[sdiy] What the heck is this?

[R. Drake]

in the past, i've been much more involved w/ building odd acoustic
instruments, rather than electric...  i always try to tape the 2nd or third
time i sit down and try to play a new creation.  that's when my ears are
freshest to meet the instrument on it's own terms, or when i'm most alive to
the particular sonic possibilities.  as time passes, i become more
proficient at recreating past "successful" sounds/gestures, but it takes
real discipline to continue exploring.  when i run out of new innovative
sounds, it's not usually that i've reached the instrument's inherent
limitations, but that my taste or memory starts imposing itself...

lbd





on 3/19/03 7:59 PM, Gene Stopp at gene at ixiacom.com wrote:

> I had a silly thought that thumbwheel-switch attenuators might be fun, and I
> liked the Vibrator in the output section :) More facetious than anything,
> really.
> 
> Sometimes I feel like designing and building something that is *not* the
> same old VCO-VCF-VCA chain. Kinda like Serge or Buchla modular in style,
> with funny-named modules, where I would be back to the "I wonder what this
> thing does?" stage in my synth career. Back before I had this stuff
> memorized, I could sit for hours listening to pulse width modulation.
> 
> If I were confronted with a machine that was totally strange, maybe I could
> re-live those old days! Maybe some kind of "anti-synthesizer"?
> 
> I do get a kick out of the Hellfire modulator, it's like that.
> 
> - Gene
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John L Marshall [mailto:john.l.marshall at gte.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:34 PM
> To: Gene Stopp; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] What the heck is this?
> 
> 
> It has been on ebay a couple of times.
> 
> It is designed for hearing research. No control voltage.
> 
> Of limited musical use in my opinion
> 
> I resent the implied musical/sound application by including a Buchla 100 and
> a Capabara 320 in the same photo.
> 
> Take care,
> John
> www.sound-photo.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Stopp" <gene at ixiacom.com>
> To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:54 PM
> Subject: [sdiy] What the heck is this?
> 
> 
>> Some interesting design ideas here???
>> 
>> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2516286653&indexURL=3#eba
>> yphotohosting
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> - Gene
>> 
>>