[sdiy] Wow! Milton as VC Harmonic Generator

[Michael Zacherl]

Hello Cynthia and All,

Cynthia Webster wrote:

> I just hooked one of the Miltons up here to try it out and it's exciting
> as a sort of quad VC harmonic Oscillator!

YES!! I knew it!  :-)))

> Turning all 16 of the knobs to the lowest, the audio output of the Sequencer
> is most mellow sounding.

Shouldn't that be a flatliner - errm - flat line? Or am I mistaken?
Or is it just because of several component tolerances being summed 
together and then not getting a zero-line?
<dizzy>

> As you turn up the knobs, real spiky harmonics
> can be generated resulting in ever more harmonic content that ultimately
> gets somewhat raspy sounding, (really wild waveforms on the scope).

Maybe a Little Lag (hint hint) processor would increase the range of 
possibilities?
How's Milty doing signalwise? Very sharp edges? Or rather long 
transition times?

> This all gets very interesting when an LFO is presented to the Voltage
> Control input on the Sequencer, as then the harmonic content is under
> voltage control... .

Sounds like one has to keep her/his audio recorder of choice running 
since the results would be rather unpredictable and also impossible to 
recreate.

> I'd like to try a patch like this feeding each row's output
> into a different audio channel of a quadraphonic setup.

hey ho - and now picture two quintuple Miltons ... (errm ... if only my 
ordered PCBs would finally arrive ;-)

   cheers, Michael.