Mid 1971 my father founded the Paradise Jazzband and has been leading it and playing the piano
until mid 1992.
Here's various information about the band in Dutch.
Midden 1971 heeft mijn vader de Paradise Jazzband opgericht en tot midden 1992 geleid en de piano
gespeeld.
Hier is verschillende informatie over de band.
An overview of the many performances of the Paradise Jazzband from 1972 to mid-1992 in Dutch.
Een overzicht van de vele optredens van de Paradise Jazzband van 1972 t/m midden 1992.
The very first 12″ LP record album that I've bought was “Oxygène” by Jean-Michel Jarre. That probably must have been around 1977 (the album is from 1976). Although I still have a few vinyl LPs available, I don't have my record player anymore (my sister still has it). Meanwhile I …
All about music synthesizers in and around my place.
I got this 1970's amplifier sometime in the 1980's from my late uncle. The power amplifier was broken and he had bought something new at that time. Only these days I read that this probably was a known problem, caused by some wrong …
When starting with the TTSH build last year I prepared the Formant power supply, that I still had from the past, as kind of standalone unit. Meanwhile I realized that this would be a little too big to easily fit into the TTSH case I've built. I decided now to …
A longer time ago I had bought an Edirol PC-50 MIDI keyboard, to be able to connect to some synthesizer programs on my computer:
After a longer break, summer and autumn have passed, I picked up the work on my TTSH again. The TTSH is working, but not ready yet. Of course I still need to build a case for it. I never got to that last year. My idea was to have some space for additional modules below to the TTSH. I came up with following design:
Now that the complete board is done, I could perform a first test. This covers VCO 1, 2 and 3, VCF, ADSR, AR, VCA, noise and sample&hold. At first all seemed to be working, but then I noticed two defects:
Finally the main board is ready. I have now installed all switches, sliders and jacks:
