[sdiy] wave/surf machine

[Tentochi]

Cool idea.  But there isn't much different than having a CD player run for 70 or 80 minutes and
then repeating.  Or if you had enough source material, use an MP3 CD and it would run for hours
and hours before it would need to repeat the track.  Even cheaper and smaller and not prone to
viruses or spy-ware attacks.

Of course this has veared totally off of the original path and specifications.

The advantage of the analog circuit would be if you get a power outage for any length of time, the
sound would resume automatically if you didn't have to trigger it manually.  Most CD players won't
do this and you would have to write a script for the computer which would take several minutes to
get started again.

Finding samples of flying giant squid is going to be the hard part!!!

Cheers!
Todd

--- Batz Goodfortune <batzman-nr at all-electric.com> wrote:
> Obtain recordings of REAL surf. Edited together or a single long stream. 
> Dump it onto a hard drive inside a computer using your choice of free 
> software. Write a batch file or script that fires it off at boot up and 
> hook the sound card into the PA.
>
> And it will loop for as long as the electrons flow. Well assuming you're 
> not running under windows or something. That'd be just asking for trouble. 
> Even an old 486 could handle pumping out a huge WAV file in stereo like 
> this. This is a no brainer and requires virtually no effort. And you could 
> even have event triggered additional sound effects such as sea gulls and 
> air born giant squid overhead.


	
		
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