Re: emulating a cheap sampling toy

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

The obvious reason to emulate, in my humble opinion, is so you can save 
state as part of a global preset for your rig (assuming you use a 
master controller of some kind like a MIDI pedal) and also avoid 
another failure point.

I'm big on the one-button total-recall thing.

-Alex S.

On Jan 27, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Timothy Mungenast wrote:

> "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
>>
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