Dave, I can say without reservation I would buy one of these if you made it.
It could be offered two ways. One with just the pots so you hook it to one
or two 850s and off you go and also another with the all the electronics
inside that has CV out for pitch and volume and gate. I would be happy to
do the "electronics" part. I really like the Tom Polk designs with the
keyboard overlays that can be replaced.
The 1/2 circle thing on the Carlos page was interesting, and probably easier
mechanically to build. However, I like the flat surface idea better. One
of the things I liked about it was the volume lever on the side instead of a
knob to turn. I think the spring return idea was pretty cool. I would want
a way to over-ride the return to zero. And something maybe a little better
than a rubber band for the spring return
Oh, and the hand on the slide ought to have the ability to tap gates with
one of the loose fingers.
Crazy Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Hylander <david@...>
To: J. Larry Hendry <jlarryh@...>; Sikorsky
<vulture.squadron@...>
Cc: MOTM List <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] another friday afternoon hairbrain scheme
Sound like you've been having a fun afternoon, while I've battling a Cognex
vison inspection system for clear plastics. I've been thinking about using
a 6 inch or so linear pot for something like this. Probably more money
than most would want to spend, but I can take one from work to play with.
Hint taken Larry:)
At 10:46 AM 4/5/2002 -0600, J. Larry Hendry wrote:
>Clearly, the challenges are in the smooth slide operation of the arm that
>controls the pot, and to design the mechanics to produce a linear keyboard.
>What really appealed to me about this idea is that one could have multiple
>keyboards or indicating devices with various scales printed and swap them
at
>will. Since the controller is continuous, the number of different tunings
>is limited only by your imagination of drawing the appropriate stop points
>for your slide pointer to point at. We need someone good with wood (hint,
>hint DH) to design and build these for us.
-dave-
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