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hello all,

i had a cunning plan, i couldn't get it to work, so i went off and patched
all the outputs of my VCOs into all the inputs - much more fun...
...anyway, the plan i had was this:
using visio, we (that's you lot) could create a kind of online patch archive
in PDF format, it'd be a great way of passing on various applications, and
it'd maybe create a bit more passing trade for Paul S, anyway to problems -
i can't program visio for toffee, it can't export to PDF, and the current
template has a panel ratio of 4:1 - oops

anyway, that was my original thought
messing around with corel presentations (which can publish to PDF) i have a
test patch PDF which is less that 6K, albeit in conceptual flowchart form
only
this sort of stuff could get posted to the list..?

i'll finish the patch sheet off and post it tomorrow evening unless there
are any objections, i would have thought with all the text in there it
wouldn't go past 20K

thoughts..?

cheers
paul b
(about to become a three VCO family, now where's that cigar..?)

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, sikorsky wrote:

> i had a cunning plan, i couldn't get it to work, so i went off and patched
> all the outputs of my VCOs into all the inputs - much more fun...

i hope you patched at least ONE output into a mult so you could hear the
mess you made... :)

> i can't program visio for toffee, it can't export to PDF, and the current
> template has a panel ratio of 4:1 - oops

you need acrobat. print to "PDF Writer" or whatever. acrobat is expensive,
but i happen to have it at work. if anyone wants to pdf their patches,
feel free to send the visio files to me... and what's this about a 4:1
panel ratio?

> messing around with corel presentations (which can publish to PDF) i have a
> test patch PDF which is less that 6K, albeit in conceptual flowchart form

conceptual flowchart form is good too...

> only
> this sort of stuff could get posted to the list..?

rather than to yahoo,  which i had to subscribe to to get access to the
files area, then promptly forgot what i had subscribed *as* argh. i'm
thinking it might do better if we posted them to paul s's main motm
site... whaddaya say, paul?

bleep.
out.

hello all,

if i have to click "publish to PDF" one more time, i'll go insane
anyway, to get everything to work (though strangely the apostrophes have
disappeared) it suddenly shot up from 13K to 101K so for those that can be
bothered, there's a nice bowed double bass sort of sound in PDF format at
the other end of the following link (i just tested it)

www.pasc.co.uk/testpatch.pdf

if you take the time to look at the main site you'll discover i haven't
updated it since last august - but then a lot has happened since then...

cheers
paul b

Panel drawings in GIF or JPG format would be useful.  Then every user could
piece together a drawing of their own system and create their own patch
sheets, to be used with pen and paper or on the computer.  I have Visio, but
most people don't.  However, graphics programs capable of putting together
graphic images are pretty common.

John Loffink
microtonal@...

----- Original Message -----

From: "sikorsky" <vulture.squadron@...>
To: "MOTM List" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] patch documentation


> hello all,
>
> if i have to click "publish to PDF" one more time, i'll go insane
> anyway, to get everything to work (though strangely the apostrophes have
> disappeared) it suddenly shot up from 13K to 101K so for those that can be
> bothered, there's a nice bowed double bass sort of sound in PDF format at
> the other end of the following link (i just tested it)
>
> www.pasc.co.uk/testpatch.pdf
>
> if you take the time to look at the main site you'll discover i haven't
> updated it since last august - but then a lot has happened since then...
>
> cheers
> paul b
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>

hello all,

> Panel drawings in GIF or JPG format would be useful.  Then every user
could
> piece together a drawing of their own system and create their own patch
> sheets, to be used with pen and paper or on the computer.  I have Visio,
but
> most people don't.  However, graphics programs capable of putting together
> graphic images are pretty common.

i've tried with panel drawings, but my system is always in a state of flux,
so i keep having to update them
also there's (i find) an intelligebility problem, in that a complex patch
documented in this way might look impressive, and of course, dead sexy, but
it's a nightmare to re-create, especially six months down the line when all
the modules have shifted around
i keep visual style sheets around to quickly jot a patch i stumble across in
mid session, but usually make my final documentation in conceptual form - in
my little black book...

of course, what we really need is motorised knobs, and programmable routing
via PDA...?
(no we don't really do we)

cheers
paul b