all this scratching.....

[Kirke Sonnichsen]

The 16-bit Casio FZ-10 (and -10M) had this feature also.
It really is a cool & useful feature!

- Kirke
(all bent out of shape)


>>>>PC/Mac software that allows some kind of back & forth scrubbing would a
>less 
>visceral option.  Sound Sculptor II for the Mac  *sort of* works that 
>way--you can shuttle fwd & back from 1x to 2x speed, but not at less than 1x
>
>speed.  The funky not oft seen tiny Yamaha sampling keyboard, VSS 30, can 
>loop and has a reverse button that you can toggle real time ("emit laereal 
>time reallaer emittime" etc).  <<<
>
>the old cheetah sx16 sampler could be put into a "scratch" mode, with your
>pitchwheel directly connected to sample playback. I had lots of fun with
>this before the beast died on me- must get the 'scope on it. it was supposed
>to help you edit samples but they made it a feature when they realised the
>noise was similar to turntable-type action. the filters tracked amazingly
>well, as I recall; almost no whistle, and much less grief than the laurie
>anderson approach. and in "normal" playback, the pitchbend could be set to
>+/- 500%, for god's sake! reverse pb was by a button on the front panel.
>similar stunts are possible with bits of 1/4" and a mellotron.... I'm
>starting to have an idea that would mean killing the motor and turning the
>flywheel by hand, but I'll have to be careful or I'll get chucked off the
>'tron list..... don- anyone tried anything like this, that you can think of?
>
>d.
>
>
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