[sdiy] Digital Noise, FYI

[Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]

Did you just use the words "Trannies" and "Blow" in the same sentence?

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Harry Bissell <harrybissell at wowway.com> wrote:
> My first electronic drum machine was a "Thumpa Thumpa Box" from Popular Electronics...
> twin-tee oscillators and a unijunction based divider chain. Whenever the furnace would start,
> the noise pulse might make the next beat early (if the divider was near the trip point)
>
> Very much like a real drummer, and good for practice in error-recovery for live performance.
>
> As Unijunctions were used commercially, there were some really premium units available to me...
> I changed to an industrial tranny and the tempo rate was adjustable over a truly outrageous range...
> maybe 10-300bpm :^)
>
> If I had those trannies today I'd make a VCO that would blow (old) Moogs out of the water...
>
> H^) harry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
> To: Harry Bissell <harrybissell at wowway.com>
> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Sent: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:13:05 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Digital Noise, FYI
>
> On 02/16/2011 06:57 PM, Harry Bissell wrote:
>> 'sober drummer' ?????
>
> I did say "you could never have guessed", now didn't I? :)
>
> Oh, BTW, my first appearance as a "live musician" was playing a highly
> modified Minipops-7 in a drum-machine tune lasting about 3 min.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
>> H^) harry
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Magnus Danielson<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
>> To: Harry Bissell<harrybissell at wowway.com>
>> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Sent: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:35:57 -0500 (EST)
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Digital Noise, FYI
>>
>> On 02/16/2011 06:09 PM, Harry Bissell wrote:
>>> robot or no, it properly emulates the output of a real drummer as
>>> the beer supply falls to zero...
>>>
>>> <bfg>
>>>
>>> H^) harry
>>
>> Things you could never have guessed:
>> A sober drummer can actually keep the same pace... as the band.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>>
>
>
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