[sdiy] Fatman module??

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>I had a most utterly bent idea: what if someone (okay,
>me) were to make a single module that had a complete
>voice on it? Kinda like a Fatman in a single module
>(minus the midi). This would be for things like doing
>polyphonic stuff without a zillion patch cords. 

-Replace all of the pots with the digitally-controlled (3-wire bus) equivalent.
-put the voice card module on a backplane with audio & control I/O on it.
-Add a "master module" with a central MIDI-to-control decoding microprocessor.
-Have a remote control surface that interfaces with the thing to give you
back the knobs & buttons.

A few of us kicked this around off-list some time ago, with voices something
like a hard-patched ASM1...we reached the point that the infrastructure to
make it do all we desired was going to be expensive & hard to build as a
hobby project.  I'm pretty sure the ASM1 documents mention that Gene made
the thing because he wanted a building block for polysynths!

>Whatdaya think? Have I finally gone over the edge? 

Sounds something like an OB-Mx, doesnt it?

Byron Jacquot