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Matthew Davidson, one of the guys behind the Volta project is a pretty hardcore analog guy, but also has written some interesting applications in MAX for the Monome project.  An interesting composer as well....

Aside from the concepts of controlling "voices," there is quite a lot of interesting potential when considering the idea of using it to mangle recorded sounds outside of the DAW, but allowing a substantial amount of repeatability and codifying of stuff that we normally had used our hands for....

I always had thought that the Buchla 200e should have been made this way - an analog sound path with modules with digital guts that, instead of being complicated and finite digital hardware, had a firewire or parallel interface to a PC, so that there would be no limit to the digital side of the system....

gary





--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "drmabuce" <drmabuce@...> wrote:
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> i was wondering when one of these software outfits was going to realize that laaptops are getting to the point where they don't outweigh a PSIM by much!!!!
> ;'>
> an interesting pointer... thanks GC,
> -doc
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> (now, a whole bunch of my software-obsessed students will finally HAVE to learn the actual difference between AC & DC coupling....HA! serves 'em right!)
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> --- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chang" <gchang@> wrote:
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> > I have been beta-testing the MOTU application Volta for a few weeks, and have been able to take my Wiard System to a new and interesting place - a 4 voice polyphonic synth!!!
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> > Since Volta has precision envelopes that will replicate settings for multiple voices, it was relatively easy to create a simple patch - first by simply employing the VCA on each module - eventually expanding the patch to include a Borg II filter, which was also controlled by a second Volta Envelope Generator.  Once this was up and working, adding a second VCO and other interesting modulation ideas were simple, without a lot of attention to the interface....
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> > The results, while we are still working out tuning bugs here and there, are REALLY COOL!!!!  I will try to get something to post when I get a chance.
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> > YEEEEE!!!!!
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> > Gary
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