MOTM

Here is some info about the Wiard Mini-Wave 1202.

For those of you who don't know, John Blacet of Blacet Research
(http://www.blacet.com) is doing an MOTM/DIY version of the Wiard Mini-Wave
1202.  I believe only about 10 of the Mini-Wave were sold by Wiard
(http://www.wiard.com) and it looks like Wiard is on its way of going out of
business.  They will not sell individual modules to new buyers--only
complete systems.  And they only have a few complete systems left.  The
Mini-Wave is also at the heart of the Wiard Waveform City module which
included other functionality such as EG, VCA and mult.

The Mini-Wave has a 400 kHz A/D converter.  I belief someone here said Wiard
used the Digisound chip in its design.  It also contains a 64k EPROM.  (Does
the Mini-Wave morph between sounds as on the PPGs and Waldorfs?)

The Wiard Mini-Wave sold for $199 + $10(S&H) assembled.
The Waveform City sells for $549.

I hope that John Blacet uses a standard MOTM-sized PCB, standard mounting
hole locations, ZIF EPROM socket and a standard MOTM power connector in his
design.

I am assuming that Dave and Larry will probably be doing a run of Mini-Wave
FPs in the future...

Here is the original Mini-Wave manual which includes a variety of MP3s and
pictures.

	http://www.wiard.com/Grants%201200/MiniWave/MiniManual.html

Here are pics of most of the 256 waves.  This link is also included in the
above manual, but it is so important that I wanted to separate it out.  Some
of the waves include:  square wave compression, Votrox SC-01 voder chip,
binary rate multiplier (CD4098), historic non-linear transforms, custom
waves from Darwin Grosse, Digisound VCDO, harmonic series and quantization
scales.

	http://www.wiard.com/Grants%201200/MiniWave/MiniWave_Manual.pdf

Here is the Wiard module that is based on the Mini-Wave.

	http://www.wiard.com/modular/waveform_city/waveform_city.html


Here is a brief description of traditional wavetable synthesis from a PPG
user's site.

	http://www.wavesynth.com/whatis.htm

Here are three pics from David Bradley's MOTMized Mini-Wave.

	http://motm.retrosynth.com/moe_stuff/Motmized_Miniwave/miniwave_front.jpg

	http://motm.retrosynth.com/moe_stuff/Motmized_Miniwave/miniwave_left.jpg

	http://motm.retrosynth.com/moe_stuff/Motmized_Miniwave/miniwave_right.jpg

Cheers!
Shemp