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> On an unrelated note, would anyone with a Socket Rocket care to give
> a quick review of the new chip? A must have? A rainy day purchase?
> Not worth the shipping?

hello all,
my socket rocket showed up in the post today (thanks john)
when i've gotten my tax / cassette transfer jobs over with i'm going to plug
it in an give it a whirl

i'd be glad to share my first impressions

cheers
paul b

Mike Marsh comments:

"A must have for the ESQ waves alone.  Then there's all the geek stuff
like MARF discriminator (what the hell is that?).  And of course
Morse Code (!) and Prayer Wheels.  Very good material for modulations
as well as VCO..."

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John Blacet
Blacet Research
http://www.blacet.com

> > On an unrelated note, would anyone with a Socket Rocket care to give
> > a quick review of the new chip? A must have? A rainy day purchase?
> > Not worth the shipping?

hello all,

okay a very brief first impressions review - as i've got 6 months worth of
invoices to write and someone's funeral recording to dump to cassette, and
it's very hard to concentrate...

so it's only $26 plus $3 shipping to the UK, it's easy to fit and it
instantly adds another 256 waveforms to your unit - it'd have to be pretty
shit not to buy it

the clipping functions are quite good - my bassline patch i have set up at
the moment instantly turned quite brassy
the ESQ functions are brilliant - it really does add an extra dimension to
my modular (allbeit a now a clone of a digital synth)...
will someone please tell me what the MARF function is..??!?
the morse loops are interesting - i'd imagine that a tempo sync-ed LFO or
ADSR in conjunction with this would add some interesting rhythmic elements
to a track

as you'd expect, there's tons of stuff here to trawl through - i'd say it's
definately worth it just for the ESQ alone, though it would have been nice
if there were a little more narrative on the waveforms - not too late for
that though eh john..?

cheers
paul b

"...a little more narrative on the waveforms - not too late for
that though eh john..?"


---I passed along what I got from Grant. He is not overly verbose about
what is on the chip!
Perhaps the best approach is to pretend they are alien artifacts...;>

Regards,
___________________
John Blacet
Blacet Research
http://www.blacet.com

If anyone wants to read up on the Buchla MARF, the manual is available here
for the time being.  If someone would like to host it on their site, please
let me know.

Romeo

-----Original Message-----
From: John Blacet [mailto:blacet@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:50 PM
To: MOTM List
Subject: Re: [motm] socket rocket


"...a little more narrative on the waveforms - not too late for
that though eh john..?"


---I passed along what I got from Grant. He is not overly verbose about
what is on the chip!
Perhaps the best approach is to pretend they are alien artifacts...;>

Regards,
___________________
John Blacet
Blacet Research
http://www.blacet.com




 

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