 switches for On/Off, LFO-REC/TRI, LFO-H/L, NOISE-VCO/VCA and 7 potentiometers for SENS, DECAY, BEND, TUNE, LFO-SPEED, LFO-LEVER and NOISE-LEVEL. These countless possibilities I have already explored to the last detail in many performances.

PING BONG
A small synthesizer, with some charming options like EXT-IN, BONG aka LFO , TÜÜT aka LFO SPEED, DONG aka TUNE and BING aka ??? With the built-in speaker you can immediately cause a stir everywhere in the public space :)


Curetronic   DIY   Fon Synth   2023  

DRKMBNT

music with self-soldered sound tools

DRKMBNT is a live act that performs its music with self-soldered sound tools. The sound tools were mostly developed by friends with whom DRKMBNT regularly meets privately or at soldering festivals. From time to time, DRKMBNT modifies these tools, as in the “Tiny Techno Orchestra” project. The orchestra consists of 10 circuits, each made up of a CMOS chip, a few resistors and capacitors and photovoltaic panels. Lamps are used to make the orchestra sound.

The music of DRKMBNT is improvised, from time to time a video or a live recording is published on the band's homepage, only very rarely are records produced.

DRKMBNT loves improvisation, loves the moments when the orderly turns into the disorderly, when he doesn't know how things will continue musically and technically. But fortunately, new possibilities constantly arise, musically, aesthetically and technically.

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