Wiardgroup

Hi Chris,

> My main serious concern would be ease of use. I'm up to speed on the 
basics
> but haven't yet really explored the advance features on my Serge 
>yet.

Grant is very circumspect in his claim that the Wiard is not designed 
with a 'tutorial' panel for novices but I find his design very 
straightforwad and very forgiving (nigh on REWARDING) of 'wrong' 
patches. 
I have a friend with no modular synth knowledge at all who takes the 
pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey approach to patching. He prefers to use the 
Wiard gadgets in my studio to all the others.   

> Is it straight forward to input audio into Wiard modules? I do a lot 
of
> guitar and drum processing and don't always want to go via the Arp.

The Audio inputs to Wiard are line-level. Most passive electric 
guitars will require a preamp to make efficient use of the headroom on 
a Wiard. Some electric guitars have battery powered preamps on-board 
and these would probably not need the boost - so it all depends.
A preamp is a fairly trivial circuit. What is your 'DIY-Q'? If you can 
solder a bit I can point you to solutions that will cost under 5$US.
Drums (i assume you mean drum machines, yes?) are almost all line 
level so there should be no problems there.



> BTW, can you do different things with the MiniWave than the Waveform 
City?

I'm Assuming from your question that you intend to use the digital 
waves as audio sources. (BTW both gadgets can also be used to process 
sub-audio CV's. ie: quantizing)
The Waveform City has an on-board VCO and one bank of 256 waves
The Miniwave requires an outboard VCO to drive it and it has 2 panel 
switchable banks of 256 waves each. 

> Thanks, Chris.

You're welcome...
doc

> Future Wiardo?
come on in! the water's......... weird!