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Re: Continuum Voltage Converter

2006-11-25 by Gary Chang

Yes, I am looking forward to seeing it at NAMM in January....

What makes this box so cool is that it can send midi data to a
sequencer and then replay performances, all with the 16bit resolution
that it has in real time.

Back in the pre-microprocessor 70's, many of us used Subotnick's
"Player Piano Technique" - a method of taking control voltages and
recording them as variance or volume onto tape, later reconverting
those recordings back to control voltages via envelope followers. 
This allowed one to utilize more than one pass to create music detail
in a particular musical gesture.  (Utilizing sine waves carefully
tuned to the frequencies of the Buchla 295 10 channel fixed filter,
which had discrete outputs, one could eventually bounce up to 10
control voltages onto a single track - the original Ghost Compositions
were created in this fashion).

So, now, with the Haken Fingerboard and CVC, we can do this once
again, but now in digital domain!


gary



"Mensch" <noiselab@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> This is going to be a very interesting way for controlling an Wiard
system;
> http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/html/accessories/CVC.html
> 
> -Noiz
>

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