Dark Matter Audio: Will N - Viewing Profile

Sweet mate, nice one!

Yeah, I reckon that's the way to go eventually: prototype on nord modular/reaktor/maxmsp, then write code for a microprocessor, then have a rotary encoder feed the processor along with some pots for a few parameters and maybe some buttons (retrigger cycle or something). I'd like to have a proper look at that patch you've made man, I'm on a mac though can nord go on mac?

To be honest though that's all a whole new project in itself, whereas for this thing it doesn't warrant that much complexity/control. I've been playing around trying to squeeze a workable control voltage from the output of the wind-up charger, but the way the circuit is set up at the moment its not easy to get it to work in a way that's at all satisfying, whereas what might work better is if I turned the handle into a kind of 360 degree pot, and used that to do the jobs of the current pots. I'd have a strip of resistive material make a circle, then have the handle pull a conductor round the circle. You could make it form different waveforms (of resistance vs time) depending on whether the circle was complete and where you placed the non-moving conductor on the strip (for instance having the fixed conductor on the break point of an uncomplete circle would make a saw tooth wave, then completing the circle by connecting end to end would make a triangle wave).

EDIT: Just downloaded g2 demo for mac. nice.

Does it have USB? If so, it would be really cool to connect to a computer/flash drive and record directly to it. Or going the other way could it play backing tracks from a hard drive?

Long before its manifestation in reality it was dubbed The Nightingale Betterizer, but you may be onto something there with the Frightingale Modulator...

That is pretty much exactly what I've been making, right down to the lights, beeps and sort-of music.

Except no shed, which means my bedroom is full of junk, tools and milions of tiny bits of wire cut-off.

Its only on a breadboard at the mo and I'm not finished adding bits but one day soon it will be housed in its own glorious casing with go faster stripes. I might even make it pink.

There's a pic attached, its basically a dub siren circuit with knobs so far for: volume, pitch, LFO rate, LFO amplitude. There's switches/buttons for: LFO waveform (triangle and a kind of mix between triangle and square), rate doubler, trigger and sync LFO to trigger. Its also got the obligatory flashing LED which tells you how fast the LFO's going. Oh and its powered by a wind up charger so it kind of feels like an electronic air raid siren, the aim is to get the speed at which you turn the handle to modulate the different parameters but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet (I've always wanted hand-crank controls for a synth, I reckon its an overlooked interface).

In terms of sound, its pretty cheap and dirty but Its my first project of this kind so that's allowed.. plus it means you can make gabba with it which is always a bonus