A few years ago, I salvaged the percussion generator board from an old cheapo Kimball organ that gave up the ghost a couple weeks after someone "thoughtfully" donated it to our church. I've had it kicking around as one of my "one of these days..." projects ever since, but now I'm working on a piece ...

Actually though, funny thing about that. When you really get down to it, a lot of things are actually discretized, per the current (very well tested) understanding of physics. That's quite literally what "quantum" means. Take that , analog purists. :razz: Yes, but what's the sample rate/bitdepth on...

Ah. The more you know.

Anyway, TTL and CMOS are digital because inputs and outputs are binary numbers. CMOS is just a design process, if we're gonna be OCD about it; AFAIK you can do analog circuitry in a CMOS IC. Also, didn't the EDP Wasp do something bonkers like kludge a handful of cheap digital-logic ICs into perform...

Aw. Post-Wake and pre-Larks Crimson is definitely my least favorite lineup, but Haskell had a nice voice and did good work with the material. May have to give Lizard a spin this evening.

Poked around for a bit on eBay looking at options for hardware reverb and ended up ordering a Boss RRV-10 instead. There's only one demo of it worth a damn on YouTube, but I'm digging the gritty early-digital character :) Looking forward to playing with it! Got here this afternoon. Being a budget u...

"Discrete logic" is the usual term to describe digital circuitry not implemented with LSI complex function chips or microprocessors. I'm not sure if there's a convenient term for mixed-mode stuff that uses small-scale analog ICs, but that's the tidiest term I can think of off-hand.

In additional to all those other points mskala mentioned, the pulse waveforms produced by saw- and triangle-core oscillators respond to PWM differently - with sawtooth-cores, one edge of the pule remains at the start of the cycle, while the other varies according to the pulse width. When pulse width...

Well, I need to verify this, but it sounds like the reverb unit I picked up is only pseudo-stereo anyway, so I can quite easily just run the wet and dry signals on the left and right going into my sound card to keep my options open...

Finally got around to poking at my Digitech TSR-24S in an attempt to see if I could fix it easily, and couldn't. Poked around for a bit on eBay looking at options for hardware reverb and ended up ordering a Boss RRV-10 instead. There's only one demo of it worth a damn on YouTube, but I'm digging the...

So I'm preparing to record a piece I've finally started seriously sketching out after toying with the idea in the back of my head for a while, and one thing I'm trying to sort out ahead of time is my recording process (not that I can't go back and re-do stuff if I need to, but I'm trying to improve ...

I've sold and bought back my Mk.I DX7 twice now. I learned my lesson; I'm not selling it a third time.

Ah, now I want to put on Minstrel in the Gallery...

My musical heroes are more of an older generation (but then, so were his - he learned tapping from watching Steve Hackett, after all,) but there's no question that he was one of the greats. A brilliant technical performer who could back up the flash-'n-dazzle with solid musical chops, unlike a lot o...

Shouldn't there instead be a disaparate collection of articles printed in a variety of page formats that you can bind together yourself?

This thread reminds me, I really need to play around with my eBow more.

Whatever sequence first really sparks my creative juices while I'm just mucking around having fun noodling. Second is usually the bassline, unless it was actually the first.

I had fun once with a patch that used key-triggered S&H fed by noise modulating the filter cutoff, getting a conventional filter-burble sound that didn't mess with the rhythm of the melody. Though it always managed to muff the wrong notes when I was sequencing the part, somehow I got through the rec...

Yeah, the heavy-duty bridge really does make a difference.

Yeah, gotta concur with the general sentiment - focus on learning to play and having fun with it, then start worrying about signal chains and whatnot.

The answer to "this instrument, or that instrument?" is always "yes!" :lol: But for me, while different designs do lend themselves better to different things, I think it's at least as much about getting a good instrument as it is about the type. I thought for a long time that I just didn't like P-ba...

The right direction? Zero-going. No, wait...positive-going. No, zero-going. Hang on, try negative-going. Wait...

A couple of options which are probably too far from what you are looking for: * a cheap guitar or lap steel * a Clavinet Clavinet and ostinati go together like wine and chocolate, for sure. Though it'd be kind of funny to hear as it's about the last thing I think of when I think of "minimalist" :lol:

There's an accordion museum in Superior, WI. Always meant to get over there when I was living in Duluth, never did.

"The bits with the wires and the knobs what make the noises."