{"id":1656,"date":"2014-08-08T14:27:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ninstrument.com\/?page_id=1656"},"modified":"2014-08-08T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:27:53","slug":"modded-pittsburgh-oscillator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/modded-pittsburgh-oscillator\/","title":{"rendered":"Modded Pittsburgh Oscillator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded5.jpg\" alt=\"PittsOSCModded5\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1658\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded1.jpg\" alt=\"PittsOSCModded1\" width=\"130\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pitts-OSC-Modded-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pitts-OSC-Modded-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pitts OSC Modded 2\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded3.jpg\" alt=\"PittsOSCModded3\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded4.jpg\" alt=\"PittsOSCModded4\" width=\"129\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a good Eurorack Oscillator and with a couple of key modifications make it a great performance Oscillator!\u00a0 First remove the single turn potentiometer that controls frequency and replace it with a high precision ten turn potentiometer.\u00a0 This gives you much finer control than even the existing fine tune knob.\u00a0 Speaking of which, since the primary potentiometer is now much finer than the &#8216;fine&#8217; tune knob,\u00a0replace it with a +\/- Octave switch.\u00a0 This makes it easier to move up or down an octave depending how you have set the frequency knob.<\/p>\n<p>You can set the amount you want to move up or down by adjusting these added trimpots for the +\/- octave switch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PittsOSCModded6.jpg\" alt=\"PittsOSCModded6\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This original idea was from <strong>Darwin Grosse (<a href=\"http:\/\/20objects.com\/\">20 Objects<\/a>)<\/strong> who likes to perform as often as he can and uses his Eurorack modular primarily when he does perform. He told me &#8216;I think there is enough room to fit a ten turn pot in this Pittsburgh Oscillator.&#8217; After carefully taking one and cutting out the front PCB I realized there was. I quickly made a couple for him and one for myself and now I must say I am spoiled and wished more Eurorack modules had these ten turn pots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Take a good Eurorack Oscillator and with a couple of key modifications make it a great performance Oscillator!\u00a0 First remove the single turn potentiometer that controls frequency and replace it with a high precision ten turn potentiometer.\u00a0 This gives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/modded-pittsburgh-oscillator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}