MOTM

While the whole thing *is* a joke on you, there's no reason you can't 
be in on the fun.

Dr. Mabuse is the anti-hero of Fritz Lang's classic movies about an 
evil genius who tried to bring about the fall of governments through 
random criminal acts.  "Dr. Mabuse-Der Speiler", from 1922 was the 
first.

For Grant Richter's take on random evil, check out 
http://www.musicsynthesizer.com/WoggleBug/WoggleBug.html where Mr. 
Richter has an early version of his Standard Wogglebug #3.  The heart 
of this circuit is two PLL IC's giving each other contantly changing 
inputs to prevent them from finally locking.  

Currently on my bench are three random voltage control circuit 
projects.  After playing with random number generators and other 
digital noise sources, I have found the dual chaos-patched PLL design 
to be the most promising.  My circuit replaces the vactrols and s/h 
of the Wogglebug with a very low frequency VCO.  The VCO's of the 
4046 IC's are also tuned to the lowest range.  This arrangement is a 
lot of fun and provides three distinctly different outputs- random 
phase pulses (which I've squared-up through a comparator), random 
duty square wave (also squared-up), and wacko random waveform(s).

Dr. Mabuse is alive!  And eating me out of house and home...

Chub- another ham for chaos.

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Rossen" <mididood@a...> wrote:
> Hey Gang,
> 
> Long time no posting due to domestic hell - sure you can all guess 
> what thats about...
> 
> Question for the veterans (unfortunately, I'm a veterinarian...ok 
not 
> really)
> 
> Anyone know where the schematics are, or even a description of the 
> module:
> "the Stochastic Spinner-by Dr. Mabuse"
> Its at the end of this page:
> http://www.musicsynthesizer.com/DIY/Mike/DrMabuse.htm
> and states: "Schematics for the Stochastic Spinner
> An original module design by Dr. Mabuse"
> 
> This is driving me crazy cause I can't find anything! And due to my 
> very sick and demented analog synth mind, I've become obsessed with 
> locating this thing.  Any description of a module with the 
> words 'Random'in it(per a websters definition of 'Stochastic'), 
gets 
> me all crazy.  I tried emailing the website host/master and didn't 
> get a response - quite awhile ago...
> 
> I'm starting to think the whole thing is a joke on me...but I just 
> gotta know!!!
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rog