[sdiy] Patchable polyphonic synth with FM or AM transmission idea

[cheater00 cheater00]

I've used lots of virtual modulars with high polyphony and they were
very useful.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 5:43 AM john slee <indigoid at oldcorollas.org> wrote:
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> In a large-format system, perhaps. Large tangles of Cat5 patch leads can be pretty inflexible and annoying to manage
>
> To the OP, I would ask: have you tried building something like what you want with pre-existing hardware or, possibly, with virtual hardware? eg. in Max? It would be unfortunate to go through all that analog hardware engineering pain (and it does sound like pain!) only to find that any or all of the below are true:
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> - the result is musically uninteresting
> - you rarely or never go beyond patches that are essentially a fixed-architecture polysynth
> - the user interface required to manage it all is horrible
>
> It's a very hazy memory now but didn't Creamware/Sonic Core's DSP modular have polyphonic capability?
>
> John
>
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 15:18, Joel B <onephatcat at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Cat5 cable might be a nice small footprint way to send multiple signals from module to module with easy connect/disconnect-ability. 8 wires per cable, nice little phone-jack...
>>
>> Joel
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> > On Dec 27, 2018, at 5:55 AM, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
>> >
>> > Frequency domain multiplexing was used long time ago in telephony.
>> > How nice and easy solution this was can be simply put in two questions:
>> > - why nobody remembers that?
>> > - why it was abandonned so quickly?
>> >
>> > I mean you have ready to use multichannel digital standards and multichannel ADc and DACs, why bother using an ancient idea that was so troublesome to manage that even 0.3-3.4kHz bandwith audio was a challenge.
>> > And if you want full analog, I'd go with multipin connectors, there are lots to choose from. OK expensive patch cable then, but still a tiny fraction of the price of any 16-voice module.
>> >
>> > Polysynths are hardwired for a reason.
>> >
>> > Roman
>> >
>> > W dniu 2018-12-25 o 20:49, cheater00 cheater00 pisze:
>> >> Hi everyone,
>> >> I was thinking again about how you could do a modular polysynth well,
>> >> and it occurred to me that you might be able to use frequency domain
>> >> multiplexing (FDM) to put several signals over a single conductor
>> >> pair. A quick search found the Si4710 which is a bit pricey at ~$12 on
>> >> digikey but it's a tiny 3x3mm QFN device that performs complete FM
>> >> transmission. In a 16 voice system, at about 5 output functions per
>> >> module, and 12 modules, you can easily use up ~1000 of those, which
>> >> drops the price to $4. I was wondering what everyone thinks about this
>> >> sort of scheme.
>> >> Given that metal patch cables could function as antennas and cause
>> >> both cross talk and external signal pick up, one could also use
>> >> multimode glass fiber and transmit signals this way. The question is,
>> >> does anyone know whether support electronics could be found that are
>> >> integrated enough (small in footprint) and inexpensive? The idea would
>> >> be to build an electronics module that takes 16 analog audio channels
>> >> and outputs a signal that can be then converted to glass media
>> >> signalling.
>> >> Merry Christmas everyone!
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