Music Thing Modular Mini Drive

HIPPING EARLY JUNE – A new Music Thing Modular 4hp tube overdrive inspired by the classic drive circuits found in early Moogs. Mini Drive is available for pre-order starting tomorrow.

Pricing and Availability

The module kit for Mini Drive goes on sale on Friday 7th May, 2021.

AE Modular goes DIY for Superbooth@home 2020

AE Modular is Introducing the BRAEDBOARD Module and DIY Kit

BRAEDBOARD

The BRAEDBOARD (no typo!) contains a breadboard area for solderless electronics prototyping so you can experiment with any kind of analog or digital electronics and make your first steps into electronics, starting with simple circuits for beginners to developing your own module.

• The left sockets make all bus signals available (CV, Gate, control, MIDI strt/stop/clock) and can be patched directly from here into your circuit
• The leftmost row of the upper breadboard (the red one) is connected to +5V
• The leftmost row of the lower breadboard (the black one) is connected to ground
• The right sockets contain two units of the usual output resistor of 1k

BRAEDBOARD Module Contains

• The module itself, completely assembled
• A bunch of breadboard wires
• Resistors (10 of each): 1k, 4,7k, 10k, 47k, 100k
• Capacitors (5 of each): 1nF, 10nF, 100nF
• Electrolytic capacitors (2 of each): 10uF, 100uF
• 10 diodes 1N4148
• 10 LEDs red
• 2 transistors NPN (BC547)
• 2 transistors PNP (BC557)
• 2 MCP602 Dual Op-Amp
• 2 NE555 classic timer/oscillator chip
• 2 CD4017 counter
• 2 CD4051 analog switches
• 2 CD40106 Schmitt triggers/inverters
• Plugin-board with 2 potentiometers 50k
• 5 tactile switches

DIY kit

The DIY kit for AE Modular contains all necessary parts to make an AE style module out of your circuit.

The DIY kit requires basic soldering skills; also, you should have the usual tools available for making an electronics board, like soldering station, wire cutter, small pliers, etc.

It contains PCB, front panel, three potentiometers/switches/LEDs, patch sockets, and all mechanical parts. The Kit is designed as a 2-PCB-layer module: The upper PCB carries the pots, switches, etc. and the lower part is a stripboard/perf board where you can solder your circuit.

The connection between both PCBs is made by two multi-pin connectors that make all items on the top PCB accessible at the lower one. So you have some free space for the components of your circuit and can directly connect them here to the according to pins of the control elements.

The PCB for your circuit is included in two versions: First, a stripboard version with +5V and ground in the center, and a perfboard with simple solderpads in 2.54mm grid.

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The front panel has prepared cutouts for all items and you can easily break out the ones you effectively need for your module.

What is next for AE Modular: QUANTIZER & VCADSR are being made ready for production runs and will be released in a few week’s time. Later SWITCHMATRIX 4×4 and FELIQUENCER are scheduled for release.SAMPLE PLAYER, DRONE63, TRIP, MIXCONSOLE, and CVBANK are as well in development.

Freak Full DIY kit

Freak is the perfect filter for the people that cannot decide which Eurorack filter to buy. Now you don’t have to make a decision because you can have them all.

Filters included:​

• Tangents: Steiner-Parker filter (three variations, LP, HP, BP).
• Lateralus: Ladder filter (6, 12, 8 and 24dB options)
• Nurage: Low pass gate/Borg filter 
• Ferox: CMOS filter (LP, HP, BP, Notch)
• Vortex: Russian filter (LP, BP)
• Stabile: State-Variable filter (LP, HP, BP)
• Unstabile Circuit bent State-Variable filter (LP, HP, BP)
• Vorg: MS-20 style filter (LP, HP)
• Rescomb: Resonant Comb filter (Comb+ and Comb-)
• Boomstick: Sallen-Key filter (LP)

The kit comes partially assembled, all the Surface Mount Components are already soldered and the microcontroller comes pre-programmed. You only have to solder Through-Hole components and mount the knobs to start using your filter. The build instructions will be available when the module starts shipping.

Freak is a stereo digital filter that runs most of Vult’s Virtual Analog models. ​This filter has the power of simulating more than 13 analog filters (and some digital). Every model was meticulously developed to capture the soul of the original circuit and make it efficient so it simulates in real-time inside this 12 HP device.

Availability and Shipping

The Freak full DIY kit is available only on pre-order. Shipping starts in November. Full DIY kit allows you to build your own Freak filter. There is also a assembled version you can purchase.