[sdiy] Floppy Disks for Analog Synths (was: Nifty Slider/Fader alert)

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe nN AAt e e, from writings of Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:54:59PM
-0700:
> this was actually in real life :P ... but i don't think ive ever seen an
> analog synth with a floppy disk drive haha

Now that floppy disk drives and analog synths have been mentioned in
the same sentence, has anyone ever given any thought to using a
modified floppy disk for any sort of analog recording, perhaps getting
several minutes of recording time out of an eight-inch floppy, for
example?  Since a stepper motor is used for the tracks, it probably
wouldn't work too well for long continuous sounds; however, perhaps it
might be useful for storing short samples.  Such a device could be
called an FDASR (no relation to the mythical dark activated SCR!), for
floppy disk analog sample recorder.

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