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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Re: exotic new modules ideas anyone?

2005-06-06 by Bakis Sirros

hello ernst,
many thanks for the details. as you can see, i already
created the new polls thanks to your detailed email.
best regards,
bakis.






--- achtung_999 <ernst@dendriet.nl> wrote:

> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Bakis Sirros 
> <synth_freak_2000@y...> wrote:
> > hello ernst,
> > could you please give us some more detailed info
> about
> > your suggestions in your email below?
> > i need more details, in order for me to be able to
> > create some new polls for your suggestions.
> > regards,
> > bakis.
> 
> > --- achtung_999 <ernst@d...> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > A list of things that come to my mind after some
> > > thinking.
> > > 
> > > 1) Still the pitch tracker/pitch demodulator,
> > > preferably with a range switch.
> > > 2) VOSIM oscillator, the Keagi/Tempelaars
> design. 
> > > 3) A tendency mask generator. another design
> from
> > > the sonology studios. Easily explained 
> > > this is 'random cv between a maximum and a
> minimum
> > > value'
> > > This is nice probably possible as an extension
> of
> > > the a172 max/min. An idea from the 
> > > workingmethods of the german composer G.M.
> Koenig
> > > (Stockhausen's assistant on a.o. 
> > > 'Kontakte'). 
> > > 
> > > I could elaborate more on these if you guys are
> > > interested. 
> > > 
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > Ernst
> 
> 
> Hello Bakis!
> Of course I can add some more info.
> 
> 1) I see that Doepfer has put the pitch tracker on
> the overview as a
> module in 
> development, good.
> I would like to stress that a range switch
> compatible to the A110
> osc. 
> So the old practice of saving ctrl. voltages to tape
> or an other
> medium can be used. By 
> means of modulating the pitch of an a110 osc. with
> the voltage to be
> recorded and then 
> recording the audio output of the a110. By setting
> the voltage range
> on a pitchtracker to 
> the same as the one on the osc. the voltage can be
> retreived again
> and used over and over 
> again... And: yes, I know this can also be done with
> amplitude.
> However the frequency 
> based way I find much more elegant and accurate. 
> 
> 2) The Vosim oscillator is a classic from the
> Institute of Sonology,
> where I studied 
> electronic music. The synthesis method uses a
> squared-sine (achtung:
> squared in the 
> mathematical sense!) pulse with a number of
> repetitions of which the
> amplitude decrease 
> and the number of repetitions can be set via voltage
> control. It goes
> beyond the scope of 
> this mail to elaborate on this extremely nice
> synthesis method, it
> can sound very voice-
> like, hence the name VO(ice)SIM(ulation).  I know
> that some people I
> know at Sonology 
> might be interested in licensing the method to
> Doepfer..  A page on
> the vosim module 
> from the Sonology studio manual is available from my
> webspace here: 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~eloo999/downloads/vosim.pdf 
> (text copyright:
> Kees Tazelaar)
> 
> 3) The tendency mask generator at Sonology is a
> device which you feed
> an upper limit and 
> a lower limit as cv inputs (I imagine in a doepfer
> system it could be
> an extension of the 
> a172 max/min). There's also a clock which can either
> be internal
> or an external pulse.. 
> The device gives out random values between the upper
> and lower limits
> at the clock rate. 
> 
> I hope this takes a few questions away…
> If not, please ask me for more… I'm getting lazy
> here!
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Ernst
> 
> 
> 


Bakis Siros
Parallel Worlds / Polariton
Athens-Greece
[Doepfer_a100] group owner
http://www.shimarecords.co.uk
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