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Alternative controllers

2002-04-05 by John Blacet

An interesting link from Mr Tkacs....

"See Wendy Carlos' similar device, used on the last album, for another
controller idea: http://www.wendycarlos.com/circon.html  "

The "Syn Bow" (NO, I don't have any in the closet or know where to get
one or have a schematic...<:) used a wand for the VCO and a piezo sensor
for triggering the VCA and varying the waveform depending on impact
force.

This brings up the subject of different controllers. Now residing in my
"project box" are pressure sensors, piezo sensors, micro joysticks, bend
sensors, two axis acellerometers (sp), etc. The mind boggles...

What have you folks come up with?
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John Blacet
Blacet Research
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Re: [motm] Alternative controllers

2002-04-05 by Sikorsky

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From: "John Blacet" <blacet@...>
> This brings up the subject of different controllers. Now residing in my
> "project box" are pressure sensors, piezo sensors, micro joysticks, bend
> sensors, two axis acellerometers (sp), etc. The mind boggles...

hello all
well, i have a couple of LDRs which are useable - but i've not hooked them
up to my 850 yet, there's an industrial temperature controlled resistor that
seems to do very little (i even dipped it in my cup of tea) - though it
might be good for the much hyped crap vco / temperature drift emulation
i was interested to see how i could use muscle wire, but it's a bit
expensive just to watch it flop around controlled by an LFO or something
sooner or later i'm going to build something that involves optics...
...hmm

cheers
paul b

Re: [motm] Alternative controllers

2002-04-05 by synth_guru@eml.cc

Does anyone ever make any music with there gear, or are you all mad 
sientists ? : )
G

Sikorsky wrote:

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>From: "John Blacet" <blacet@...>
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>>This brings up the subject of different controllers. Now residing in my
>>"project box" are pressure sensors, piezo sensors, micro joysticks, bend
>>sensors, two axis acellerometers (sp), etc. The mind boggles...
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>hello all
>well, i have a couple of LDRs which are useable - but i've not hooked them
>up to my 850 yet, there's an industrial temperature controlled resistor that
>seems to do very little (i even dipped it in my cup of tea) - though it
>might be good for the much hyped crap vco / temperature drift emulation
>i was interested to see how i could use muscle wire, but it's a bit
>expensive just to watch it flop around controlled by an LFO or something
>sooner or later i'm going to build something that involves optics...
>...hmm
>
>cheers
>paul b
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Re: Alternative controllers

2002-04-06 by Eric Frampton

The Zeebar! (whazzat?)

It's a 61-note long pressure-sensitive strip (not location-aware like a
ribbon controller, just one big long pressure sensor) that was designed to
plug into the CV-in on non-aftertouch-sensitive keyboards, i.e. early
Ensoniq stuff, early polyphonic analogs, etc. I saw them advertised back in
the Big 80's, but have never seen another one besides this one. Not much to
look at, really.

hehe

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