Re: Sought after effect

[Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us>]

Oops!  I forgot that this was LD and not some synth list where you'd 
have a synth on your table guaranteed.  But if you have any knobby box 
already at hand and can program it to send whatever the Whammy wants to 
see, then you're golden!  Have your electronics whiz friend whip up a 
pitchbend wheel scrounged from a dead synth and some electronics to 
encode wheel position and convert to MIDI.

Cheers,

Bill

Matt Davignon wrote:
> Good thinking, but table space is a concern. What I'd really like to
> do is saw the pitch wheel off a synthesizer, and attach an input and
> output to it. Ah well, eventually I'll probably coerce one of my
> electronically-creative oriented friends into building me something
> like that.
> Right now I just got a Kaoss pad, which sort of has similar
> functionality on a few of its settings.
>
> Matt
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 4:54 AM, Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us> wrote:
>   
>> Matt Davignon wrote:
>>     
>>> Can anybody tell me if this exists?
>>> I'm looking for a stand-alone version of a pitch wheel from a synth.
>>> It'd let me do expressive pitch bends on anything I plug into it, but
>>> snap back into place when I let it go. That's it.
>>> The closest thing I've found is the "Whammy" pedal - pretty close to
>>> what I need, but I'm looking for something hand-operated. Anyone?
>>>       
>> Hi Matt,
>> Could you use the pitch wheel on a synth and send its MIDI output to the
>> Whammy?  The manual says that MIDI can control the (virtual) pedal
>> position!  Wheeee!!!!
>> Cheers,
>> Bill