Sound Byte Labs

@soundbytelabs.net

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Engineer. Artist. Dog dad. I love all things music and circuits! I keep it positive.

A hand written note reading, "The feeling of remembering why something is your favorite thing over and over again." I wrote this in a quiet moment at a Dead & Company show
A screen recording of a synthesizer demo running in a Linux terminal
Poster for Chicago Synth flea market at Marz Community Brewing in Bridgeport. Sunday March 15, 2026 1-6PM
A short video of me performing on a demonstration chord sequencer built on Daisy Pod with custom firmware. The signal chain includes a 6 voice super saw, SVFs, auxiliary bass oscillator, stereo panning and smooth parameter interpolation
Close up of lower bottom Gatekeeper PCB showing the Sound Byte Labs logo
Make Noise Bruxa Eurorack module, a time/filter experiment
PO-24 Office pocket operator hooked into a modular synthesizer. The input has a sync signal and the output is stereo audio
A close up of the bottom lower section of the Gatekeeper PCB. The text reads: Sound Bite Labs. Gatekeeper Logic Board v0.9. Copyright 2026 Michael Skiles.
A 3 color pixel art drawing of a spaceman holding a flag that reads "SBL". The background is green like a printed circuit board. The outlines are white silkscreen and there are gold accents.
Mutable Instruments Warps Eurorack module seated next to Plaits
A UML state diagram showing the boot sequence of a Eurorack utility module as well as modeling the "Perform" and "Menu" state operation. The different performance modes shown are: - Gate - Trigger - Toggle - Divide - Cycle
Make noise 0-Ctrl and 0-Coast patched together
A "portable" synthesizer and sampler set up with a Bluetooth speaker. The instruments are Make Noise 0-Ctrl, 0-Coast, Moog Mavis, Teenage Engineering EP-40 Riddim. A dance beat is playing in the video
A modular synth with 198HP of 3U space and 62HP of 1U. It's completely full.
Teenage Engineering K.O. II sampler
A modular synthesizer with a lot of patch cables plugged in
A 32HP Eurorack case with Mutable Instruments Ears, Make Noise Pressure Points, Doepfer dual sample & hold, and ALM Pip Slope. The case acts as a synthesizer control surface
Album cover of You're Dead by Flying Lotus
A letter addressed to the Illinois attorney general
Picture of a modular synthesizer with the patch as described
Sound byte libs typical application architecture diagram
Screenshot of a text message reading: I just listened, sounds relaxing Oh, nevermind, it got all exotic
A freshly opened copy of Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young
Nymfi beer from Naxos, Greece!
Astronaut "always has been" meme. One astronaut says "the native simulator is just x86 under the hood" while the other points a gun at his back and says "always has been"
A screenshot of code. The code is the main function for an embedded hello world LED blinker in C++. The code is: #include "sbl_config.h" #include <sbl/api/widgets.hpp> int main() { SBL_PLATFORM_INIT(); sbl::api::widgets::Blinker blinker(SBL_LED_PIN, true); // Board default LED, active-high blinker.start(500); // 500ms interval while (true) { blinker.update(); } }
An overhead view of a modular synth case. The case is an Intellijel Palette 62HP. The notable modules are Pamela's Pro Workout, Morphagene, Rings, Beads, and MFD
A bell curve format meme making a joke about clock sources in modular systems
Small Signal Audio Design by Douglas Self
Plaits and Beads Eurorack modules
A Mutable Instruments "Beads" texture synthesizer box
Sam taking a breather before heading down the mountainside
An Intellijel Palette 4U 62HP Eurorack case filled with synth modules. Left to right, top to bottom: - Passive Low Pass Gate - Duatt - Stereo Line in 1U - Quadratt - Pam's Pro Workout - Xaoc Zadar - Doepfer Noise + S&H - Morphagene - Maths
Close up view of the raspberry pi 5 top side. Showing several chips and peripherals with neatly laid wire routes
2 Doepfer Eurorack modules lying on their sides. The modules only use through hole components and all ICs are mounted in sockets. The modules are Dual Sample & Hold and Noise + Random
A sine wave, clipped on the troughs
Video showing a prototype Eurorack wave shaper module. The module has no faceplate and consists of 2 PCBs stacked on another. There is a lightly quickly changing between green and red to indicate voltage on the output.
Drumboy pocket sized drum machine from Randomwaves. Features a color screen and capacitive touch buttons
A close up of the Shapeware 1U logic board top. The op amp chip is removed to reveal an unwanted blob of solder hiding beneath it
Shot of the interface PCB in a vice. The solder blobs are nice and round
Small purple PCBs with exposed contacts for surface mount components. The boards are labeled "Shapeware 1U Interface 1.0" and "Shapeware 1U Logic 1.0"
Isometric view of the module, with a red cap on the button and a knob on the pot
A Moog Mavis in its plastic case. There are several patch cables attached
3D render of the analog logic board showing a TL074 IC and supporting components
A colorful geometric drawing on unfolded origami. Lit to show the shadows on the folds
Screenshot of a KiCAD drawing showing a 10-pin header bringing in Eurorack + and - 12V and feeding a 5V regulator. Decoupling capacitors and protection diodes are shown
A momentary button with an RC filter. The circuit also features a pull-down resistor
2 chip tester sockets, with one showing a 8-SOIC chip installed
Album cover of Grateful Dead classic Red Rocks 7/8/78
Oscilloscope showing an oscillator output (red) being fed into the button module CV IN. The output is a square wave (green)
New oscilloscope module
Comparison shot next to an Intellijel module showing the rough finish of the homemade module
Close up showing the screw and standoff of the homemade push button module
The homemade push button/cv to gate converter. The aluminum was finished by hand with a rough grit sandpaper
Why can't you just be normal meme with a modular synth pasted over the kids face
Side view of a patched Eurorack case with the homemade module in front left
Close up of Intellijel palette case with homemade 1U module
Closeup shot of the push button module with an aluminum faceplate
Push button module showing the 2 boards stacked with faceplate on top
Photo taken from the Chicago riverwalk near the Michigan Ave DuSable Bridge, showing the wrigley building