[AH] Design your own waveform synths?

[Andrew Scheidler]

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Rob & Heather Williams wrote:

> This may be a topic more appropriate for DH, but haven't
> there been some music machines built that allow you to
> design your own waveform right on a monitor screen?  I've

The S-550 s*mpl*r will do this.  I like to record a raw wave off an
ANALOGUE SYNTH and then mess with the waveform.  It's cool because
wherever you click the mouse, the tiny little piece of wave at the mouse's
X-coordinate is moved (up or down) to the mouse's Y-coordinate.  This
takes a lot of coordination ;)  So I get one full wave cycle on the
screen, then randomly click to make these little specks above and below
the normal wave to give it an interesting nasty bitey timbre.  I think
there's even a little pen & pad you can get for the S-550 that would be
even more fun...

Drew