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Subject: Re: Module idea

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...
Date: 1999-09-30

The design is "programmable", by swaping EPROMs.

Otherwise, it rapidly approaches DoMAS.

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bradley <daveb@...>
To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:49 AM
Subject: RE: [motm] Module idea


>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
>I like!
>
>Version #3
>
>Programmable tuning tables - up to 64 steps per octave for microtuning and
>gamelon scales (of course, you'd need to use an alternate controller since
a
>keyboard's output is too coarse).
>
>OR, you could use say only 5 steps and program in a pentatonic scale, so
>that random large voltage swings IN = nice melodic scales OUT.
>
>Would be more expensive than the other two proposals cause you'd need a
>couple of buttons and a pot or encoder to program it.
>
>Dave Bradley
>Principal Software Engineer
>Engineering Animation, Inc.
>daveb@...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:59 PM
>> To: MOTM listserv
>> Subject: [motm] Module idea
>>
>>
>> From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>>
>> AS the mind wanders stuffing 6,412 parts into little plastic
>> bags................
>>
>> How about a voltage quantizer module. CV IN CV OUT.
>>
>> Version #1 >>>>CHEAPER<<<<<
>>
>> Rotary switch to select quantized step size: whole, 3rds, fifth,
>> 7ths, 9ths.
>>
>> Version #2 >>>>>$$$<<<<<
>> No switch, all ratios simultaneously available.
>>
>> Would be EPROM based, so hacking encouraged and rewarded. Both versions
1U
>> wide.
>>
>> Paul S.
>>
>> >
>
>>