PLAN B analog blog

Peter,
     I was wondering if you were planning on doing a small run of the motivity input port.  It 
would be an amazing module.   If it could be expanded to eight pads instead of 5 and 
given another row of knobs and counter funtion, it would be like a smaller serge TKB.  
Does anyone else think that this would be incredibly usefull?

Well, here's the thing.  Those touchplates a friggin' expensive.  $10 each -
my cost.  I think a better way of doing t would be real touchplates and I
would have to find out how much it would be to have something like PCB
material plated with nickel instead of solder. I've done a driver circuit
for a touchplate which is pressure sensitve, so that's not the problem.

Currently, I'm borrowed technology from Serge (he published it in Synaspe
for people to build, so it's pretty much public domain at this point) which
allows an external pulse to SEND to each of the keys - so it can actually
act as a sequencer, as long as you have a trigger sequencer to dish out the
pulses.

What I could do fairly easily is use Milton technology to make it sequencer,
even with voltage control of direction.  And adding a second, third or forth
bank of pots also wouldn't be not be a problem.

The only problem would be the accumulated price.  This thing to crawl up to
the $700 range pretty easily.  This is an off the top of my head figure, but
there's a lot of stuff behind this. ...but there are other things
brewing..(see next letter!).

If you look in the photo section you'll see an output Balanced Stereo Output
Processor.  Sitting in the hospital earlier this week (my dad had surgery),
I worked out a good portion of the circuit.

I'm also in discussion with someone  on collaborating on a quad
panner/joystick in Doepfer format.

and...there is also talk with somone else about a ingenious interface which
allows a Mac or PC to generate and receive control voltages - mutli channels
(over four) of I/O which support a very popular electronic music production
software with is available for both Mac ad PC - and no, it's not Reaktor.

Problem is I can't really work on this until the the bulk of the VCOs are
completed, which are now flying through like buttah.

- P