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Howdy!

I just added a picture of our Sawtooth 
Animator to the Miscellaneous Album 
in this Group's Photos section.  It's the
same electronics package as the new
Dotcom however it is shown with an 
Motm front panel and knobs. (All we
do is mount the Dotcom Panel and 
knobs along with a power connector 
adapter to this same assembly shown
and viola... instant Dotcom format!)
So you can see how close we are to 
actually shipping...

With all of the sampling that goes on
I must admit that I'm a bit shy about
posting lots and lots of sound samples
and will start offering a few more in the 
future.   

Aside from the obvious use as a sound
fattener for when you want your system
to sound ten feet taller, here's a less 
obvious use for these Animators.

They have an internal frequency-to-
voltage converter that continuously
watches the frequency or pitch of the 
INPUT Signal and this adjusts the speed
of the six internal LFOs accordingly so 
that there is no lone "sweet spot" on the 
keyboard (as there was in the original 
ElectroNotes design years ago) and 
instead ours has a continuous sweet 
spot that is the full range or length of 
the entire keyboard. 

I love to make a weird feedback loop
by feeding a VCO into the Animator, 
and then using one of the six LFO 
Outputs to modulate the same VCO 
feeding it.  This can gyrate into some
wild sounds, the very best of which is 
when you pull the LFO patchcord out
 thus breaking the feedback loop and 
listen to the oscillator totally loose it's 
mind and the whole patch goes through 
dramatic death throws ever lowering and
lowering frequency until it is back to
normal.  It is a wild effect and I've 
thought a great dramatic way to end a
 live show.  It would be a gas to try this
with a whole rak full of Oscillators and 
Animators.  

I see the Sawtooth Animators as 
especially desirable for Synthesizer.com
users in particular as there aren't really 
any dedicated LFOs available in these 
systems, and any complexity of modulation
is at the expense of loosing a VCO for 
sound creation, so instead of buying six
more Oscillators you can just buy one 
Sawtooth Animator. No matter how 
frugal, I think anyone can see the savings
implied!

Best Wishes, and thank you all for your 
comments and suggestions today!

Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!

Cynthia

http://www.cyndustries.com/