[sdiy] trigger to optocoupler is button?

[Pat Kammerer]

I accidentally steered this off-list...

There's two things going on there.  One is intentional: the need to bring a
bit of unpredictability to my module collection, which was succesful.  The
other is unintentional and due to laziness/lack of knowledge.  I could
probably set the mods up a bit better, because some knob settings crash the
module most of the time.  This is very reminiscent of many bent toys, and I
don't mind it, so I haven't changed it.

The real reason I have it in there is to have a unique sound source.  It is
a VCO in most ways, but it has rudimentary speech synthesis which is synced
in pitch with the oscillation.  The phenomes can be grabbed and looped in
simple ways with pulses, and the speech can be turned off.  The oscillator
can also be turned down so you can have speech only output.  It also has
simple gating of the output.  So it's hard to get a module with capabilities
like this, and I'm glad to have it there, even if it does crash on occasion.
(and the pitch knob sweeps backward....oops...)   : )

Colin Raffel wrote:


> That's quite interesting... I remember how way back when you had that
> toy rigged up in your modular synth, and it crashed while making
> sounds, and you said "Well, it is still just a circuit bent toy..."
> It's weird because until you said that, since it was ina  synth, I
> just assumed it was going to work flawlessly.
>
> -Colin
>
> On Jan 22, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Pat Kammerer wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Colin Raffel <colin at experimentalistsanonymous.com>
> > Subject: Re: [sdiy] trigger to optocoupler is button?
> >
> >
> >> Pat-I was waiting for you to answer this one :)
> >>
> >
> > Hehehe, yeah I like this kind of stuff.  In general I'm sick of
> > simple toys
> > that play a sound a button is pressed, but when they can be creatively
> > triggered then they create a sound wholly unlike the original toy.
> > I'm more
> > enthralled with toy keyboards as far as stand alone circuit bending
> > targets
> > go.
> >
> > I did the type of triggering I described on a playskool radio type
> > toy that
> > plays four songs in each of four "genres".  It has an internal
> > sequencer,
> > but it triggers fine from LFOs on my synth. When the speed of
> > triggering is
> > fairly slow, the toy will play the first few notes of a song then
> > the next
> > trigger will play the first few notes of the song that it's patched
> > to,
> > etc...  This makes it possible to make completely new synth-like
> > sequences
> > with just a trigger sequencer, or simple sequences with just an
> > LFO.  The
> > toy also sports FM and AM inputs for mangling the loops that are being
> > played.
> >
> >
>
>