[sdiy] filter bank and keyboard

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Martin Czech <czech at Micronas.Com>
Subject: [sdiy] filter bank and keyboard
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:14:41 +0100 (MET)

> Vocoder filter banks or general filter banks are nice, but tend to have
> many knobs. Playing in real-time (without analyzer, manually) seems to
> be hard.
> 
> The KORG PS series shows that "one circuit for one key" approach can be
> done. Now, what about having (1st order approach) some keyboard with one
> distinct bandpass filter attached to each key, perhaps with velocity? Now
> one could play timbre melodies.
> 
> Of course, the technical effort is close to ridiculous.  Could be done
> with a few voltage controlled filters as well, a hacked polysynth would do.
> 
> Any ideas, experiences?

You just boggled my mind... just consider a ASM-88... eh, that is 88
ASM-1s, one per key... oh dear... brings a new definition to
patch-cord, doesn't it?

Anyway, going back to what you wrote, I think at least there lies an
improtant exercise here, possibly some new ideas can sprung out.

Cheers,
Magnsu