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

[nN AAt e e]

> 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?

at first i though... 'sampling analog to floppy disks? has he not been
following the thread at all? is he on crack?'...
and then i realized... 'WAIT! does he mean using the floppy disk as a
circular tape? a magnetic record! yes! he is on crack!"

while its a novel idea... i can only imagine how big a pain in the ass the
interface to it would be... but if you could get it working... you might
have some fun little things to do with it... freaky "lock-grooves" for
loops, like a weird sort of mellotron if you changed the speed to adjust for
pitch... [VCFD... Voltage Controlled Floppy Drive?]

NOW think of the people on AH would would be furious, seeing a floppy drive
in a modular synth :P

it would probably work a lot better with endless loop
8tracks...http://www.8trackheaven.com/birotron.html [i also just noticed
that the re-release of the Mellotron was very quiet], but i like the idea of
the the computer printers turned into pseudo mellotrons with bits of tape on
the spool...

- nate