All you ever wanted to know about Joystcks Re: [sdiy] cv joystick

[Cynthia Webster]

 Hi Caleb!
 
 Try looking here for some info on Joysticks...
 
 http://www.angelfire.com/music2/theanalogcottage/joypb1.htm
 
 http://www.leto.net/docs/build%20a%20joysstick.txt
 
 
 and Ken Stone's Cat Girl Synth site has some great joystick parts...
 
 http://otherunicorn.0catch.com/synth/modules/joystick.html
 
 http://otherunicorn.0catch.com/synth/modules/mixer.html
 
 http://otherunicorn.0catch.com/synth/
 

 (You'll see that having a centered Joystick output of zero volts
 is easily done)...
 
 Good Luck!
 
 Cynthia
 
 
> on 5/24/02 7:16 PM, Caleb Johnston at caleb_1 at msn.com wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I need some advice/help in building a CV joystick for an analog synth.  It
>> seems pretty easy.  I can do this now by making the pots on the joystick
>> send a CV out the patch cord from 0-10 V.  The only thing I dont like about
>> this is that when the joystick is at rest the output is already 5 V.  Then
>> you can go down or up.
>> 
>> Ideally I would like to plug my patch cord in and have the joystick at rest
>> with 0 V going out.  And then pull down -5 V max and push up + V max.
>> Anyone have a circuit to do this?  Or any ideas??
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
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