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Re: [synthesizerscomgroup] new demo video: Time modules

2008-07-30 by Martin Peters

I get the message 'This video is unavailable.'. No video?

Regards, Martin

Suit & Tie Guy wrote:
>
> 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 
> <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.)
> ---
> Suit & Tie Guy
> suitandtieguy.com
> stgsoundlabs.com
>
>

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