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Sound-Art

2012-10-20T06:38:29Z

VacoLoco: Initial page creation

Sound-art where a spanish based hardware/software development company.
They formed in 2001 and launched the [[Chameleon]] at Frankfurt [[Musikmesse]] in 2002. The [[Chameleon]] is a DSP based platform capable of hosting different applications, or skins.
These range from reverbs and delays to vocoders and fully fledged virtual analogue synthesisers.

A second [[Chameleon]] was in development in 2006 with additional features, like faster CPUs, graphic display, etc but Sound-art closed their doors in late 2006 due to lack of sales.

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Chameleon

2012-10-20T06:32:54Z

VacoLoco: added catagories

The [[Sound-Art]] Chameleon was a DSP development platform housed in a 1U 19" rack format.
It allowed developers to quickly create synthesisers and share their work in the community.

The Chameleon has a motorola coldfire for it's main CPU and a 56000 based DSP for the audio processing engine. It has a stereo input and stereo output as well as MIDI in and out.
Additionally there is a serial cable to allow developers to develop and debug their applications.

The software Development kit (SDK) was developed by [[Sound-Art]] and was available to download from their site. This was a completely integrated development environment (IDE) which allowed coding in C, C++ and DSP assembler to happen all in the same window, a simple "compile and upload" button made for rapid development on the hardware.

Each application was referred to as a 'skin', there are 13 skins available
: Entity, an open source virtual analogue synth 6 note polysynth with a filter modelled on the MS20 filter
: SouthPole, an open source filter band SP delay effect application
: Monowave II, an open source monosynth based on the [[Monowave]] with extra features
: Phoenix, a polyphonic version of the Monowave II
: Infiltrator, a powerful vocoder
: Fahrenheit, a dance module, consisting of two TB303 clones, a TR808 and TR909 clone along with effects and mixer.
: Australis, a powerful fully features VA polysynth.
: Amp-o-matic, a guitar module allowing emulation of valve amplifiers, speaker cabs and effects
: Chromasonic, a flexible multi-fx system
: FX designer, a creative delay based effect unit
: Roomverb M1, a high quality reverb unit
: Face-1, a phase distortion synthesiser
: Looper, a looper machine.

A second Chameleon was developed (in prototype form) with USB, SD card, graphic display and additional inputs and outputs but poor uptake of the concept eventually forced the closure of [[Sound-Art]]. Since their closure [[Paul Maddox]] has hosted their website on his synth.net server (http://chameleon.synth.net/english/skins/entity/).

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Chameleon

2012-10-20T06:32:21Z

VacoLoco: preliminary page with information.

GorF

2012-10-20T06:12:17Z

VacoLoco:

In 2008 [[Paul Maddox]] wanted to start building synthesisers again, and not having much in the way of test equipment Paul built a simple 8 step sequencer. This was called GorF and was named after his love of 80's arcade games.

Paul put the video of the early version up on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df8Q0wIoSRM) which received over 1000 hits within a month. GorF quickly gathered a lot of interest on the internet and won a competition for innovation winning him a zoybar guitar.

At this point Paul decided to make a kit of the project and using the free PCB CAD software called Eagle created a small PCB, 100mm by 80mm. This had all the switches and displays on of the prototype and added memory to GorF.
from 2008 to 2011 Paul added a number of features and enhancements and published the code, schematics and PCB files under the GPL license. [[Peter Kvitek]] added the Bank Play mode and made a few performance enhancements also.

GorF has the following features -
:8 steps per pattern
:each step can have a different note length
:each step has -
:* Note value
:* Step Length
:* Note Velocity
:* 2 MIDI CCs (user definable)
:2 patterns can be chained to create 16 step patterns quickly
:powerful bank play mode which allows up to 8 patterns to be chained with the ability to repeat a pattern a number of times before moving the next.
:Updatable via MIDI sysex

over 250 kits have been sold since their release in 2009 and kits continue to sell under the [[VacoLoco]] brand.

Paul has used the funds raised by the sale of the kits to build and develop other projects like [[Tron]] and [[Zira]] and he is currently developing a [[Euro]] [[Modular]] version with CV and gate outputs.

GorF

2012-10-20T06:11:40Z

VacoLoco:

In 2008 [[Paul Maddox]] wanted to start building synthesisers again, and not having much in the way of test equipment Paul built a simple 8 step sequencer. This was called GorF and was named after his love of 80's arcade games.

Paul put the video of the early version up on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df8Q0wIoSRM) which received over 1000 hits within a month. GorF quickly gathered a lot of interest on the internet and won a competition for innovation winning him a zoybar guitar.

At this point Paul decided to make a kit of the project and using the free PCB CAD software called Eagle created a small PCB, 100mm by 80mm. This had all the switches and displays on of the prototype and added memory to GorF.
from 2008 to 2011 Paul added a number of features and enhancements and published the code, schematics and PCB files under the GPL license. [[Peter Kvitek]] added the Bank Play mode and made a few performance enhancements also.

GorF has the following features -
:8 steps per pattern
:each step can have a different note length
:each step has -
:* Note value
:* Step Length
:* Note Velocity
:* 2 MIDI CCs (user definable)
:2 patterns can be chained to create 16 step patterns quickly
:powerful bank play mode which allows up to 8 patterns to be chained with the ability to repeat a pattern a number of times before moving the next.
:Updatable via MIDI sysex

over 250 kits have been sold since their release in 2009 and kits continue to sell.

Paul has used the funds raised by the sale of the kits to build and develop other projects like [[Tron]] and [[Zira]] and he is currently developing a [[Euro]] [[Modular]] version with CV and gate outputs.

GorF

2012-10-20T06:09:36Z

VacoLoco: Created page with "In 2008 Paul Maddox wanted to start building synthesisers again, and not having much in the way of test equipment Paul built a simple 8 step sequencer. This was called GorF a..."

In 2008 [[Paul Maddox]] wanted to start building synthesisers again, and not having much in the way of test equipment Paul built a simple 8 step sequencer. This was called GorF and was named after his love of 80's arcade games.

Paul put the video of the early version up on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df8Q0wIoSRM) which received over 1000 hits within a month. GorF quickly gathered a lot of interest on the internet and won a competition for innovation winning him a zoybar guitar.

At this point Paul decided to make a kit of the project and using the free PCB CAD software called Eagle created a small PCB, 100mm by 80mm. This had all the switches and displays on of the prototype and added memory to GorF.
from 2008 to 2011 Paul added a number of features and enhancements and published the code, schematics and PCB files under the GPL license. [[Peter Kvitek]] added the Bank Play mode and made a few performance enhancements also.

GorF has the following features -
:8 steps per pattern
:each step can have a different note length
:each step has -
:* Note value
:* Step Length
:* Note Velocity
:* 2 MIDI CCs (user definable)
:2 patterns can be chained to create 16 step patterns quickly
:powerful bank play mode which allows up to 8 patterns to be chained with the ability to repeat a pattern a number of times before moving the next.
:Updatable via MIDI sysex

over 250 kits have been sold since their release in 2009 and kits continue to sell.

Paul has used the funds raised by the sale of the kits to build and develop other projects like [[Tron]] and [[Zira]] and he is currently developing a [[Euro]][[Modular]] version with CV and gate outputs.

VacoLoco

2012-10-20T05:53:27Z

VacoLoco:

in 2000 [[Paul Maddox]] (UK) created Modulus Electronics which was little synth company which produced a small 25 unit run of the [[Monowave]] synthesiser.

He did the very promising and now open source, Monowave II for the DSP based [[Chameleon]] platform. He also made a polyphonic version of the Monowave for this platform called Phoenix. Both of his DSP based projects included a unique filter slope parameter to mix the output after the first pole and the fourth pole. Thus giving a 2 pole (=12 dB/octave) bandpass. very much like the Oberheim filters. But with the character of the [[Moog]] [[ladder]] [[filter]]. But due to the break-down of the Chameleon hardware builder in Spain, he stopped work on this.

For a few years Paul quit all activities on synth building and playing. He started to play electric bass in a band.

In 2009 Paul started to build electronic music projects again, the first of these was [[GorF]] a simple 8 step sequencer under the brand name of [[VacoLoco]].
Since then he has produced several other projects, including [[Tron]] a small drum pattern programmer and [[Zira]] a small monosynth based on the [[Korg]] [[NJM2069AD]] VCF/VCA chip.

He also made music under several names like:

Paul Anthony

Mr Zorg

Asylum

He now plays keyboards for a goth/alternative rock band called Her Dark Embrace (http://www.HerDarkEmbrace.com & http://facebook.com/HerDarkEmbrace).
you can hear extracts of his own music here - http://vacoloco.net/mymusic/

Paul also runs a huge synth web project http://www.synth.net which allows synth users to upload music, videos, files and blogs for free.

He is very much into [[Wavetable]] Synths like [[PPG]], [[Waldorf]] and this was the inspiration for the [[Monowave]]

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Modulus Monowave

2012-10-20T05:52:55Z

VacoLoco:

[[Modulus]] Monowave

[[monophonic]] simple Synthesizer with 2 digital oscillators with 256 waveshapes from many well known [[Wavetable]] synths.
These waveshapes are not wavetables. Some of the waveshapes can be found for example in the [[PPG]] wave range of synths.
The filter is a [[Moog]] clone. The 2 ADSRs are fully analog.

Not based on the [[Waldorf]] [[Microwave]] (very different technics, but sharing all the classic PPG waveshapes).

Best mix of the digital waveshapes and a strong filter, but it's a bit limited like

LFO from 0.1hz to around 10 Hz (later added software LFO because of user requests)

On the other hand the Arpeggiator is way more tight to midi clocks and speed changed then all others by pro companies.
And it starts the arpeggio allways with a quantise function (depending on the used clock ratio) on the right midi clock beat.
This is unique.

Pictures and sounds are available from http://vacoloco.net/synths/monowave/

Made by [[Paul Maddox]]

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Modulus Monowave

2012-10-20T05:52:09Z

VacoLoco:

[[Modulus]] Monowave

[[monophonic]] simple Synthesizer with 2 digital oscillators with 256 waveshapes from many well known [[Wavetable]] synths.
These waveshapes are not wavetables. Some of the waveshapes can be found for example in the [[PPG]] wave range of synths.
The filter is a [[Moog]] clone. The 2 ADSRs are fully analog.

Not based on the [[Waldorf]] [[Microwave]] (very different technics, but sharing all the classic PPG waveshapes).

Best mix of the digital waveshapes and a strong filter, but it's a bit limited like

LFO from 0.1hz to around 10 Hz (later added software LFO because of user requests)

On the other hand the Arpeggiator is way more tight to midi clocks and speed changed then all others by pro companies.
And it starts the arpeggio allways with a quantise function (depending on the used clock ratio) on the right midi clock beat.
This is unique.

Made by [[Paul Maddox]]

[[category:Hardware]]
[[category:Synthesizer]]

Modulus Monowave

2012-10-20T05:51:45Z

VacoLoco:

[[Modulus]] Monowave

[[monophonic]] simple Synthesizer with 2 digital oscillators with 256 waveshapes from many well known [[Wavetable]] synths.
These waveshapes are not wavetables. Some of the waveshapes can be found for example in the [[PPG]] wave range of synths.
The filter is a [Moog] clone. The 2 ADSRs are fully analog.

Not based on the [[Waldorf]] [[Microwave]] (very different technics, but sharing all the classic PPG waveshapes).

Best mix of the digital waveshapes and a strong filter, but it's a bit limited like

LFO from 0.1hz to around 10 Hz (later added software LFO because of user requests)

On the other hand the Arpeggiator is way more tight to midi clocks and speed changed then all others by pro companies.
And it starts the arpeggio allways with a quantise function (depending on the used clock ratio) on the right midi clock beat.
This is unique.

Made by [[Paul Maddox]]

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[[category:Synthesizer]]

Paul Maddox

2012-10-20T05:49:04Z

VacoLoco:

-> [[Modulus]]

-> [[VacoLoco]]

maker of [[Modulus]] [[Monowave]] and some [[Wavetable]] related synth projects, now trading as [[VacoLoco]] selling more electronic music devices.

Paul Maddox

2012-10-20T05:48:54Z

VacoLoco:

-> [[Modulus]]
-> [[VacoLoco]]

maker of [[Modulus]] [[Monowave]] and some [[Wavetable]] related synth projects, now trading as [[VacoLoco]] selling more electronic music devices.

Modulus

2012-10-20T05:47:35Z

VacoLoco:

[[Paul Maddox]] now runs [[VacoLoco]] please see that page for more information.

#REDIRECT [[VacoLoco]]

Modulus

2012-10-20T05:47:22Z

VacoLoco:

Paul Maddox now runs [[VacoLoco]] please see that page for more information.

#REDIRECT [[VacoLoco]]

VacoLoco

2012-10-20T05:45:58Z

VacoLoco:

in 2000 [[Paul Maddox]] (UK) created Modulus Electronics which was little synth company which produced a small 25 unit run of the [[Monowave]] synthesiser.

He did the very promising and now open source, Monowave II for the DSP based Chameleon platform. He also made a polyphonic version of the Monowave for this platform called Phoenix. Both of his DSP based projects included a unique filter slope parameter to mix the output after the first pole and the fourth pole. Thus giving a 2 pole (=12 dB/octave) bandpass. very much like the Oberheim filters. But with the character of the [[Moog]] [[ladder]] [[filter]]. But due to the break-down of the Chameleon hardware builder in Spain, he stopped work on this.

For a few years Paul quit all activities on synth building and playing. He started to play electric bass in a band.

In 2009 Paul started to build electronic music projects again, the first of these was [[GorF]] a simple 8 step sequencer under the brand name of [[VacoLoco]].
Since then he has produced several other projects, including [[Tron]] a small drum pattern programmer and [[Zira]] a small monosynth based on the [[Korg]] [[NJM2069AD]] VCF/VCA chip.

He also made music under several names like:

Paul Anthony

Mr Zorg

Asylum

He now plays keyboards for a goth/alternative rock band called Her Dark Embrace (http://www.HerDarkEmbrace.com & http://facebook.com/HerDarkEmbrace).
you can hear extracts of his own music here - http://vacoloco.net/mymusic/

Paul also runs a huge synth web project http://www.synth.net which allows synth users to upload music, videos, files and blogs for free.

He is very much into [[Wavetable]] Synths like [[PPG]], [[Waldorf]] and this was the inspiration for the [[Monowave]]

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VacoLoco

2012-10-20T05:44:43Z

VacoLoco: Created page with "in 2000 Paul Maddox (UK) created Modulus Electronics which was little synth company which produced a small 25 unit run of the Monowave synthesiser. He did the very promi..."

in 2000 [[Paul Maddox]] (UK) created Modulus Electronics which was little synth company which produced a small 25 unit run of the [[Monowave]] synthesiser.

He did the very promising and now open source, Monowave II for the DSP based Chameleon platform. He also made a polyphonic version of the Monowave for this platform called Phoenix. Both of his DSP based projects included a unique filter slope parameter to mix the output after the first pole and the fourth pole. Thus giving a 2 pole (=12 dB/octave) bandpass. very much like the Oberheim filters. But with the character of the [[Moog]] [[ladder]] [[filter]]. But due to the break-down of the Chameleon hardware builder in Spain, he stopped work on this.

For a few years Paul quit all activities on synth building and playing. He started to play electric bass in a band.

In 2009 Paul started to build electronic music projects again, the first of these was [[GorF]] a simple 8 step sequencer under the brand name of [[VacoLoco]].
Since then he has produced several other projects, including [[tron]] a small drum pattern programmer and [[Zira]] a small monosynth based on the Korg [[NJM2069AD]] VCF/VCA chip.

He also made music under several names like:

Paul Anthony

Mr Zorg

Asylum

He now plays keyboards for a goth/alternative rock band called Her Dark Embrace (http://www.HerDarkEmbrace.com).
you can hear extracts of his own music here - http://vacoloco.net/mymusic/

Paul also runs a huge synth web project http://www.synth.net which allows synth users to upload music, videos, files and blogs for free.

He is very much into [[Wavetable]] Synths like [[PPG]], [[Waldorf]] and this was the inspiration for the [[Monowave]]

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Modulus

2012-10-20T05:43:21Z

VacoLoco: Updated with redirect, content moved

#REDIRECT [[VacoLoco]]

Paul Maddox now runs [[VacoLoco]] please see that page for more information.

Modulus

2012-10-20T05:40:16Z

VacoLoco: Update/expansion of information

Modulus used to be [[Paul Maddox]] (UK) little synth company doing a 25 unit run of the [[Monowave]].

He did the very promising and now open source, Monowave II for the DSP based Chameleon platform. He also made a polyphonic version of the Monowave for this platform called Phoenix. Both of his DSP based projects included a unique filter slope parameter to mix the output after the first pole and the fourth pole. Thus giving a 2 pole (=12 dB/octave) bandpass. very much like the Oberheim filters. But with the character of the [[Moog]] [[ladder]] [[filter]]. But due to the break-down of the Chameleon hardware builder in Spain, he stopped work on this.

For a few years Paul quit all activities on synth building and playing. He started to play electric bass in a band.

In 2009 Paul started to build electronic music projects again, the first of these was [[GorF]] a simple 8 step sequencer under the brand name of [[VacoLoco]].
Since then he has produced several other projects, including [[tron]] a small drum pattern programmer and [[Zira]] a small monosynth based on the Korg [[NJM2069AD]] VCF/VCA chip.

He also made music under several names like:

Paul Anthony

Mr Zorg

Asylum

He now plays keyboards for a goth/alternative rock band called Her Dark Embrace (http://www.HerDarkEmbrace.com).
you can hear extracts of his own music here - http://vacoloco.net/mymusic/

Paul also runs a huge synth web project http://www.synth.net which allows synth users to upload music, videos, files and blogs for free.

He is very much into [[Wavetable]] Synths like [[PPG]], [[Waldorf]] and this was the inspiration for the [[Monowave]]

[[category:Manufacturer]]