MOTM

hello all,

talking of alternative controllers
has anyone used the paia theremin (yawn)..?
i got roped into getting hold of a theremin for a friend, i came up with
this and thought : hang on, i can connect this to my MOTM..!
is this a good idea or what, or not..?
(forget trying to play it, i'm just going to plonk the antennae in front of
my cats, then abuse their copyright)

cheers
paul b

At 09:03 PM 03/29/2000 +0100, paul b <vulture.squadron@...> wrote:
>talking of alternative controllers
>has anyone used the paia theremin (yawn)..?

Yes, I built one, and just as with Ken, mine doesn't work either!
Actually, it partially works (and at various points, all of it has worked,
just not all at the same time) - enough to be of some use.  I should send
it back to PAiA, though, since I hear they're almost as good as Paul here
about repairing kits that weren't constructed 100% correctly (I wonder what
they charge to restore the traces that you burned off the circuit board
while trying to re-seat a metal can that needs a thermal connection ... not
that *I* would ever do something so stupid while assembling a kit, nope not
me!).

>i got roped into getting hold of a theremin for a friend, i came up with
>this and thought : hang on, i can connect this to my MOTM..!
>is this a good idea or what, or not..?

I found it pretty useless as an actual Theremin, but it makes a great synth
controller, especially with the volume-antenna-driven velocity and gate
outputs.  Have not yet tried it with any MOTM, though.

>(forget trying to play it, i'm just going to plonk the antennae in front of
>my cats, then abuse their copyright)

That would seem an ideal way to get them to participate in the creative
process ...

	-Doug
	 ceres@...

Hi All !

Don't have much experience with theremins as such, but since the non 
working ones seem to be built into scratch-built cases, read on :

On a visit to a friend he had installed a Big Briar Theremax on a mic 
stand, and was fooling around with it .  The top of the case was off, 
and we were joking at how it would not go down in pitch very well, 
when i touched the wire going from the base of the pitch antenna to 
the circuit board .  The bit of bottom of case this wire runs over 
has a foil groundplane .  When pushing the wire more over, and closer 
to this foil, the pitch dropped several octaves, the lows going 
distinctly toc, toc, toc ;-)  Some capacitance at play here ?  Dunno, 
but now this thing seems usable at last .  And this was with the full 
kit .

Food for thought ?

Hope this helps .


Keep 'em oscillating :)


Hugo
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Hi All !

Grrrr, i meant to write "Big Briar Etherwave"

Sorry about the typo .


Keep 'em oscillating :)


Hugo
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