Solder Workshops!

Solder Workshops!

Well, if it smells like vegan chicken you are holding your soldering iron wrong…

What would Dutch Modular Fest be without soldering! DIY is where it all started, let’s not forget! So we asked Veerle Pennock of Acid Solder Club Utrecht (fuck yeah what a great name!) to organize this.

We have two workshops to offer:

Masterclass Vactrols with Jan De Block (Modular404 label founder / Silent Noise Revolution)

Within the world of Modular Synthesizers and Circuit Bending, Vactrols are extremely useful for turning audio on and off without a click. In addition, Vactrols offer other applications such as Lowpass Gates, or to add Control Voltage inputs to already existing modules. When you can make your own Vactrols yourself the right way, you’ll be flooded with a cascade of possibilities, and for very little money too! The only limit is your own imagination. This masterclass is given by Vactrol doctor Jan De Block, who will teach you all kinds of applications of this indispensable component, and how you can best control it and fit it into an existing circuit. Jan  has already designed and built dozens of modules, installations and projects with vactrols (addictivenoise.com). In collaboration with Veerle Pennock from Acid Solder Club, these two Electro Gurus can explain everything you need to know to get started with Vactrols yourself.

Participation costs €25 pp, and during the workshop each participant receives a breadboard with a set of components and also material to build 2 vactrols themselves. After a short instruction and introduction you can then get started with prototypes and experiment during Dutch Modular Fest!

We have space for 12 participants. You have to be there from the start at 15:30 because of theoretical explanation. You reserve a space by sending a mail to the Acid Solder Club

Design your own synthesizer with Synthux Academy  / Roey Tsemah

A crash course on synth design and development using the Simple Synth DIY kit. Learn how to synthesize, design and program your first synthesizer and continue developing your instrument long after the workshop with video courses and community support!

€199 including a full kit including dozens of components and the Daisy Seed microcontroller.

Click here to reserve your seat

What will we build?

We will build a digital subtractive synth with two oscillators, resonant ladder filter and reverb. But, you could build pretty much any synth or effects box with the kit after the workshop. Check out this video workshop to understand how flexible and dynamic the Simple platform is.

The workshop will be taught by Roey Tsemah, Synthux Academy founder and interactive design teacher at Design Academy Eindhoven and Amsterdam University.

Workshops time table

12:00 – 15:00 – “Build your own synthesizer” with Synthux Academy / Roey Tsemah (Sign up here)

15:00 – 15:30 Break

15:30 – 17:30 – Masterclass Vactrols with Jan De Block (Sign up here)