Wahooo! We finished print mastering UTM by Friday lunchtime, meanwhile I had been doing all my obligatory deliveries (making clone copies of all PT source sessions, predubs & final mix sessions) & thus we managed to finish the project (& three months work) by going home early on a lovely sunny Friday afternoon. Hallelujah!
So on the way home I diverted to my POBox & with perfect timing a box from Analogue Haven was waiting for me with three new modules:

So left to right: the Doepfer A178 Theremin CV Source, A136 Distortion/Waveshaper and on the right, a Plague Bearer. So the next little mission is to work out where these modules should go – the theremin has to be close at hand, so its going in the G6 case I have sitting horizontal… the other two I think are going in a spare G3 rack case that I have, but no doubt a few other modules are going to get moved around at the same time. Its not quite OCD, maybe a better term is OAOD (Obsessing About Order Disorder) or OMSRD (Obsessive Modular Synth Rearrangement Disorder)

Now I’ve got some free time & have rescued my DV camera from storage I’ll try to document a few patches…

Check my latest lofi acquisition; the mighty ALPHAPACER II+

So what does it do? I bought it for not much, thinking it would be perfect to rehouse some kind of little synth/noise generator but before I do that I’ll definitely see what sort of sounds come out of the headphone jack…. As for the lights and earclips? I’m not quite so sure about putting DC voltages across my temples, regardless of the scale of current…. Any volunteers?

thanks Tom, for this link with the scary URL:

“What can be done with alpha control?, Dr Toomin states that first and foremost it can be looked upon as a new and perhaps hitherto undiscovered sensation of pleasure `With feedback’, she says, `individuals are able to discriminate the kind of thoughts, feelings and attitudes which represent an easy flowing with the environment and with their inner selves (the inner synchrony of the brain).’ It is possible, she adds, to learn to function at this level more often, `thus generally making life more comfortable’. Comfort and pleasure aside, Dr Toomin (who manufactures and sells an interesting device called the Toomin Alpha Pacer) suggests that alpha control has an exciting future for meditation and achieving altered states of consciousness. For quickly acquiring voluntary control of such states, she points out that there is much to commend the Toomin Alpha Pacer which not only gives visual feedback of the pattern of brain waves but also introduces audio feedback, a pleasant tone rising and falling in step with the EEG. Users of the Pacer have reported a marked feeling of well-being, to say nothing of a `sense of one-ness with the universe and great joy as they moved into higher frequencies (up to 12 Hz)’.”

Just for the record, inside by the circuit board is a label: serial number 1118 & its made in Eugene, Oregon