[sdiy] sample slicer noise synth

[Chris]

This topic may not be intirely appropriate for this list but maybe you guys
can point me in the right direction. Here goes... So I've been interested
in trying to build a sampler synth that could store a decent length of
audio maybe 30 sec max or less (all depends on the cost) and let me f*ck
with the parameters (loop/oscillate, loop points, reverse, random playback,
pitch/speed, bit resolution/sample rate) by using various control voltages.
The inspiration for all this has come from a little toy sampler synth that
was given to me by may parents when I was a kid. It's called the yamaha
vss-30. It's a very special keyboard that is very dear to me and is capable
of most of the previously mention modulations and has a sample time of 2sec
at 8-bit I believe. I haven't really acted on the  impulse to build a
bigger much more evil companion to my beloved child hood friend simply
because I thought that  these kinds of things couldn't be done cheaply. But
I recently came across a bunch of  "talk girl scrambler" toys that can
sample like 5 sec of sound and do reverse playback and random playback
(playing back from random points within the sample) all with very few
components, one of the components being those pesky globs of silicon IC's.
Rerouting some of the internal components have yielded some really wild
modulations that have me smiling from ear to ear as I'm typing this very
moment. Another thing that has really excited me is finding out about Peter
Blasser (Ranbowrandom.com) who seems to building instruments that are very
close to what I'm trying to accomplish.  So my question is how do I go
about doing this? What books do I read? Are there chips available and
relatively affordable? Any help at all would is greatly greatly
appreciated.  

-Chris

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