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--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, Spacemodular <spacemodular@y...> 
wrote:

> I have found if I scale the joysticks to a 3 octave
> range with my Darkstar Chaos Modules - that I can pick
> out melodys fairly well - just need to practice a bit
> more...
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nick Wilson
> Chicago


Taking "picking out" a bit more literally: does anyone play melodies 
with their joystick through a pair of sample-and-holds triggered by 
the pushbutton? I imagine it's a fun way of playing discretely 
stepped melodies with a strong uncertainty factor: you don't know if 
you hit the note until your thumb "triggers" and you'll have to 
trigger again to correct it... After some practising, I bet that due 
to the deaf part one gets a "feel" for the joystick faster than when 
using the pure continuous output.

Also, I don't know if any TRACK-and-hold modules (i.e. the CV input 
passes as long as the button is pushed down, and upon release gets 
sampled and held) were ever sold apart from the Buchla 264, but 
wouldn't that would be a fine way of playing a joystick, too.

SK