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DiscoDOS sells 3 times pretty

It sells your records on the Discogs Marketplace - and looks darn good doing it!

Published: Mar 7, 2025 - Project time: Feb 2025
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No music's on the blog

Why is there no music on this blog? After all it is about music tinkering and stuff! Well, you are right, there should be music and now there is.

Published: Feb 25, 2025 - Project time: Nov 2024
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Multiple Beets libraries on one machine?

This article is about Beets - the best music library manager out there.

Published: Oct 20, 2024 - Project time: May 2022
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J0J0's Git Essentials

What I wish I knew when I started out with Git ...

Published: Feb 24, 2024 - Project time: Jan 2024
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Machinedrum Phones Socket Replace

Back in 2019, P. came to me to help them do some soldering. They had a regular pcb-mount phones socket (6.3 mm, 1/4″) and the legendary Elektron Machinedrum in the luggage.

Published: Feb 8, 2024 - Last updated: Mar 9, 2025 - Project time: Mar 2019
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Budget FX #1 - The Phaser

Sometimes DIY is frustrating: Projects are on-hold because things broke, components are missing and hard to find, and again you are uncertain if the thing you are trying to build will ever do what you want…

Published: Apr 29, 2022 - Last updated: May 6, 2022 - Project time: Oct 2018
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DiscoDOS - The geekiest DJ tool on the planet

Last weekend I released the final 1.0 version of DiscoDOS. Since it got its own website, there shouldn’t be much to say in this blog post. So head over to discodos.jojotodos.net and read all about it!

Published: Mar 27, 2021 - Project time: Mar 2021
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Akai MPC tool updated to v1.2

I just released a new version of my “AKAI MPC 1000 sequence file command line utility”.

Published: Jan 18, 2020 - Project time: Jan 2020
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Schmiede19 MIDILAB

This post developed during the DIY MIDI controller workshop at Schmiede 2019 in Hallein (Austria). It was used as a presentation and documentation tool.

Published: Sep 16, 2019 - Project time: Sep 2019
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Volca Beats JTCTRL

This is a quick one: I extended my Volca Beats Velocititzer with a couple of features.
Download the “Max for Live” device here

Published: May 23, 2019 - Project time: May 2018
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The Charger Tape

Alright, let’s do something boring: Building a battery charger. So why would you do that? I don’t have any idea, just go buy one! ;-) But apparently I had a reason to build one myself.

Published: Mar 26, 2019 - Project time: Nov 2018
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Building MIDI controllers #1 - The Matrix

MIDI controllers are not the most complicated things on earth to build and program.

Published: Nov 25, 2018 - Last updated: Nov 29, 2018 - Project time: Nov 2018
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A broken dream - The making of "Das ADHS"

This is the story of a robots life.

Published: Aug 2, 2018 - Project time: Sep 2017
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seq.py - A command line utility for the Akai MPC

download version 1.2,
clone latest version from github

Published: Jun 1, 2018 - Last updated: Jan 18, 2020 - Project time: Apr 2018
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MPC 1000 service - a Photo-Love-Story

Alright, probably every MPC owner experiences it after a while: Buttons getting sluggish, you have to really bang them hard to still get a function.

Published: Apr 25, 2018 - Project time: Jan 2018
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Volca Beats Velocity - Max for Live edition

I got some feedback on my last post, learned some Max 4 Live and managed to create a device that hacks MIDI velocity sensitivity into the Korg Volca Beats.

Published: Mar 23, 2018 - Project time: Mar 2018
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Volca Beats learns MIDI Velocity

Out of the box the Volca Beats is not velocity sensitive, neither when triggered via MIDI, nor when using the onboard 16-step sequencer.

Published: Feb 24, 2018 - Last updated: Feb 25, 2018 - Project time: Aug 2017
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Circuit bent Yamaha PortaSound PS-1

While searching for circuit-bendable cheap old drum machines on a second hand platform, my sister tells me that there might be something of interest on the attic…

Published: Feb 4, 2018 - Last updated: Apr 30, 2022 - Project time: Dec 2017
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ADHS-Tron - MIDI controlled Korg Monotron

The mission: My friend L's Korg Monotron should become controllable via MIDI from a DAW.

Published: Jan 31, 2018 - Last updated: Apr 30, 2022 - Project time: Jul 2017
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This is my first post. A bright day in internet history.

From now on this site will contribute to the internet with unbelievably cool things!

Published: Jan 21, 2018
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