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I built a drum machine last summer. highly recommend it. wasn't analog, but I was building it for different reasons.

I had some help, and some disappointments, but building your own hardware is pretty easy with the Arduino ecosystem.

How far did you get with it? Did you end up abandoning the project?

No, I built it and got it working, but it was a bit fragile. I used a Teensy for the brain, with USB MIDI, and that made it reliant on the cables. Teensys run on a mini version of USB, so the cables aren’t generally that sturdy. I’m going to rebuild it with a more durable foundation.

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