[sdiy] chaos update

Oren Leavitt oleavitt at ix.netcom.com
Sun Apr 10 01:41:21 CEST 2005


Looks great, Ian!
I've often wondered about sensitivity to CV feedthrough/offset when 
making these things VC'able.
Some parameters in the xfer function I imagine are sensitive enough...

Oren


Ian Fritz wrote:

> 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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