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Re: Re: Re: Laptops
At 3:28 PM -0400 6/14/07, burnett@pobox.com wrote:
>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.
Holy crap! I think you're actually onto something there.
At the very least, it should get you a write-up on the Create Digital
Music and Music Thing blogs. Nice publicity, and it sounds like a
fun project besides!!!
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