[sdiy] Anyone have a Schematic for a Serge Analog Shift Register?

[Jim Johnson]

I have that issue! Just read the review again.. ouch, that one hurt. A
lesser person might have given up after that. Congrats for your
perseverance!

Jim

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On 4/9/02 at 10:08 PM Peter Grenader wrote:

>Oh God...Synapse.  Good old Doug. Another Cal Arts fellow.  You guys will
>get a kick out of this story:
>
>If any of you have the issue with the guy from Devo on the cover, sitting
>with an Odessey I believe with a rubber mask on, they reviewed an
>electro-acoustic music concert I had in a huge auditoruim at placed called
>Birmingham High School  that (I'll admit) had a few technical hick-ups and
>Doug just ripped it apart. Worst review I've ever red for anything in my
>life!
>
>Joan LaBarbara reviewed the same concert for the LA Times and loved it. GP
>figure.
>
>OK, it got bad.  For some reason, I had decided on this event I'd sit in
>the
>audience, instead of working the tape machines.  Got 'my people' to work
>the
>gear.  Barry Schrader's piece started with narration.  They started his
>tape
>and twice speed and instead of just starting over, they just flipped the
>speed while it was playing.  It gets worse:
>
>Allen Strange had a piece in this as well and when this happened to
>Schraders work, Strange went ballistic and took his master back and
refused
>to give it to me.  At this point my deordant failed.  Later he did in fact
>give it back and we played.
>
>Subotnick, who was dating (not yet married to) Joan LaBarbara came to the
>event with her and walked up to me during intermission after all this
>happened and said "I've had days this bad before, don't worry...you'll
look
>back on this someday and laugh".
>
>Yeah...and then I got the review from Hell from Dougy.  That was the icing
>on the cake.  He even panned the sign they decided to put up at he main
>entrance of the school that said 'Electric Music Concert" Instead of
>Electronic Music Concert .
>
>Bad day,  that one.
>
>
>
>
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>on 4/9/02 9:32 PM, Jim Johnson at jamos at technotoys.com wrote:
>
>>> Does anyone have a Schematic
>>> for a Serge Analog Shift-Register module?
>>> (or something exactly like it)?
>>> 
>> think I have the schematic.. let me check -
>> 
>> Yeah, here it is. It's not scanned or anything.. it's in an old issue of
>> Synapse.
>> 
>> I can photocopy it and mail it to you, or photocopy then fax. Or I could
>> try to track down a scanner - wait, yes, a friend has one. So I should
be
>> able to Email you some Jpgs in a few days.
>> 
>> I also have schemos for the Serge programmer and Touch-sensitve keyboard
>> (not the full TKB). WIll try to scan those too. (Big problem will be
>> bandwidth - this guy is stuck with a 28K modem.
>> 
>> Jim Johnson 
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>> On 4/9/02 at 7:05 PM Cynthia Webster wrote:
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>>> Does anyone have a Schematic
>>> for a Serge Analog Shift-Register module?
>>> (or something exactly like it)?
>>> 
>>> Known in Sergeese as an ASR or "Arabesque Pattern Generator"
>>> (There was even a dual version available perhaps called an DASR).
>>> 
>>> This was designed for shifting control voltages from channel to
channel,
>>> not for analog delay or echo type applications.
>>> It's listed in the 1984 and "1970's" Serge catalogs)
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping to build a four or six-channel version of it
>>> that takes a common clock and am looking around at
>>> sample and hold circuits - or anything that might work?
>>> 
>>> For the record, I went looking to the Egres site and Yahoo
Sergemodular,
>>> and although the Analog Shift Register is on the 2000 price list -
>>> I'm not really sure how to contact Rex these days, and wonder
>>> if he'd even sell me a single module's circuit board by itself
>>> without knobs, jacks, and a whole panel full of other modules anyway?
>>> 
>>> ideas?
>>> 
>>> Hopeful!
>>> 
>>> Cynthia
>>> 
>>> cynthia.webster at gte.net
>> 
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