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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm surprised that I don't see much use either of
these chips: TC9400 or XR4151 in synth work. The commonsound atoner uses the
4151 and "The Modern Implement Company" mentions the TC9400 used in something
called The Rube Goldberg Function Generator.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Modern Implement Company page is a recent
discovery of mine. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Very cool. This is the kind of thing I'm working on
in my analog work because all of the regular stuff I have a VST plug-in for.
Which is not to say I'm limiting myself to that. Having a number of VST plug-ins
to test different things to implement in the analog domain is very handy. And
very fun. And there are tons of free plug-ins an even a few free hosts. I use
tobyBear for my test bed. It only supports one plug-in at a time but there's a
plug-in that lets you plug in a bunch of plug-ins as one. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Even though I write conventional (well I do use
just tunings and quarter tones but I've come to accept that as normal) music I
really love Edgard Varese and Iannis Xenakis so electronic noises and stochastic
music are very interesting to me. I'm more interested in implementing stochastic
music generation in the analog domain - mostly because it's easy in the digital
domain but I'm not a very good programmer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are a lot of great examples of modules that
have given me some great ideas that I don't think I would have ever thought of
before - like the things on the aforementioned page and Wiard's Woggle Bug.
Ken Stone's site has several things that I think look great as well - like the
Infinite Melody and even the V8 similator (which actually looks like it could be
adapted into a nice ambient noise generator). I'm thinking of another level
of stochastic control - that will be my first big contribution to the
community.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>