[sdiy] chaos update

D A F polaris30 at ncx.com
Sat Apr 9 19:54:53 CEST 2005


And as an added bonus, the scope trace sure makes a nicely chaotic Windows
desktop  ;-)


Dave




----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Fritz" <ijfritz at earthlink.net>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:54 AM
Subject: [sdiy] chaos update


> Hi Folks --
>
> I have made some more progress in my development of chaos generators for
> use with analog synths.  The current system uses a slightly different
> topology from the first one that I previously posted, and it has a wider
> range of nonlinear functions.  With two comparitor nonlinearities, the
> circuit can make a quadruple scroll (compare the double scroll of the
> Lorentz system).  The system has a total of about 20 controls at this
> point, including a bunch of 12-position switches to set the parameters of
> the system.  Using switches is the only way I feel I can get reproducible
> settings.  The system has voltage control of frequency, loop gain and loop
> offset, the latter two of which  give voltage-controlled bifurcation.
>
> Some new demo material is up at this web page:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~ijfritz/xfer.htm
>
>    Ian
>




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