Isla Instruments ⁽⁸⁾

I have, as many of you probably know, a bit of a thing for retro computing. This doesn't help with my ongoing stack of projects. But it is what it is. Lately I've dived deep into the world of Transputers. I also have a PC104…

These days my day-job keeps me very busy, I enjoy what I do but it does mean I have very little energy left by the end of the week. With that in mind, I've made a decision; I will be pausing synth development (other than…

It's been a while, it's been hectic. A lot has been going on in my life outside of the synth world, and in it. Work on the Quadrowave card has paused for a bit, due to other things, but it's still moving along. Here I've…

Well, the last couple of months have been a challenge. My partner is getting better which is great, but I managed to get COVID and this time it was horrid, 5 weeks on and I'm still not great. I struggle to focus and I'm constantly…

September has not been a good month in many ways. Firstly my partner has been in hospital for a week having some major surgery as a result of her having had cancer 6 years ago and A week before that my mum had a stroke…

Things have been moving with synth projects this last month, first up the Quardowave card for the Isla Instruments Caladan has arrived, I've assembled it, checked power and got blink working on the CPUs. I still have to debug the VCFs but the other parts,…