Wiardgroup

"drmabuce" <drmabuce@...> wrote:
>
 The method of
> pattern generation just described is very different than the
> sample/hold method used by the I.D. (and MANY other RVG is modular
> synth history). 
> Most importantly, this method yields a very different character of
> output patterns than a sample/hold-based design produces. The noise
> sources are never sampled directly  and thus, the output SOUNDS
> different from sample/hold-based output. 

The Buchla "Sources of Uncertainty' is the seminal circuit that
employs a similar use of noise (as a modulator of the sampled source,
rather than the noise being the sampled source itself), and a
recursive structure that can create suprisingly musical patterns in
the name of UNCERTAINTY, which I think is a better term than RANDOMNESS.

I think that Uncertainty is the key to Grant's Woggle Bug and Noise
Ring.  Simple randomness is found on virtually every synthesizer -
Uncertainty is found on the Buchla and the Wiard.


gary