PLAN B analog blog

My mind tends to wonder during the drudgery of soldering Plan 
Bs and I got to thinking about a thing called a wavemaker, which 
would take an external AC signal and shape it into a sine, tri, 
saw , square and morph with separate outputs for each.  

Not sure how many would agree with me that I think this is a 
useful thing - but for instance, it would be the perfact companion 
to a freq divider when used as a sub ovtave generator because 
you wouldn't have to settle with the square wave output if you 
didn't care to.

It's going to be a bit of a task to set it up so that the input signal is 
'just right ' for the waveshapers to fire up, but with the help of a 
window comparator, attenuation knob and LED at the input stage 
it would sail.

Any thioughts on this?

- P

sounds very interesting.




--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure 
that out)" <peter@b...> wrote:
> 
> My mind tends to wonder during the drudgery of soldering Plan 
> Bs and I got to thinking about a thing called a wavemaker, which 
> would take an external AC signal and shape it into a sine, tri, 
> saw , square and morph with separate outputs for each.  
> 
> Not sure how many would agree with me that I think this is a 
> useful thing - but for instance, it would be the perfact companion 
> to a freq divider when used as a sub ovtave generator because 
> you wouldn't have to settle with the square wave output if you 
> didn't care to.
> 
> It's going to be a bit of a task to set it up so that the input 
signal is 
> 'just right ' for the waveshapers to fire up, but with the help of 
a 

> window comparator, attenuation knob and LED at the input stage 
> it would sail.
> 
> Any thioughts on this?
> 
> - P

ok, maybe my mind is wandering now also, but how close is this to something
from the old Mac app, SoundMaker's Synth-o-matic?
it seemed like a very simple process, but it converted any audio file into
Sine or Sawtooth or another waveform(selected from your own file)
Perhaps this is altogether different and just a simple resynthesis thing.
you could resynth the sound with your desired wave at every XX  period(s)
It was very simple but worked pretty well.

related or not, it sounds like a great idea!
best,
phil

> 
> --- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure
> that out)" <peter@b...> wrote:
>> 
>> My mind tends to wonder during the drudgery of soldering Plan
>> Bs and I got to thinking about a thing called a wavemaker, which
>> would take an external AC signal and shape it into a sine, tri,
>> saw , square and morph with separate outputs for each.