[sdiy] spiral water!

[fmg]

Flip-floped on_topic:

harrybissell wrote:
> 
> God... what will they think of next ?
> 
> spiral GALAXIES ???
> 

No Harry, a spiral controller.

Like a twisted ribbon controlled (not in the sense of the word twisted...but
...twisted, you know... :)

You get a semitone (chromatic or microtonal) each time you touch a track.
Moving your finger radially from center to boundaries you get the whole scale.
Changing the direction of the radial you get diferent waveforms and modifiers,
ie: moving to W you get pure and clean sines, moving to S you get sawtooth with
perhaps a bit of pink noise, to NE PWM squares. Draw a compass on the outside
and choose the headings for your preferred fatty saturated sounds.

I also would add a second spiral controller for further modifiers. This left-hand
(or right-hand for levos) could control ADSR rates, LFO frequency and amplitude,
Q, waveshapers, etc.

I would go further and put somewhere a touch area (like your average PC keyboard
space-bar) to memorize notes and modifiers and make it polyphonic.

Ok, design details would not be a problem for people, the BIG problem here is
how to make it: should we do a right-hand or a left-hand spiral?

That will be our great dilema! ;-)

Fabio
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