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A few additional links which I did not include originally...

John Blacet's preliminary FP pic:

	http://www.blacet.com/MW.html

Dave Bradley's MOTM schematic representation of the Mini-Wave:

	http://www.users.qwest.net/~daveb2/images/Wiard-MiniWave.gif

2 patches from Wiard using the Wiard Waveform City GR-342 (a.k.a. Mini-Wave
1202) (GR stands for Grant Richter):

	Pretty Arpeggios  http://www.wiard.com/support/patch_prettyarp.jpg

	White Noise  http://www.wiard.com/support/patch_wnoise.jpg

And here are the Wave 256 and Move 256 editors for PC (It doesn't look like
a Mac version will ever happen as promised on the website.):

	http://www.wiard.com/support/wave256.zip

Cheers!
Shemp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tentochi [mailto:tentochi@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:45 PM
> To: MOTM Mailing List
> Subject: [motm] Wiard Mini-Wave 1202
>
>
> 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