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yes ..tho diy Vactrols is going to be preferable ...as for a polyphonic moog filter stack ...thats going to be quite a bit of money

Well how about that, after ages of no word from waldorf, they have some new product out which will be shipping very shortly. They have some new synths, the blofield.. etc. and have released the Q line (including the q+ ! below) in a really quite tasty overall finish for once (the really tacky plastic knobs have gone..). Im actually quite impressed with the aesthetics of the UI on the Phoenix edition, of the Q line ...gets my approval :) This is however a limited edition release.. i hope they keep the new dials & ditch the original cheesy menu dials when they go back to the conventional line again... more detailed pictures/renders here: http://www.waldorfmusic.de/assets/media/flyer_namm07_engl_v2.pdf Matrixsynth's blarge: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/search/label/PPG Waldorf: http://www.waldorfmusic.de/en/news some user songs created on the digital only q: http://www.waldorfmusic.de/assets/files/products/micro_q/audio_demos/pixel.mp3 http://www.waldorfmusic.de/assets/files/products/micro_q/audio_demos/offbeat.mp3 http://www.waldorfmusic.de/assets/files/products/micro_q/audio_demos/hope.mp3 http://www.waldorfmusic.de/assets/files/products/micro_q/audio_demos/bored.mp3 And some of their other new things: and.... errr... !

hmm.. you got a point there ..never thought of that ..photoresistor and led is a bloody good idea ! (only question would be over the potential range of resistance available)

shame ...its rather odd how i found afew places appearing to still sell their products (most not of updated their stocklists !) ...and hartmann's website does not make so much of an admission. Although i had heard something about this... This technology really needs to be picked up by someone competent like korg & perfected... its allot of fun :)

well... its hardly a lightweight application.. does some pretty cleaver stuff ...only i wish alex hartmann would pull his perverbial teams thumbss out of their backsides ..and get the vst plugin working flawlessly ...then, he may just have an extra legit customer for his software :) ..this 'ressurected reworked' wavestation business on a resynthesis slant, is rather fun to play with ! :) whats really interesting about this guy, is that he was also responsible for heading up the design on the original waldorf wave, the alesis andromeda & the waldorf q.. which isnt to be sniffed at i guess.

ah, now i read that question properly.. memory leak ..as in it eats up memory & then doesnt reallocate it correctly... Although this might possibly not be the case now; it sure as hell eats memory in general ...about 580mb when running..

just played with the vst version ...look no hardware ! ...heheh ..seems fine & doesnt eat up too much processor given what its doing. would appear so far that if there where any issues with the vst, they have been resolved (shrug) Update: it does indeed seem to crash a little more than i would expect.. (this has been reported on forums)

Been busy drooling over the hartmann neuron; not so keen on some of the UI design.. tho in terms of arcitecture its interesting ...sort of a VS with extra cleaver functionality: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug03/articles/hartmannneuron.htm Sound demos: http://www.aliens-project.de/t_200302_neuron.html Now heres the punchline... whats under the lid ? http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/02/inside-hartmann-neuron.html more inside pics here: http://www.sequencer.de/syns/hartmann/Neuron.html EH ! Well i was somwhat supprised to say the least... £3.5k for an Socket A Athlon PC with 256mb of pc133 & a hard drive... erm this deal seems a little steep.. tho it looks like a synthesizer geeks ideal reverse engineering projoect ;) ...anyone fancy butchering its firmware to work in a standard rackmount pc ..or stick a mios interface on it ? ;) ...sure that wouldnt come to £3.5k in parts ;) ..i would otherwise suggest a more parctical solution of runnning the vst plugin version on a rackmount pc running linux and a vst host ..tho apparently the currrent plugin version has got memory hole issues... (how annoying..)

it sounds like most sids and fms do i expect... maybe putting it to use soon as band is working on some new material ...looking for a good excuse to sneak it in somewhere.

lol.. Btw i read word there off wiki tutorials on the buttons ? ...please feel free to go ahead and create that topic; tho if folks would like me to collate the bits togeather myself & see to it.. then can do.. as the same questions keep on popping up everywhere..

many moons ago i used to be into shortwave and general scanner noseyness ...tho mainly it was just a good place to go get parts to feed my electronics hobby in general..

...its a Variable Voltage Mains power supply ...built in afew evenings from a Cheaply adquired Variac & a bunch of rally components :) Its for testing equipment in under and over voltage conditions... This build has got nothing to do with mios, tho it might interest some :)

heheh.. good one :) (hmmm.. just changed the thread title to something a little less pedantic) ...iv'e not exactly been known for starting projects ...and finishing them on time ..tho lately been making amens for that.. so you never know. As noted will clearly define and split the project up into units which would be useful as individual projects anyways.. anything involved other people are welcome to have a crack at. ..might actually make it into reality a little quicker if so. The soundcard wont be built in per se.. itd be unessursarily restrictive to box a nice rackmount soundcard (focusrite saphire pro anyone ?) in the same case... Mind to save cable hopping, theres no reason that the signal patch bay cant be used to switch the main soundcard i/o's away from the filters to some standard connectors.. to allow further flexabillty. the oberhiem project sounds sweet :) First filters in the box are arp2600's and moogs ...the moog one has a resonance pot (from what i recall) ...which will need CV'ing by the way of something like a transconductance opamp. Also if i recall its a pot with a 'weird' lineartity curve ...so the circuit design could get 'interesting' for that..

asda and most of the big food chains where reularly printing their own bit of native engrish.. 'Warning: May contain nuts' (i sure hope so..) ..on every bag of peanuts in the country :]

haha... mind for more weirdness in that vain; check out: http://www.engrish.com/ ...ah ...oh ..this post was about lazertran right ? :)

well, no digs alls... ...tho the first box of tea-candles i saw with a full legal disclaimer and a multipage document on safe use came from america ....uhhmm !

heheh ..lol ..just you wait ..midiboxing will be somewhere in their disclaimer...

Digs out tub... the exact title of the working varnish is: 'Ronseal - quick drying varnish (clear natural finish for interior wood) - clear satin'

hi, yes lazertran is picky stuff.. however cracking and blistering (to any huge degree) i have not encountered ...its possibly a reaction to the way the gum holds to the vitrail. I applied mine onto aluminum finished with (very lazy) plasticote matt white 1 part spray paint.. seems to get along fine. You may also find (although it doesnt logically explain whats happened) ..that you soak your lazertran for too long ...just need to soak it in room temp water for long enough to free the backing and not dissolve the gum ...apply and align ..leave to dry. any segnificant Bubbles that occur need to be gently rolled out by hand ...or released with careful use of a pin prick Provided that the cracks dont break up the artwork ..and the bubbles arent too major ...then you should find that they dissapear on applying an overcaot varnish (the lazertran goes somewhat more transparent). I use ronseal waterbased satin (?) varnish (to avoid melting the artwork with solvents) ...and apply with a small painters foam roller ...avoids brush strokes ..and gives a wonderful, fine orange peel finish which hardly shows :)

cool.. both very interesting projects... Marc Bareille's widget is curious (i'd buy/build it just to look at ;) ...not quite what im aiming at tho.. Will get back to people on what im doing about this project, and draw up a spec to work from.. Probably going to split things into sections that anyones free to have a go at if they wish too.. ..if its not already been done ..in which case adaptations in places maybe appropriate ...will see.

yup.. tho none of those expect or encourigee you to 'lift up the bonnet..' ;)

sweeet.

Hi... Curious Moxi :) On the mixing and phasing issues.. that will be avoided by two things.. One, in this instance any mixing of resultant signals would be done in the digital domain of a pc.. Two Particular attention would be paid to making sure that other signals in the virtual mix are delayed by the ammount of time that it takes for the resultant signals to come back in the soundcard... A fair bit of software is already capable of soing this by default i beleive (tho i might be mistaken..) As for using such a thing as a stand alone synth, building excellent filters and then sticking a shoddy mix down on the end would be a crime.. so good circuit design a must for such a module..

hmm... new topic catogory weee ! :) Just nothing that ive got some of the peliminary hardwardware built to start experimenting with making a self contained, Filter bank Controlled by the usual CV modules ...however also integrating signal switching/routing to facilitate full automation and recall of setups. The intention of this project is to create a modular system; which pretty much any combination of filters and other cv compatable hardware can be dropped directly into the rack case... And be selected for hooking into a pc as a 'Hardware Plugin' ..by using a multichannel soundcard in duplex mode to send sound out for processing & capture the result at the same time. an equal number of ins and outs would be nice ie 16in/16out.. 8in/8out.. even 2in/2out... if the budget wont strech far enough ! (infact, theres no reason for that matter, why this couldnt be used to build a complete stand alone modular analog synth with full routhing and automation too.. just a choice of modules) Currently Have built one of the CV modules; fully working (+ oled display ;) ) ...with another to finish ...see shabby cam pic below: And am in the process of finishing building afew analog filters... Everything will be mounted into a temporary case whilst all the really tedious tinkering happens.. Not on a mad rush with this one, quite yet (need to learn some rudimentry code for hacking mios for one) ...so dont expect results too soon... Tho any input and discussion on the matter is welcome.. Things that need defining and refining to make this work properly (as well as prove useful for other projects).. Are tracking down appropriate parts to make affordable Signal switchers (absolutely mandatory!) & also a viable way to multiplex CV channels ..or at least make CV channels cheap somehow ! (some of this discussed elsewhere..) As a side issue, may need to use transconductance opamps to CV'ify various (filter, etc) controls which where not setup for this originally. ...other option of using digitally contrrolled resistors (PGA chips) probably wont work in most instances... introduce artifacts & further complicate the hardware involved. ...reasoning to the contuary welcome of course :) The idea being to avoid the need to manually set anything (front pannel should be a collation of blinking lights at the most ;) ...realtime control can be done through a Midi control surface if it is needed :) Anyways thats all for now. UPDATE: Current INITIAL panel design... with some further refinements and explaination to come ...have started moddding the case already ..btw this is a smoked perspex bonanza ;) (Raised front bezel comes forward by 1/2 inch - Case from Scrap Recycled, HP Infered Laser source/psu) Scematic of internal workings, eight channels of audio in and out (provided by a maudio 1010lt), filters/cv controllable analog thingys grouped togeather in (8) banks of 4. only one 'filter' selectable per an audio channel, two cvs & hard wired trigger can be used where nessusary (ie when installing a VCO). An audio/router is needed to juggle signals around as illistrated, per a bank this will require (in and out) switching of 4 channels between 4 destinations ('filters') Suggestions on practical solutions here are welcome ...got some ideas already :) oh, and the led panel is connected upto the CV & Trigger sources to indicate status.. along with audio in and out levels for the 8 i/o chains.. with the assistance of a vu chip per a bunch of leds (signal indiction below their range provided by plain led)) ...oh and of course indication of which 'filter' is slected needs to be tapped off from the appropriate place. right thats all for now..

er ...Dear God ! (..says the agnostic)