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Hi Grant,

how's it going? i met you a couple years back. i came over to your house
with Mark and Gabe and we talked about The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and
Synthi Hi-Flis...
anyway, i'm definitely interested in this new module. i would've been on
board for the joysticks, but i have been having a particularly bad
economical crunch this summer. much like mark, (and everyone else these
days) i live month to month hoping i'll have enough to get by.
When you get a better idea of what they are going to cost can you send me an
email? 
I don't want to commit to reserving one yet, but i would like to let you
know that i'm interested. $200/under is hovering right around my "well, i
can't REALLY afford this, but i'll find a way to scratch up the dough"
threshold! skipping meals builds character!
it's really great to see someone consistently taking a creative approach to
instrument making...rather than complaining that there's nothing left to do
and everything's been done...not naming any names...let's just say it rhymes
with Paul Schreiber...well, it rhymes *extremely* well.
i'm not trying to pick on him, i just think it's a lame and defeatist
approach to take...especially publicly.
oh well...

take care
jon autry



on 8/17/02 2:41 PM, grantrichter2001 at grichter@asapnet.net wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
> 
> Nick and I have finally caught up with the orders from February
> and March.
> 
> Since the Wiard project started in 1996, I have prototyped over 40
> interesting module designs. Some of these simply will not fit
> neatly into a "Blue Face" module. But it is a shame to waste
> them, as they are novel and fun.
> 
> The Joystick is the first one to be put in the Frac-Rac format. I am
> going to try and produce limited editions of other fun ones at the
> under $200 price point. These will be Frac-Rac compatible with
> Blacet power connectors.
> 
> The next up is the "Noise Ring" module. This one is very strange
> and hard to explain. It is a cross between the Modern Implement
> Company "Rube Goldberg Generator", the Electronotes
> "Psuedo-Random Tone Wheel Animator" and the Buchla Model
> 266 "Source of Uncertainty".
> 
> It starts with a white noise generator. There is also an 8 stage
> shift register clocked with a wide range voltage controlled clock.
> There is a comparator comparing the white noise against a
> variable reference. This is the "probability of change" control. The
> shift register input is recycled by a switch that selects between
> recycling the bits currently in the register or looking at the
> probability of change comparator for a new bit. The switch is
> controlled by another comparator which is the "change density"
> control. The shift register outputs are available as 256 voltage
> levels and 9 voltages as in the 266 SOU.
> 
> At audio rates, the effect is to move from a noise signal to a
> pitched signal with various balances in between. The sounds
> range from "squarish warm" to modem tones to colored noise.
> The clock is not a keyboard tracking oscillator, but can be
> controlled with a sequencer (or at slow rates, used to clock a
> squencer).
> 
> A slow rates, it generates repeating control voltage patterns,
> where the probability of changing the pattern can be controlled.
> Kind of like a sequencer which can improvise.
> 
> This is intended as a module for experimentation, amusement
> and fun, no claim is made to how musical it is. Edition is limited
> to 50 pieces.
> 
> Contact me at grichter@asapnet.net if you wish to reserve one.
> The price is TBD but will be kept as low as possible. Delivery
> time is not known at this point, but it is to next after we ship the
> Joysticks.
> 
> Thank you for your continued support.
> 
> Grant Richter
> Wiard Synthesizer
> 
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