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Re: Re: Re: Laptops
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Mech wrote:
> At 2:59 PM -0400 6/14/07, burnett@pobox.com wrote:
>>
>> Off to design a Whack-a-Mole MIDI controller,
>
> ROTF LMAO!!!
>
> Let me know when you start calling for beta testers. :)
Actually, this might be fun to do. When I wrote that, I was thinking of
the new Z-Vex Ringtone effect pedal.
The Ringtone has 8 ring modulator circuits, wired to a sequencer. It has a
random feature where the signal is routed randomly on a fixed timeslice
schedule, and it also has a stomp button for a linear step mode where the
signal passes to each of the 8 in linear sequence, and you stomp to step
the signal from ringmod 1 to ringmod 2, stomp again to pass the signal to
3, then so on.
So if the Ringtone's randomizer activates a pop-up "mole" of 8 moles
instead of lighting up the LED, and the whack passes the signal to the
next random "mole", that becomes a large controller for the Ringtone.
Or: have all the moles "up", use velocity-sensitive to control length
of note, and use the Whack-a-Mole to control a set of floor bass pedals
(the old Taurus bass floor synth kind of design).
best,
Steve Burnett Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/