Dotcomformat

so the bugs in the firmware have been ironed out (thank you det3) and  
i got a burr up it to make a demo vid et cetera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNN3e4l7Wjo

this demonstrates the Time Buffer, Trigger Mini-Store, and Voltage  
Mini-Store working in concert with a x0xb0x, CR8K, and RX5.

there's lots of boring banter as well. in fact it takes up the  
majority of the video, but i'm just not web 2.0 enough to bother with  
video annotations etc., and i needed to explain what was going on and  
the design impetus before hitting "RUN" on the x0xb0x.

check it out if you'd like. the modules will be ready soon. a metric  
butt-load of PC-mount toggle switches are here already (yeah. PC- 
mount toggles. sorry, but it makes this go from very-difficult-to- 
build-and-too-expensive-to-afford to more-expensive-than-you-might- 
like-yet-definitely-affordable-and-BTW-feasible-to-actually-sell-and- 
we'll-include-courtesy-pads-for-servicing-in-the-year-2030) and we're  
waiting on the PC-mount potetiometers for the Voltage Mini-Store (a  
friend of mine is a switch distributor who's a good talker,  
unfortunately he doesn't also deal in passives or they too would  
already be here), so i'm not comfortable promising even an available- 
for-ordering date but as you can see this is a fully-functional  
concept and worthy of interest and investigation.

there are two more modules in the initial family. one of them will  
allow you to change the length of up to 3 mini-stores and control  
certain basic behaviours necessary to make it a Turing-complete  
sequencing system, and the other is a clock divider (the Time  
Divider, obviously) that works in a musically-useful fashion. they  
are not part of the video so you may be disappointed. however, i'm  
pretty sure these modules along with a Q960/Q119 or four would make a  
sequencing system both Joel Chadabe and Peter Baumann would covet  
back when they used such things.

also, i'm running a backlogue of ten units right now so i'm sorry if  
you're offended that i spent time with this tonight, but my  
excitement was uncontainable.

(this message is crossposted to both lists as there are only ten  
people on the dotcomformat list and twenty billion on the  
synthesizerscomgroup list. good god this was long-winded ... maybe  
you're still reading.)
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Suit & Tie Guy
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