RE: [motm] OT - Anyone here from Quasimidi?
2000-12-29 by Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)
I think that s not quite true. I don t know about being bought up, but I think they are still releasing the SunSyn. I could be, and often am, wrong. --PBr
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Re: [motm] OT - Anyone here from Quasimidi?
2000-12-29 by bigd@buffalo.com
FYI, They were bought by a another company and an no longer make music instruments , last i heard. Jim
OT - Anyone here from Quasimidi?
2000-12-29 by ivancu@aol.com
I thought I remembered seeing a MOTM list member that is with Quasimidi. If so I ve got a few questions for them if they would be so kind as to e-mail me.
Re: [motm] Re: Custom Panels next run?
2000-12-29 by J. Larry Hendry
... Same in Indiana. So, I took the week off vacation and am building the 5 modules I received on Christmas day. When I get done with that I expect Dave
Re: Custom Panels next run?
2000-12-29 by Dave Bradley
Well, I can t even contemplate the prospect yet... I m still hip deep in orders to be mailed, I haven t done any drilling yet, the Post Office employees groan
Re: [motm] Big DIY panel Image, Delete if too large for U
2000-12-29 by sikorsky
From: thomas white ... gate ... ah... ... it s the same panel fitting, the only problem is you ll have to dismantle your 181 to
Re: [motm] Custom Panels
2000-12-29 by bigd@buffalo.com
Any idea when the next run of panels will be ? Happy New Year Jim
Custom Panels
2000-12-29 by improv@peak.org
The mail-person just dropped off my custom panel order (Blacet Time Machine, Oakley Mixer, 822 voltage shifter). These things look great! Way, way beyond my
Re: [motm] resonating bodies
2000-12-29 by ivancu@aol.com
http://www.ief.u-psud.fr/~thierry/history/gray/gray1.html Fun in your tub, electronic music style. Ivan
Re: [motm] Big DIY panel Image, Delete if too large for U
2000-12-29 by jwbarlow@aol.com
The panel looks good (though I d have used a darker shade of black ). How did you legend and paint the panel? JB
RE: [motm] resonating bodies
2000-12-29 by Tkacs, Ken
Many years ago I used to hang out with an older guy that owned a music store (he was trying to get a Hawaiian band started as I remember). He told me that in
Re: [motm] Big DIY panel Image, Delete if too large for U
2000-12-29 by sikorsky
From: thomas white ... at ... like it (having only just wired my 181 up a couple of weeks ago) is the lettering dry transfer, or
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-29 by norman fay
Amazing that no-one s mentioned this - the Ondes Martenot 1930 s electronic keyboard was used with a couple of speciality speakers - the palme had a
Big DIY panel Image, Delete if too large for U
2000-12-29 by thomas white
Well I finally got my free digital camera from Earthlink so I took this picture to show my Roland M-181 panel set up. Hope you enjoy and are good at decifering
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-29 by J. Larry Hendry
It would seem to me that the accuracy would not be so hot since the resistance is so low. I would also think a guitar string might vary significantly from one
update to Hot Rod MOTM Shop website
2000-12-29 by Dave Bradley
If I can tear everybody away from guitar strings and resonating tubes for a moment, I d like to announce that I ve updated my MOTM site with a few goodies: -
Re: [motm] resonating bodies
2000-12-29 by davevosh@aol.com
In a message dated 00-12-28 17:32:35 EST, you write:
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-29 by jwbarlow@aol.com
Very cool, Frank. Does this device still exist? Of course this set up (minus the top octave generator) would be perfect for what we ve been talking about here.
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-29 by Al Wagner
Hmmm.. A guitar string has resisitance... I wonder... What if you had a CV circuit where the positive end was connected to a guitar string, and that guitar
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-29 by J. Larry Hendry
... Right, which will be at least close to total Z. ... Well, there is no such thing as a non-inductive conductor in a AC circuit. However, I do admit that
Re: [motm] resonating bodies
2000-12-29 by jwbarlow@aol.com
I hope no one is terribly bothered that we are so OT here. ... I ve never heard this but it sounds possible. It might be worth trying out. Yet another story:
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by Frank Vanaman
Hi Y all! Well, since this thread is still going, here s something else that s sorta neat, though a one-trick pony: Some time ago, I had a set of tuned steel
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by ivancu@aol.com
In a message dated 12/28/00 11:37:57 AM, jlarryh@iquest.net writes:
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by ivancu@aol.com
In a message dated 12/28/00 11:07:20 AM, celesteh@casaninja.com writes:
resonating bodies
2000-12-28 by binky beetlebaum
Something Barlow said triggered a dormant brain cell, & I remembered something from a long ago eno interview about him having set up an array of different
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by J. Larry Hendry
... Electromagnetic fields can be generated around a wire. However, what is required is that current actually pass through the string / wire. It is the
Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by jwbarlow@aol.com
... This is a good start on one of the ideas that I mentioned. When I was about 8 years old, I accidentally plugged the mic from a tape deck into the external
RE: stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by Celeste H
I was thinking that the signal going down the wire would generate an electric field around the string and that would make the pickups go, just like the
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks (Cello body?)
2000-12-28 by jwbarlow@aol.com
Kinda interesting ideas from everyone along these OT lines here. Maybe Larry can take out a hole saw and mount a speaker in his wife s cello while she s out of
RE: [motm] more stupid guitar crap
2000-12-28 by Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)
Quite a few bands do this, actually. In the SF bay area, there is (was?) a band called Scar Tissue... Phil, the guitar player , never actually plucked or
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks (Cello body?)
2000-12-28 by J. Larry Hendry
There might be something to say for this. The best brass sounds I ever heard were produced by a driver with a horn attached that looked just like the bell of
more stupid guitar crap
2000-12-28 by binky beetlebaum
Several things: I had a friend who would play his bass with a, um, vibrator. Very interesting, as the guitar pickup picks up the vibrations of the motor
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks (Cello body?)
2000-12-28 by elhardt@aol.com
... heard were produced by a driver with a horn attached that looked just like the bell of a trumpet.
[motm] stupid electronics tricks (Cello body?)
2000-12-28 by elhardt@aol.com
I posted the following to the AH list, but nobody actually tried it and responded back. Now that there is a similar thread going on here, I ll try it on this
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by jwbarlow@aol.com
Yeah! We were talking about this several months ago -- great collection! I think this would be a good overview for anyone with even the most elementary
RE: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by Tkacs, Ken
... Well, if it _didn t_, it wouldn t be *rock n roll!*
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by baron swodeck
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Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by alt-mode
... A nearly 7 minute edit of the Lucier piece is available on the 3 CD collection Ohm: the early gurus of electronic music: 1848-1980 from Elipsis Arts.
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by J. Larry Hendry
This is one of the most thought provoking questions I have heard in quite sometime. Since Eric has pointed out some of the facts and how the guitar pick up is
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by jwbarlow@aol.com
I agree with Eric. I ll try and answer the questions too! First, is this Lucier piece available now? BTW, I never was able to get that Henry Music for a Door
Re: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by alt-mode
Celeste, The output of the MOTM is an electrical signal, not a mechanical signal. So, it won t vibrate the string (well, not at the voltages from the MOTM;
stupid electronics tricks
2000-12-28 by Celeste H
i was listening to Alvin Lucier s _Music on a Long Thin Wire_ and i got the idea that it might be possible to run the output from MOTM modules down guitar
[motm] Jacks
2000-12-27 by Tkacs, Ken
Hey, I saw the ultimate in the Mouser catalog last night. You know how jacks over time can pick up dust and tarnish? Mouser has these hinged caps that go over
Re: [motm] 300 VCO soft sync mod?
2000-12-27 by J. Larry Hendry
The official MOTM soft sync mod is to put a 4K7 resistor in series with the sync jack connection. This shows up in the latest revision to the 300
Re: [motm] 300 VCO soft sync mod?
2000-12-27 by jwbarlow@aol.com
That s it Larry! Thanks! I probably do have an updated instruction manual since I didn t buy my VCOs at the same time. The manual that I looked at didn t have
Re: [motm] Re: 300 VCO soft sync mod?
2000-12-27 by jwbarlow@aol.com
... Cause, they re driving me..... BANANAS! I used em so they d be compatible with the Serge and my diy stuff (such as it is). But Paul is putting in too many
Re: 300 VCO soft sync mod?
2000-12-27 by Dave Bradley
Inquiring minds want to know - why are you changing out your jacks? Moe ... handy? I m ... switches -- I ... Universe ... dangling off
300 VCO soft sync mod?
2000-12-27 by jwbarlow@aol.com
Does anyone have the latest (best?) soft sync mod for the 300 handy? I m finishing changing out my jacks (and replacing my substandard switches -- I broke em
RE: [motm] Sequenced parts / Work Habits
2000-12-26 by Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)
Heh, this sounds exactly like what I do. This way I make sure I ve got all the right parts. But I just use the styrofoam that the ICs from previous kits came
Re: [motm] MOTM-101 report
2000-12-26 by markus
... paul, would you mind stating what the new opamp is, (is it the same pinout as the old-- is a straight swap possible?) ... good idea. -mark