OT. Ideas, questions.

[Ingo Debus]

Mikahil Tomsky wrote:
> and easy to get working? How about just draging a tape head over tape,
> 'scratching' samples on tape ?

Interesting idea. If you use a magnet card or a floppy without shell,
you could perhaps even do "2-D-scratching"? Say, sawtooth recorded at
the bottom and square recorded at the top and other waveforms in
between? So you could morph the sound with the position of scratching.
(AFAIK something similar was possible with the Mellotron: when the
switch was between two positions, a blend of the two sounds could be heard).

But the connection between a tape playback head and a preamplifier is
very sensitive to hum pickup. Maybe an optical solution is easier?

Ingo