Wiard Mini Wave as a 3rd VCO
2000-08-26 by thomas white
Hello again, forgot to mention that I got my Wiard Mini Wave module today in the grandious Frac Rak format. I am a little dissappointed with the quality of the silkscreen and the knob spacing is all tight for a three space fracker. But, this thing is a VERY cool addition to the MOTM and it makes all kinds of clavinet and pulse and random waveshapes. It can even be a quantizer I guess, or so it says in the manual. It has an EPROM base and it has 16 banks of 16 waves (256 total). There is a list of waveshapes on the wiard web page. The env select in lets you roughly snap between all of the 16 waveforms in a bank like with an LFO or Env Gen. Got mine prebuilt and tested (against normal procedure) for the kit price because the kit is not happening anymore and I was lucky enough to have pre-ordered. Pre built is $200 I think. Who will be the first to MOTM-ify this thing? Very nice timbres and smooth tracking as well. Not as low bit type of sounds as I would have expected, very quality. Thomas White PS. I think there is enough room to drill out the 1/8" jacks to add 1/4" but its up to you. The pots are the 16mm carbon cheapies but the application they are in is not as critical as say cutoff on a filter. The locking of waves and banks is very accurate as well so I can live with it. www.wiard.com as if it could be any less obvious ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com