Doepfer

Hi Ethan, Roel,

> > Is the principle for the source of uncertainty coming
> > from the chaos theory? But what a minute, was the chaos
> > theory already in existence when Buchla build it's modules?
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure the Buchla Source of Uncertainty
> was ever associated with Chaos, however, the
> Blacet Dark Star Chaos module might be.  

I wondered this about the Dark Star Chaos myself, so when Blacet 
announced they had a load of the hard-to-get chips at its core, I 
bought one (just the PCB and chip). Haven't built it yet, but from 
the schematic and the chip datasheet, the answer is no, the DSC is 
not associated with what I would regard as 'chaos', i.e. non-linear 
dynamics, Chua's oscillator and the like. However, whether it might 
*sound* like a chaotic oscillator remains to be seen (I doubt it 
though - I did breadboard a Duffing oscillator a while ago, and 
it 'shreiked' rather than 'hissed' noisly!). Basically the DSC is 
voltage-controlled digital noise (like A117), with built in env gen, 
filter, VCA and oscillator.

When I get the time, one of the things I intend doing is to build a 
Chua oscillator, stick a voltage-controlled resistor in it, and see 
what comes out (and if it sounds reasonable, then stick a phase 
comparator and VCO into the mix to see if it can be made to track a 
VCO, PLL style, so that one might be able to play tunes with it...)

Tim