On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Scott Juskiw wrote:
> Richard has summed this up quite nicely. I've found that a S&H alone
> is not enough to get "controlled chaos" with interesting patterns.
My experiences are consistent with Richard's and Scott's (BTW Scott has a
very nice cd with such ideas expressed on it). Some other modules that I
think assist with this process are voltage controllable (vc) dividers,
vc-adsrs, vc mixers, analog shift registers, analog logic modules (e.g.,
AND, NAND, ...), and sequential switches. Not mentioned, but that also
adds to dynamics in patterns, are different modules of the same type. For
example, not all lfo's produce exactly the same waveforms. Not all
oscillators produce the same waveforms (so variations on FM are
possible). All modules do not process cv's the same way. The more vc of
module parameters, the more dynamic a set of interacting patches can be.
>
> 1. A bunch of MOTM-320 LFOs all feeding back into each other. This
> provides random voltages
I'm not convinced that these would be "actually" random. Unless there are
anamolies or instabilities in the circuits, these should be patterned,
though the time frame required for the pattern to repeat may be 'long'.
>
> 2. A miniwave or two (or four) to quantize some of the random
> voltages. Miniwave is also good for generating events within a
> specific voltage range (using MARF discriminator in Socket Rocket
> PROM).
I'm not familiar with this miniwave PROM. Is this available somewhere?
Jeff