Ali Naci Erdem

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Poor Man’s Mirror Protractor

10th February 2018 / Leave a Comment

I am collecting vinyl for the last 10 years although I have a rather limited collection of about a 100. I really enjoy listening music on vinyl when I have the time. Large cover art, handling the physical medium, clarity and separation of different instruments and vocals, occasional posters and stickers have always been attractive … [Read more…]

Posted in: Genel Tagged: Cheap, diy, Do it yourself, home made, lp, Mirror, protractor, vinyl

Shadow DOM is still somewhat shady

22nd October 2017 / Leave a Comment

I was recently building a web app using Polymer 2.0 and need to include some SVG assets for wider resolution support. As you may know, Polymer fully supports native shadow DOM with the 2.0 version. When using a shadow DOM context, the style tag will apply the given CSS rules inside the shadow context. This … [Read more…]

Posted in: Genel Tagged: css, dom, JavaScript, js, polymer, Programming, Scope, shadow dom, style, web components

Dumping Korg i5m PCM ROMs – part 2 – Learning to Fail

17th July 2017 / 1 Comment

Previously I have started writing on fixing my korg i5m (part-1). Removing the ROM chips was not fixing the problem but taking advantage of this opportunity, I have started trying to dump them out. The problem was that I was not sure if I am reading correct values or not. After working for hours and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Genel Tagged: adapter, arduino, Desolder, Dsp, fail, i5s, keyboard, Korg, Pcm, Programming, Ram, rom, rom dump, Sampler, synth, synthesis, synthesizer

Dumping Korg i5m PCM ROMs – part 1

18th June 2017 / 1 Comment

Recently I was working on fixing a korg i5m 1995 workstation -that I’ve bought as is on eBay years ago- which has a noise problem in the output. A mechanical but not random weird noise. I also have an i5s (a version with the keyboard and speakers) and I like the samples of that device, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Genel Tagged: adapter, arduino, Breadboard, i5s, Korg, oscilloscope, Programming, reader, reverse engineering, rom, rom dump, Sampler, Sop44, synthesizer
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