MOTM

I am expecting to take delivery on one soon.  It is being customer built
for me by Tom Polk.  Tom built the Tannerin that Brian Wilson is using on
his current tour / album.  However, mine will be sans the internal
oscillator.  All I wanted was the control voltage.

As far as difficulty, it depends on how rugged and playable you want it to
be.  I think Tom has put a lot of efforts into a quality design.  If you
are interested, I will send you his URL for looking at some photos of a
couple he built.

I plan to take his basic design and modify it to do a little more.  Here is
my plan.  I want the slider to output the control voltage for the
oscillators (Tome's part).  I want to be able to tap a surface directly
below the slider with the thumb (or pinkie) of the same hand to generate
gate or gate/trigger outputs for the EGs.  And, I want to put a Big Briar
style upright Etherwave antenna on the left hand side that will output a
control voltage (will probably use the PAiA T-max circuit for that
function).  That control voltage would be used for modulations - for
example filter sweeps and such.  I think that would be a REAL expressive
controller.

Larry (stooged again) Hendry



> From: "David Bivins" <dbivins@...>
> 
> It's been a while since anyone's mentioned Tannerins, ribbon controllers,
> etc. I fantasize about a knob/slider/whatever box that I can use with my
> modular. Basically it would be a box with some big, weighted knobs (like
the
> size of the rotary encoder on the Moog Source), some sliders, some
buttons,
> two or three joysticks, etc. and a bunch of CV and gate outputs on the
back
> for interfacing to the modular.
> 
> 1) Is anything like this available?
> 2) Correct me if I'm wrong (like *that's* never happened on this list),
but
> wouldn't such a controller be relatively easy to build given that I'm not
> trying to scale or anything so precise?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David (who really should be working)