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Re: Continuum Voltage Converter

2006-11-25 by drmabuce

It's an intriguing gadget but "TBA" is a very large number!
;'>
(i wonder if they posted schematics anywhere????)
double-;'>
!!!!
-doc




--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chang" <gchang@...> wrote:
>
> 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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