Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy

["Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>]

"why emulate it...just use it."

Well, I did just that last year by adapting a toy circuit to stompbox use,
and in the words of Robert Quine "it makes the most offensive noise!" It's
like the pitch-to-voltage synth in that old Adrian Belew instructional
video. Choas in a box, and I've not heard anybody come close to it's
Chewbaccaesque vocoder-through-ringmod antics. No, a vocoder and a ringmod
still wouldn't be as effed up as this thing. But it wasn't easy. I came up
with the idea, but a friend at Lexicon did the real brain work of adapting
the circuit to guitar, and it still needs to be hit very hard with a big
compressed signal to overcome the gate which is built into the chip, but
that's part of the charm. 

Am I ready to go down that road again, adapting a toy to guitar use?
hmmmmmm.......the Nokia info is loking more and more intriguing...

~Tim


> [Original Message]
> From: Dean Stiglitz <deknow@netzero.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 1/27/2005 7:32:55 PM
> Subject: Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy
>
> ...i say, if you have the toy in the house, why emulate it...just use it.
> that said, i did recently read something about a vst plugin that is part
of
> the nokia development kit (free, but some back and forth confirmation
emails
> are required apparantly) that models the tiny speakers in cell phones (so
> you can hear your ringtone as it would sound on a real phone).
>
> deknow
>