Kosmodrome Phase 2 is done. What about Phase 3?
There isn’t really so much of a need to formally define Kosmodrome Phase 3. Phase 1 was all about putting a basic synth together and Phase 2 was extending it in some fundamental ways. At this point, further expansion is mostly a matter of “this seems like an interesting module” or “hm, I need more of xxx”. More “these are things I want to do” than “this is an aspect that needs to be included”.
Anyway, here’s what I informally have in mind:
Percussion
There are no drum modules currently in Kosmodrome. (Kosmogenesis has two Barton drum modules in Eurorack format, and the Kosmo Noise Bells.) Under consideration are:
- NLC Bong0 (quantity 2)
- AO Analog Noise Drum, a development of the Barton Analog Drum
- Thomas Henry Bass++
- CGS Cynare
- Skull & Circuits Metal-O-Tron II (Kosmo adaptation by illucynic if they make the design files available)
SMT
Not a type of module but a construction technology — I want to get back to developing my surface mount skills. The Bong0 above has SMT passives. Other surface mount projects:
- AO Power Display II, two 0805 resistors and an SMT header!
- AO K Drive, a variant of the Music Thing Mini Drive
I might go with SMT designs for some of the other AO modules below.
Miscellany
- AO Ringer, inspired by the Befaco A*B+C
- Kassutronics Slope (slight variant of Ben Rufenacht’s Kosmo version )
- AO HP LPG-Mix, a reMix of Clarionut’s TM_LPG-MIX
- AO Convert, a simple voltage range converter utility
- AO Wave Displacer, a waveshaper
The Long Game
Some even more miscellaneous things, lower priority.
- AO Siegfried, a chaotic oscillator
- AO ADA, my offshoot of LMNC’s 123ADC
- Barton JFET Phaser
- Skull & Circuits Trialogue
I’m not committed to any of the above, and especially the AO things, most of which are nothing more than un-breadboarded designs in KiCad right now. I do have PCBs for Bong0, Power Display, and Slope, so those are likely to be built.
Case
I have nowhere near enough room for all the above modules in my current cases, so I guess there’ll be another case expansion coming up! Maybe two…
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