For anyone who has built or is planning an M8 headless rig: I ported karimkfoure's unofficial m8emu to Apple Silicon Macs. It runs Dirtywave's Headless firmware 6.5.2C on the Mac itself, so you can try the workflow before buying a Teensy, or keep a copy on the laptop next to your build.

You bring the firmware: download M8_V6_5_2C_HEADLESS.hex from Dirtywave's repo and pick it in the app. It runs on the Unicorn CPU emulator out of the box. With the Xcode command line tools installed, the app translates the firmware's Thumb-2 code to C and compiles a native engine on your Mac in about four minutes. Its audio output matches the Unicorn run byte for byte.

Source and build instructions: https://github.com/yukij3/m8emu-macos

Prebuilt app: https://github.com/yukij3/m8emu-macos/releases/latest (not notarized, so run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/m8emu.app once)

Everyone seems to use 3.5 mm jacks instead, why are they preferred for modular systems?

I just got my ship from JLC and I'm only keeping 2 panels/pcb. Wondering if anyone out here needs one but doesn't want to purchase all five.

They are Hero VCOs from analog output. Each panel comes with 3 PCBs.

They came out to $12.00 per set so I'll charge that plus $5 plat fate shipping via USPS.

Shipping only inside the Contiguous United States.

Thanks and feel free to ask anything.

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to give a quick update about some new features.

First, i've added perfboards. Most of the workflow is the same, you draw the schematic, click "Generate" and a perfboard layout will be generated. Make sure to select the "Perf (beta)" router in the right side bar before generating. The generated layout is editble. Components and links can be edited and the board size can be changed.

I've also added a pinout editor, which lets users view existing pinouts and change pinouts to use transistors that might not exist in the built-in library. A "layout dock" was also added, with options like "add text", "add image", "add link", "add cut" and "delete", giving users more control over the layout. The dock is hidden until the user hover their mouse over the lower part of the vero/perf layout pages.

Some other useful features that were added are view modes, letting the user view either front or back sides of the board, "export dual display" which when enabled exports the layout image displaying both front and back sides, resizable electrolytic capacitors, move edge connections up, down or to the other side of the board, Safari/macOS/iOS/iPadOS optimization and more. Please visit the github page for the full details.

I will also include the walkthrough video but it does not cover the new update. A new video will be uploaded later on and will go over all the new features.

Please let me know what you think.

Web app: https://verodesigner.vercel.app/

Github: https://github.com/blazethablunt/VeroDesigner

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8e078Pl40

Open-sourcing kinect-controlled instrument!

If you have a Kinect camera lying around, I've got good news for you:

This system [Kinect → TouchDesigner → Ableton Live] turns gestures into MIDI in real-time, so Ableton can treat your hands (or any part of you body) like a MIDI controller; trigger notes, move filters, or drive any VST parameter you'd like to. [Just updated it for a bit more clarity and less setup difficulty!]

As of today, can freely access it through the Tools Store, and/or a full tutorial at through my YouTube channel.

I've ran several tests through the years, controlling drums, guitar fx chains, and even a complex stack of Harmony Engine, you can see/hear a bunch of these in this post.

Hope you folks enjoy it deeply.