[sdiy] tubes, MOVs, etc.

[Glen]

At 12:31 PM 8/15/03 , Grant Richter wrote:

>Found a real interesting book on using "voltage dependent resistors" (MOVs)
>for non-linear function generation. Never saw that before. 

I have this uncanny ability to think of something, and then find out that
someone else has already beat me to it.  :)

For example, before *anyone* had distributed audio CDs containing sounds
meant to be sampled by your sampler, I suggested to a friend that someone
should make and distribute such a thing. Less than a week later, we saw a
notice in a music magazine about a company's plans to produce and
distribute that very same type of product. In similar fashion, I have
suggested other things to my friend, only to read a week later that some
company has just started implementing the idea.

I was just wondering earlier this week, whether there would be any cool
uses for the non-linearities of MOV's in Synth or signal processing
applications. I just hadn't gotten around to getting some appropriate MOV's
to play with yet.

It seems that I'll never be first at anything.  :)


later,
Glen Berry