MOTM

It's a little complicated to explain, I think, but pretty 
straightforward.  Deep breath, here goes:

I used a (Blacet) Binary Zone to produce the notes.  The out of the 
BZ is going into the Threshold of my Gated Comparator 
(Cyndustries/CGS) and to the 1V/OCT of three 300s.  OUTs 1, 4 and 7 
of the GC go to 3 800 EGs and each is connected to a VCA (2 100s and 
a 190). The outputs go to a mixer (830) and the single out of the 
mixer goes to the FS.  The UP and DN outs of the FS go to hard left 
and hard right on my console for recording.

That's the basic patch.  Some of the samples also have a Time Machine 
in the path.  LFOs are driving things like Clocks and sweeping CVs.  
Truth Is Beauty (incomplete quote stolen from Keats) is three SQRs 
that are slowly PWM'd in various ways and tuned to 3rds and 5ths.

The stuttering effect happens because the Gated Comparator stores its 
output to a bucket brigade of 8 registers that get shifted at each 
clock.  I used registers to trigger envelopes that were not close 
together so the effect would be obvious.

There is a bunch of cool stuff available using this patch.  Don't you 
love the smoothness of the sound of the FS.  Tony did one hell of a 
job and it certainly was worth the wait.

My next bit of experimentation with the FS will be to synthesize more 
klangy type tones.  I don't think that will be a problem :)

Mike

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Robert van der Kamp <robnet@w...> wrote:
> That's more like it! :))
> 
> All three of them very nice weird. Mike, could you please 
> explain a bit how you created these? For example, what's 
> causing the stepping effect in all three of the mp3s?
> 
> - Robert