VLOG 113 floppy floppy flooo flaaaa
Added 2020-04-13 20:57:14 +0000 UTCoops! put kitsunes video as the main on the post! my bad. here we go.
excuse the blisters! its all of that hammering out brickwork the other day my hands weren't used to it haha!
as for this video. the further its progressing it seems each floppy drive is gunna need a microcontrollers. there are many aspects I think making a good mellotron that the floppy needs a bit of a help in hand with, including capturing the motor start up for the "attack" and also length of sample and back to zero. lots to look into on this project! but ill keep you updated on it!
as for links
jeri :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpr7B-7BFP4
kitsune :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziVXF_tM4Gw
all 3 are variations of the same idea, but im planning to work it into a functioning instrument. fingers crossed!
Comments
yeah good idea too! only downside is I need twice as many drives!!! but im not shy of hard projects. so ill give it a go :)
Look Mum No Computer
2020-04-18 22:38:02 +0000 UTCBit late to the party here, but I had a bit of a drunken thought - what if you hooked 2 drives up to avoid the gap when stepping.... The idea being that when the index on drive A triggers, it somehow switches input/output to drive B, then steps drive A making it ready to be switched back to. Then when the index on drive B triggers, it switches back to drive A, then steps drive B. And so on and so . So a kind of buffering system to avoid the gap when stepping a single drive. Meh. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about - but it's an idea.
marcnet
2020-04-18 22:36:58 +0000 UTCI think as it stands each drive will have a sample of a key, whatever the key is, it'll have a long enough sample to be a few seconds long, so could sample piano's even.
Look Mum No Computer
2020-04-14 10:40:09 +0000 UTCWill each drive be a preset note? or will they be able to react to CV input?
Mike in Texas
2020-04-14 01:51:41 +0000 UTC
