[sdiy] sample slicer noise synth

[Joel Kirchartz]

I beleive if you get alot of these "Talk Girl Scrambler" things figgure out 
their inner workings & see if you can mess with the sample time, otherwise 
get a bunch of those picture frames that record a message like "I love you 
gramma" gurrgled into it  Rat shack also sells a kit (check out 
carrionsound.com for his 'modifications') (about $10 - $15) ... Then buy a 
few Arion Digital Delay pedals (about $35 from musiciansfriend.com) and a 
feedback mixer (basically for each input it can be routed to each output and 
a final output) wire them up & you've got yourself a somewhat decent 
"Ambrazier" ... much luck to ya ... BTW, the shinth is like $1000, and the 
ambrazier is like $2000...

~kirch


>
>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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