Wiardgroup

Liquidcolor wrote:

>The closest to being ready to prototype is what I term 
the "rattler". 
It will be a stereo miniature plate reverb. Room simulation is not 
it's goal. Metallic pops, fizzes and sproings are.

[snip]

I'm not sure many people would find them intriguing, but surely Wiard 
users are apt to be more open to the ideas. I definitely think that 
electromechanical modules could be interesting sources of new 
timbres.<

Although anal-retentive purists such as I balk at the idea of 
electromechanical modules, there is a strong historical precedent for 
such devices.  The Ondes Martenot features a speaker coil attached to 
a metallic plate.  The Trautonium uses a similar device (and to very 
good effect).  Paulo Ketoff, inventor of the first portable 
synthesizer (the Synket), modified a plate reverb into a sound 
processor called a "vibrator."  And, in the 1970s, I wrote a short 
article in "Electronotes" on using a slinky as a reverb/sound 
modifier [I must have been less anal as a kid.  :-) ].  Such devices 
can add a lot of analog-ness even to digital sounds.

johnm