EFM Mad Mouse (Preliminary)

tomg tomg at vivid.net
Thu Aug 6 11:02:01 CEST 1998


WARNING! Do not look at this if simple clean designs 
torque your wrench. 

The Mad Mouse is a normalized analog synthesizer designed 
to work with the PAiA Midi2CV8 midi to control voltage converter.
It's designed with a nod to the old PAiA Gnome. Thanks John.
It can be used with any 1 volt per octave (1v/oct) controller 
keyboard ,midi interface or sequencer. It has not been built 
yet but the individual parts have been tested and work together. 
The weak point in the design is the BP VCF. I think I can 
swap a LED/LDR LP VCF without adding too much to the cost.

It sounds better than it looks. Even the VCF. Kinda like the
old bass envelope pedals. Pretty good really. The VCA
is very nice. So nice I may never use a 3O8O for a final 
VCA again.

I get mail from time to time asking where the intermediate 
projects are. So I decided to do the Mad Mouse the design 
rules were fairly loose but I wanted it to cost about $35 
use less than 4 ics and no OTAS. I think I made it but I'm 
not sure yet.

When I get it together I'll post scans & waves.

http://www.tomg.vivid.net/madm/title.html

-tg




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