TMA-1 (or, Jupiter: and Beyond the Infinite)

“I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that”

Our Deepspace Rhythmic Signal Supercollider. Unstable, Insane, Volatile. There's two angry transformers inside wrestling with a PLL tone decoder. The decoder chip is used as a ring modulator/carrier frequency generator, in turn modulating the ring modulated sound. Yep, it's a ring-modulator, fed into a ring-modulator.

The Anomaly knob sets the carrier frequency, from dirty lo-fi tones to screaming rhythmic Martian anarchy.

The Lux/Aeterna switch doubles the carrier frequency and switches from the analog carrier modulating the input signal and instead assigns the input signal to modulate the carrier. The result is faster modulation and a brighter, sharper timbre.

The mixer section gives independent control of the effect level, clean signal, and blend between the two.

This is the machine to summon the Starchild!

Made by hand, one at a time, in Tucson AZ
True bypass switching
9VDC center negative power jack