[sdiy] A crazy idea..

[Jeff Farr]

NOW were talking! using a VCA to controll the volume of bands of noise and
then decoding with tuned envelope followers! I can imagine having one noise
source, a comb filter of sorts to create 8 or 16 bands which is then fed to
the input of a VCA matrix!

On 10/4/05, Eric Honour <autophage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What about using a channel as one half of a vocoder?
>
> IE, one audio channel carries twenty different CV's by having twenty
> different (harmonically unrelated) tones of varying amplitude... much like
> the 'ghosting' technique previously mentioned, but not actually containing
> usable audio (it'd just sound like a crappy dissonant chord) - then using a
> series of very narrow bandpass filters into a bunch of envelope followers?
>
> On 10/4/05, Scott Stites <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> >
> > ....and no static at all. =-D
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Harry Bissell Jr" <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
> > To: "Scott Stites" < scottnoanh at peoplepc.com>; "Jeff Farr"
> > <moogah at gmail.com>; "synth-diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl >;
> > <peter at buzzclick-music.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [sdiy] A crazy idea..
> >
> >
> > > Ahhh silly me... of course you could use an AM
> > > system as well as FM (which I described). Depends on
> > > what range you need. AM is of course much cheaper
> > > to demodulate. You just need a rectifier and filter.
> > >
> > > FM will have much better speed of response...
> > >
> > > H^) harry
> > >
> > > --- Scott Stites <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > I imagine you could use Buchla's ghost whatsis
> > > technique (recording audio through a VCA controlled by
> > > the CV you want to record and then extracting the CV
> > > via an envelope follower for later performance).
> > > Peter Grenader has a pretty cool thing on his site
> > > about that - don't have the link offhand. Peter?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Scott
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeff Farr
> > > Sent: Oct 4, 2005 4:34 PM
> > > To: synth-diy
> > > Subject: [sdiy] A crazy idea..
> > >
> > > I've got a MAudio 1010lt audio interface in my
> > > computer at the moment and one of the neat features of
> > > the card is tha ability to stack as many of 3 other
> > > cards into the system for a rather large number of
> > > inputs and outputs (more than 30). Now, perhaps I'm
> > > way off base here, but I believe it would be possible
> > > to patch together a modular so that both the audio and
> > > control signals are routed through the computer such
> > > that complete performances can be recorded. Obviously
> > > the audio will work, but I can only speculate about
> > > controll signals being properly recorded... Any
> > > thoughts?
> > >
> > >
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