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Four New Ways to Make Chaos with Caudal

If you have been following the Caudal story, you know that the module started as a simulation of a four-segment pendulum. Over time, I added the Planets and Fish Tank models, and later the Fluctuations mode inspired by the Buchla Source of Uncertainty. With this update, I'm adding four new operation modes that I've been developing over the past months. When I designed the original Caudal models, I…

New firmware for the Freak!

Over the past few months, I’ve made progress developing a new testing platform to help verify the changes I made to the Freak firmware....

Wicked design files are open

A while back, I shared a post about a unique MIDI controller I designed called Wicked . The name is inspired by the layout it uses, known...

I clearly need more BETA testers

The past two releases of the Freak firmware have not been of the quality I expected. Both versions 3.4 and 3.5 had issues because I...

Freak Firmware Update: Move from Version 3.3 to 3.4

EDIT: version 3.3 and 3.4 are unstable. Avoid installing it. Use instead 3.2 or wait for 3.5. Today, we shipped the last module of...

Making the Synthesizers.com modules

A few months ago, I received an intriguing message from Mike Graham who works at Synthesizers.com. He asked if I could port some of their...

Learn Electrical Engineering with Vult

Over the past six months I have been working on developing an Electrical Engineering course for the Wolfram U platform. Wolfram U offers...

Exploring the new Chorus and SEM filter features in the Freak firmware update

It's been a while since the last update to the Freak module. Initially, I believed version 3.1 would be the final update due to space and...

Anima and Feigen available on request

Anima and Feigen modules have been out of stock for a while. The main reason? Well, these modules rely on a Teensy LC board instead of...

New Firmware for Caudal

We have a new version of the Caudal firmware available. This version is a bug fix release. The main fix is that Caudal will work better...

Caudal user manual and firmware

There's an initial version of the Caudal user manual. You can find it in the Caudal page https://www.vult-dsp.com/caudal I aimed to...

Is Nurage-VCA failing for you?

I have received reports about the NURAGE-VCA mode getting stuck in some of the Freak modules shipped recently. Unfortunately, right now...

Caudal is making some chaos

If you have been reading this blog, you may know that I have made multiple prototypes of Caudal. The first revision I made was in 2019...

More prototypes, more Freaks

When I started my Eurorack journey, I made a deliberate choice to design the majority of modules for my rack myself. The motivation was...

Wicked Keys

I love synthesizers. But for me, most of them have a big problem: they have keys. I have been playing guitar since my early teen years. I...

Freak out now

I have mentioned before that I have had a hard time to produce the Freak filter due to the semiconductor shortage. The parts used by the...

Designing analog modules is fun, but digital are simpler

Some months ago I posted about my efforts on making modules that are less affected by the semiconductor shortage. It is already 2022 and...

Fuser: A simple but effective module

The past month I decided to redesign my Eurorack case/stand. Previously, I have been working with a couple of small cases that I made out...

Modeling the 808 kick drum

I have published on the Wolfram blog a post that covers in detail the modeling of the 808 kick. This is the model that I used for the VCV...

New Freak firmware fixes screen problems

Over the course of the Freak existence I have occasionally received reports from testers that the Freak screen sometimes does not turn on...