[sdiy] spiral water!

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 30 September 2005 01:12 pm, fmg wrote:
> 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! ;-)

How about one for each hand?

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