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Hi Mark
 --- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Griffiths <mark@...> wrote:
>
> Grant, this looks really interesting! One thing I'm not quite clear
on, you talk about the ability to draw visually..do you mean as on a
PC or contained somehow on the module itself?
>    
>   regards, Mark
>

please forgive the intrusion but my 'potentially hazardous
misconception' alarm went off about Grant's recent post on the very
point you raise (above). I trust the Professor will jump in and savage
me if i get this wrong but here goes...

i assume you are referring to this:

 
> Grant Richter <grichter@...> wrote:

> 
> The Wave256 software used to program the Waveform City and Mini-Wave
is also used to 
> program the Envelooper. The waveforms in a "Wave" are set up like
this for the 
> enveloopers four outputs; A1, A2, A3, A4, D1, D2, D3, D4, S1, S2,
S3, S4, R1, R2, R3, R4. 
> The programming rules are as follows; A(ttack) pages start at -128
and end at +128, D
> (ecay) pages start at +128 and end at 0, S(ustain) pages start and
end at zero, Release 
> pages start at 0 and end at -128. Following these programing rules
produce envelopes 
> with no audible "splice" when the device switches from one segment
to another.
> 

and this...


> I have posted the test PROM file in the files section called
adsr4.256 Use the 
> Wave256 software to view the segment designs. 

Prof. Richter is referring to a PC application called Wave256 and  not
an on-board software-driven user interface.
You can download Wave256 right now , free of charge, from this page:
http://www.wiard.com/support/support.html
and run it without any additional hardware. But the results will be a
wave image and that is all....

Wave256 is a nifty little Waveform creation application (for the
Windows platform only , thus far) and it DOES include a waveform
drawing option, but it's output is designed to send an image to an
EPROM burner. The envelooper (insofar as i understand it) uses an
EPROM chip to store it's waveshapes, (very much like the Waveform City
& Mini Wave) and the Wave256 PC software will squirt an image of your
custom-designed waveshape to an EPROM burner attached to a PC. From
there, the EPROM is burned, then you remove the EPROM chip from the
burner and install it into a socket (i presume) on the circuit board
of the envelooper. In order for this to happen the user has to obtain
their own EPROM burner *** and correctly install it on his/her PC. 
 As with the miniwave/Waveform City , i'm sure that Grant will include
an EPROM that is already loaded with banks of 'factory'-designed
waveshapes and the loading of user-created shapes is intended as an
OPTION. 
 i also know that there are devices that will fake the EPROM socket on
a miniwave into believing it is reading an EPROM chip when it is in
fact accessing a PC file directly through a ribbon cable but that's
about as close to a direct graphic interface as i believe can be
achieved. i've never actually used one of these EPROM simulation
gadgets but i've heard they exist.
  At any rate, i apologize if all this is already common knowledge to
you . i saw some room for misinterpretation in Grant's post and
decided that a quick clarification might nip some potential let-downs
in the bud , if not for you, then perhaps for others, and so...
If i'm full of shit on this point and there's gonna be a big honkin'
LCD touch screen on a frac-rack envelooper  module, i hope the
professor punches me in the nose publicly , Pronto! 
(and i'm gonna be dyin'to see a panel mock-up of that critter!)
(and the SRP!) 


best,
-doc


***(and ensure that it burns the type of EPROM used by the Wiard modules)