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It looks like the Blacet model number is 2090.

I did NOT see buttons on the Blacet FP to manually advance the Wave and Bank
number.  Hmmm?

--Shemp


> 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