[sdiy] Floppy Disks for Analog Synths

[Oren Leavitt]

About 20 years ago I did entertain the thought of building a analog 
'tape' delay/echo using an 8" floppy and a drive retrofitted with a 
variable speed motor and analog tape heads put up close to the disk 
media. I never did persue this as a project...yet.

Oren

R. D. Davis wrote:

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