[sdiy] Don't Touch

[tpaddock at seanet.com]

- Electrostatic, as in picking up static fields. 
Scuff shoes on carpet, comb hair, rub a cat with 
whatever you rub a cat with. I've used a 
floating cmos gate to detect static charge. 
(The first time was an accident)

- Air currents. Detect with a tiny thermistor 
above a warm resistor. Or candle/photocell. 


>Hire someone to control the synth for you. You 
>don't touch the synth. You just yell commands:
>-Turn the cutoff knob of filter two to 86.4%!
>-Aye, sir!

I'd love to see this. Like a submarine commander 
and 5-10 gear operators. Interconnected unstable 
signal paths. 
"Station One, delay audio from bus B 50mS, route 
thru VCA with 80% AM at 20.25Hz sine. Patch to 
bus C and gain up till loop is sub-critical. 
Station Two, prepare for envelope followed 
low-pass, moderate res, bus C to bus D, envelope 
source is A."

Or maybe like 5 operators all talking synth-jargon 
at the same time. Like in the movie Dark Star when 
they're blowing up a planet and all talking 
technojibberish. I love that. Sorry, getting OT.

Toby Paddock