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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

very nice! perhaps, make them yellow faced with blue or purple legends?
unless, of course you're just using the already black plates from PAIA.
then of course, like the Joyrider/orig miniwave is still very welcome.
best,
pH
cloaca.net

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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> 
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> 
>

> 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...


Yes, you are. Or you wouldn't have brought it up.

That's NOT what I said (and it wasn't on this group.
Why are you making reference to another post on
another group out of context?)

And people wonder why I'm so touchy?

Paul S.


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--- In wiardgroup@y..., Paul Schreiber <syntht@y...> wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> 
> Yes, you are. Or you wouldn't have brought it up.
> 
> That's NOT what I said (and it wasn't on this group.
> Why are you making reference to another post on
> another group out of context?)
> 
> And people wonder why I'm so touchy?
> 
> Paul S.

The internet is tiny, regarding boutique products
such as analog modular synthesizers. Notice that
a number of us are on multiple forums, even here
on the Yahoo! groups, TGS, AH, etc. etc. and news
and topics blend into a melange. "A hurricane
triggered by butterfly's wings", to quote a great
song remarking upon a tiny action off in a corner of
the world rippling out and eventually effecting weather
patterns across the globe. 

Easier,

-Mike

In future, If I read any more of this bullshit in any modular 
synthesiser or electronic music based internet forum, I'm just going to 
uns*bscr*be.  I realise that that's not much of a threat really, b/c I'm 
really just making up the numbers, but there you are.  This has become 
like - what's that stuff - Kudzu?  Kunzu?  It clogs up every patch of 
open water it reaches, anyway, so PLEASE stop.

I apologise for laying this out on this forum, but here we go again, you 
know?  Here we go again (sigh).
-- 
Norman Fay

Paul Schreiber (09:48 pm 8/17/2002) wrote:

 >Yes, you are. Or you wouldn't have brought it up.

Let it go Paul.. That message was obviously meant to be private but it got 
sent to the list.

I've tried to write to the author, but it looks like he uses an anonymous 
remailer that won't let a private message pass back to him.


 >And people wonder why I'm so touchy?

Part of it may come from the pure example of how you (or anyone) can 
seemingly post here on an open list about Grant's products, but the MOTM 
list seems to run as a closed and moderated list.

Mark

That would make two of us.

Let's make music folks, that's what it's all about.

Regards,

Bill
______________________________________________________________________
 Bill Sequeira, Ph.D.
 Principal, Axon Hillock -- http://www.axonhillock.com/

> From: Norman Fay <kay-rad@faycycle.demon.co.uk>
> Reply-To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:45:45 +0100
> To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [wiardgroup] I HAVE HAD ENOUGH (was "Designs too simple for Blue
> Modules")
> 
> In future, If I read any more of this bullshit in any modular
> synthesiser or electronic music based internet forum, I'm just going to
> uns*bscr*be.  I realise that that's not much of a threat really, b/c I'm
> really just making up the numbers, but there you are.  This has become
> like - what's that stuff - Kudzu?  Kunzu?  It clogs up every patch of
> open water it reaches, anyway, so PLEASE stop.
> 
> I apologise for laying this out on this forum, but here we go again, you
> know?  Here we go again (sigh).
> -- 
> Norman Fay
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
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> 
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> 
>

Sheesh, I leave you folks alone for a couple of days and look what 
happens ;-)

All kidding aside, this is a forum for discussion of the Wiard modular 
system and related topics, not a forum for personal gripes - let's all 
keep that in mind, eh? Right now it's a very "open" forum by design - 
I'd hate to change that just to keep things on topic.

"A hurricane triggered by a butterfly's wings"? Wow, that's a good one, 
Mike P - whatever band came up with that must be really cool  ;-)

Mike

p.s. - to give this message a little more of an "on topic" spin, the 
-reason- I didn't catch this thread sooner was that I was off mixing my 
upcoming CD, which includes a fair bit of Wiard (MOTM too, and a little 
Blacet and Doepfer for good measure). More on that as it nears release.

On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Bill Sequeira wrote:

> That would make two of us.
>
> Let's make music folks, that's what it's all about.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
> ______________________________________________________________________
>  Bill Sequeira, Ph.D.
>  Principal, Axon Hillock -- http://www.axonhillock.com/
>
>> From: Norman Fay <kay-rad@faycycle.demon.co.uk>
>> Reply-To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
>> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:45:45 +0100
>> To: wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [wiardgroup] I HAVE HAD ENOUGH (was "Designs too simple for 
>> Blue
>> Modules")
>>
>> In future, If I read any more of this bullshit in any modular
>> synthesiser or electronic music based internet forum, I'm just going to
>> uns*bscr*be.  I realise that that's not much of a threat really, b/c 
>> I'm
>> really just making up the numbers, but there you are.  This has become
>> like - what's that stuff - Kudzu?  Kunzu?  It clogs up every patch of
>> open water it reaches, anyway, so PLEASE stop.
>>
>> I apologise for laying this out on this forum, but here we go again, 
>> you
>> know?  Here we go again (sigh).
>> --
>> Norman Fay
>>
>>
>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
>> wiardgroup-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>>
>>
>>
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>> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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At 12:38 PM 8/18/02 -0700, Mike Fisher <mbfisher@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>p.s. - to give this message a little more of an "on topic" spin, the
>-reason- I didn't catch this thread sooner was that I was off mixing my
>upcoming CD, which includes a fair bit of Wiard (MOTM too, and a little
>Blacet and Doepfer for good measure). More on that as it nears release.

Yep.  There's room for all types.  Last week (well, actually the week 
before) I played two gigs with two different bands two days in a row, one 
using Wiard, and one using MOTM.  Audience members at BOTH shows said, 
"wow!  great sounds!"

         -Doug
          jasret@mindspring.com

Hi Group,

My apologies. yes the message was intended to be sent to grant directly. i
saw his asap.net address in the "reply-to" field so i just replied, which of
course, as we all know, sent the message to the group somehow.
i don't use an anonymous re-mailer. just outlook express. i don't know what
the prob is.
...and once again, paul, since you are admittedly touchy, i really wasn't
trying to pick on you. i apologize. you do what you do well. i just think
you focus on different things than someone like grant does. well, it would
appear that way to me anyhow. it seems to me by your
product-line/literature/personal comments that you are interested in taking
more traditional time-tested concepts and improving their
quality/stability...whereas i feel that grant is maybe more interested in
taking existing technology and seeing just what sort of mayhem one might be
able to conjure by re-combining it and mixing/matching/swapping/woggling it
to maybe jog the musician's imagination a little more. perhaps even
discovering something new. those particular qualities happen to be more
interesting to me. i realize others don't feel the same.
i almost deleted the offending comment from my email (which i thought, at
the time, was only going to grant) before i sent it, since i'm aware he
doesn't particularly enjoy the synthmaker vs. synthmaker B.S., but i just
had to leave it in because i thought my "rhymes with Paul Schreiber" joke
was absolutely priceless (...no one would pay a dime for it.), but you know
that's me...

-Jack




on 8/18/02 12:49 PM, Mark Pulver at mark@midiwall.com wrote:

> Paul Schreiber (09:48 pm 8/17/2002) wrote:
> 
>> Yes, you are. Or you wouldn't have brought it up.
> 
> Let it go Paul.. That message was obviously meant to be private but it got
> sent to the list.
> 
> I've tried to write to the author, but it looks like he uses an anonymous
> remailer that won't let a private message pass back to him.
> 
> 
>> And people wonder why I'm so touchy?
> 
> Part of it may come from the pure example of how you (or anyone) can
> seemingly post here on an open list about Grant's products, but the MOTM
> list seems to run as a closed and moderated list.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> wiardgroup-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
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> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> 
>

----- Original Message -----

From: grantrichter2001 <grichter@asapnet.net>
To: <wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: [wiardgroup] Designs too simple for Blue Modules


> 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
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> wiardgroup-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>