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Ezzential Electro

06/11/2021 By Jean-Luc Off

Electro Records is working on a collection of 36 vinyl records collaborating with 36 different artists they consider essential to understanding the current electro music movement. They have released the first six records, and you can hear them here: https://www.electro-records.com/catalogo/ezzential-electro/660/. Transpac is one of the…

Updating the shop

06/11/2021 By Jean-Luc Off

As you may have noticed, I am busy merging the old blog into a more user-friendly shop. I still have a lot to do to merge the old blog pages and the products pages. The goal is to let you understand better all my products…

Use a USB keyboard for text entry

23/10/2018 By Jean-Luc Off

Use a standard USB keyboard to enter some text and have it spoken live on VAX (soon on Kaiwa and Emy). The keyboard is connected to a USB gender changer (provided with the last edition of Emy ) which also powers the keyboard. The speech can…

How to add new vocabulary to Talko, the easy way

26/03/2017 By Jean-Luc Off

Previously, I had described here: how to do compress sound using a venerable Windows 3.1 tool: Qbox Pro. The process what quite long to set up and does not always produce good results. Today I discovered BlueWizard from this post. BlueWizard runs on Mac and allows to…

New Talko firmware : VCO mode can play semi-tones

25/02/2017 By Jean-Luc Off

The rev 2 of Talko’s firmware can now play notes over 2 octaves. It may seem obvious to have a 1V/octave CV to note in a VCO mode but this was quite challenging to achieve.  (I may explain the process in another post as it  could…

Talko Eurorack countdown timer

30/11/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

Here is a little countdown timer I developed for Hataken to help in timing mini gigs. It work like this : Choose the amount of time from 0 to 19 minutes with the BANK knob. Start the timer with a gate signal  or by pressing…

3 new sounds banks for Talko

27/08/2016 By Jean-Luc Off

Talko’s code has been updated with 3 new sounds banks : Bank 15 : French Vowels Male (5) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jean-Luc Deladrière (@polaxis)   Bank 16 : English voiced allophones (72) Bank 17 : VCO friendly voiced allophones…