[sdiy] tubes, MOVs, etc.

[Oren Leavitt]

There are probably MOV based waveshapers in stock at your local convenience store as we talk now :-)
Back on topic, this opens up alot of possiblilities - MOVs, diacs, triacs, scrs, tunnel diodes, PIN diodes, etc.....
Breadboard, here I come!

Oren
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen <mclilith at charter.net>
Sent: Aug 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Grant Richter <grichter at asapnet.net>, john mahoney <jmahoney at gate.net>, 
	Czech Martin <Martin.Czech at micronas.com>, 
	Nils Pipenbrinck <np at inverse-entertainment.de>, 
	Synth-Diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] tubes, MOVs, etc.

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