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Grant, 

when you say stylophone keyboard, do you mean one that would be played with
a pen or wand of some sort - or do you mean a touch keyboard of some sort
that works with direct finger contact.  How large will the keys be?

Romeo

on 10/27/01 8:55 AM, grantrichter2001@yahoo.com at
grantrichter2001@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> All the Woggle Bug orders will have shipped by next week. Seven
> of them have shipped this week.
> 
> The Micro Wiard is going through a metamorphasis. I had
> origianlly intended to offer it as a 300 series module. Now I am
> going to try and offer it as an inexpensive ($199) desktop unit. It
> is intended to have a keyboard like a stylophone.
> 
> I am still trying to debug the keyboard action for stability. The
> biggest problem is trying to figure out how to keep the price
> down, but still make lots of patch options available for
> experimenters. This version will also use surface mount
> technology for size and cost reduction.
> 
> The Enveloopers module is intended to answer the question
> "How do you loop an ADSR envelope?". It will be a dual module,
> and each envelope will have three modes.
> 
> The first mode is a standard ADSR with delay, or DADSR there
> will be an end pulse available and the two can be looped in AR
> mode with delay (kind of like the Synthi).
> 
> The second mode is modeled after the MS-20, where the "delay"
> control is now used as a "hold" monostable. This will be
> loopable as a classic ADSR with adjustable gate time.
> 
> The third mode is modelled after the Moog Satellite synth. The
> AD envelope repeats at a rate set by the delay control, and the
> output is modulated by the SR controls to for the "echo"
> envelopes of a digital delay. Rather nice in my humble opinion.
> 
> The release dates of these two have been all bollocks up by the
> Sept. 11th disaster. But the plan is still to release them as funds
> become available (it takes about $2500 to tool up for a new
> module).
> 
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