I just got back on the group so I thought I'd wait a few days and see what people had been talking about. Nothing it appears. :-) Oh well, I've been enjoying working with a new band here. Real good guitarist and a couple younger guys on bass and drums who are fitting in real well. Nice age range...47, 42, 23, 22 or like that. Anyway working on a lot of semi-oldies...Oya Coma Va, Rikki, In God's Country, Diamonds on the Soles of her shoes, and some SRV stuff to name a few.
Anyway I finally got this Moog Opus 3 fixed up well and I'm trying to use it on some things, programmed a nice organ for Oya Coma Va and some of the other songs we're doing on the Korg Wavestation...though the guy has a B3 with two leslie's I practise on. We'll likely haul a leslie to gigs most of the time. He also has a CX-3 we might use sometimes.
I'd love to get back to the analog synth project but it's been too busy. Someone was dumping a nice wood box that's about the right size for the monster I want to build. Hopefully get back to it some day soon.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: [oldsynths] FW: [oldsynth] Re: Joystick vendor?
Forwarded from Oldsynth...
Hey OLDsynthers,
New 2 this list.
Not much going on with OLDsynth & OLDsynthS (?)
Everyone quit building? heh heh
(know this can't B true)
Re: Joysticks-----
As i recall, Atari joysticks were excentially 4 momentary
buttons; Apple joys were pots that controlled a timing
capacator; the 6502 read the "time"; sort of like PWM
in reverse(?)
Lots of electronic surplus compainies have 2-axis JSs around;
the resistor(pot) values vary from say 5K to 100K;
put a controlled amt of V in the top; other side to GND;
Or, use resistors top and bottom to "range" it in;
Or, use switches to move range up and down;
first decide what U want the end2end voltage swing 2 B;
if U dedicate 1 or 2 LM317s for the JS's pwr sup, U don't
have to worry about range switches;
AFN
tb22