Info hub for DIMI-A workshop at Aalto University in 1.-5. December 2025. To be updated through the workshop week. Course Assignment: Where: Lectures: Elektor Formant: Youtube channel suggestions:
Here are some details about the Serge modular system owned by the Department of Music Technology (MuTe) at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. I have had the pleasure of servicing it on a few occasions over the past couple of years. This instrument was acquired by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio (YLE) … Read More
I was fortunate to receive funding to renovate Kurenniemi’s Integrated Synthesizer in 2017. The work began in the fall of 2017 and concluded in the summer of 2018. This is not a comprehensive record of the process, but rather a collection of posts that I originally shared on the project’s Facebook page. 20180108 New Power … Read More
I began troubleshooting my EDP WASP clone (Jasper) keyboard, which I built a few years ago. However, the keyboard was not tracking accurately which I thought to be a feature. After servicing EMS and Serge capacitive keyboards, I observed that capacitive keyboards can track both accurately and quickly. This led me to believe that I … Read More
In many of his synthesizers (Sähkökvartetti, Andromatic, DICO, and DIMI-A), Kurenniemi used a bank of fixed band-pass filters as the main audio processing phase in the signal path. All banks on different instruments are slightly different and tuned differently. Kurenniemi liked to tune filters using high-Q settings, typically between 3 and 20. I am not … Read More
Info hub for DIMI-A workshop at Aalto University in December 2024. To be updated through the workshop week. Where: Lecture notes: Band pass filter assignment results: Youtube channel suggestions:
Here is a complete list of DIR units built so far. DIR-1 DIR-2 DIR-3 DIR-4 DIR-5 DIR-6 DIR-7 DIR-8
DIR DICO is currently in the beta testing phase. Hopefully, v5.1 is the final hardware design. Firmware is still under development, but legacy functionality is fully implemented. The audio signal chain is mostly cloned from the original DICO. Frequency dividing network and sequencer logic are implemented in software. The panel layout (white panel) is practically … Read More