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Looks great Thomas! I'm jealous! How did you go about making the panel?

 Thanks,
 Andrew

In a message dated 3/6/02 5:05:54 AM Central Standard Time, 
djthomaswhite@yahoo.com writes:

> just uploaded a picture of my MOTM'ized Wiard Joyrider
>  VCF to the files page. Really like the performance
>  aspect of this dual filter. Shame Grant didn't release
>  more of them with the joystick hardwired in. The sound
>  is very different to anything my MOTM offers as of yet
>  and you can really squelch the frequencies with self
>  oscillation. Similar to MOTM-420 in a way but
>  different in many others. Buy a borg and a joystick
>  controller and voila, good times ahoy! Thanks Grant

Thanks Andrew,

The panel is a standard issue MOTM blank available
right on the site. I drilled it out to MOTM spacing
with my drill press and I used one of Larry Hendry's
very convenient panel brackets to mount the pcb to. I
used almost entirely the original Wiard wires to make
connections and only had to extend a couple like
ground. The front panel LED's were board mounted and
in series with the vactrols in the filter. I moved
them to the front panel mainly for show. I love a good
LED response don't you? The LEDs get more intense with
the rise of cutoff frequency and they are lit most
brightly with the filter open. All of the legending is
simply black plastic Brother label tape with white
letters. Cool what you can do with this stuff in a
pinch. Schaeffer panels were too expensive and not
enough people have a joyrider to warrant making a
stooge panel :(

The only mods I did to the circuit was to add a level
control to the input which I now know I don't really
need and I made both resonance controls available
separately instead of having them tied to one pot. I
love this VCF and it makes sense to buy a Borg since
the Joyrider uses the same pcb only about half stuffed
with parts. The Full Borg must be a true devil! I
really think the dual filters controlled by the
joystick are what make this filter happen for me also.
So cool to swim the stick around with a bit of
resonance going. Great job Grant, I'm lucky to have
one of these, off to make my own joystick bank
inspired by the fun of this filter!

Thomas White

PS. Information and pictures of the original Joyrider
and the other Borg prototypes as well as tons of other
stuff is on Grants own page www.musicsynthesizer.com
Get diggin'

--- ixqy@aol.com wrote:
> 
>  Looks great Thomas! I'm jealous! How did you go
> about making the panel?
> 
>  Thanks,
>  Andrew
> 
> In a message dated 3/6/02 5:05:54 AM Central
> Standard Time, 
> djthomaswhite@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > just uploaded a picture of my MOTM'ized Wiard
> Joyrider
> >  VCF to the files page. Really like the
> performance
> >  aspect of this dual filter. Shame Grant didn't
> release
> >  more of them with the joystick hardwired in. The
> sound
> >  is very different to anything my MOTM offers as
> of yet
> >  and you can really squelch the frequencies with
> self
> >  oscillation. Similar to MOTM-420 in a way but
> >  different in many others. Buy a borg and a
> joystick
> >  controller and voila, good times ahoy! Thanks
> Grant
> 


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Wow! Looks great! Did you convert the Wiard power cord to the 
MOTM MTA type? Also, what PSU did you plug it into? I'm thinking 
of getting a Borg and doing this. It would be a dream come true if 
Grant would offer kits for people who want to fit his modules into 
their current system. Kind of like him and Blacet did with the 
Miniwave (which is brilliant).

-John Langdon

Hey Thanks!

I just cut one end off a MOTM power cable and tacked
the wires in place on the pcb. Using my MOTM-900 with
no problems. The filter came with the joystick and I
highly recommend it if you build one. Very neat VCF
with great sonic palette. I now have thoughts of
hacking down a Omni filter but its too much money to
spend on all that packaging I'll just be shedding.
Shame, maybe Grant will offer partial kits someday. 

Heres to hoping, 

Thomas White

--- j_inform3r <j_inform3r@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wow! Looks great! Did you convert the Wiard power
> cord to the 
> MOTM MTA type? Also, what PSU did you plug it into?
> I'm thinking 
> of getting a Borg and doing this. It would be a
> dream come true if 
> Grant would offer kits for people who want to fit
> his modules into 
> their current system. Kind of like him and Blacet
> did with the 
> Miniwave (which is brilliant).
> 
> -John Langdon
> 
> 


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