[sdiy] Digital Noise, FYI

Harry Bissell harrybissell at wowway.com
Thu Feb 17 21:46:33 CET 2011


rotflmfao...

OK I'll enjoy a steaming mug of STFU and choose my words more carefully in the future...

H^) harry   




----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net>
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Sent: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:33:22 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Digital Noise, FYI

He also used the expression: "I changed to an industrial tranny"

What could that possibly mean?  (c:  I mean, is he now an...

Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:
>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... 
>
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