[sdiy] Digital Noise, FYI

[Donald Tillman]

Heck, he used the phrase "industrial tranny".  

  -- Don


On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:

> 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...