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This is great, love the pacing and the editing, the voice-over seems fluid and coherent. Perhaps I'm not the target audience, but you seem to make the assumpti
by BeefySwain 8y ago
This is great, love the pacing and the editing, the voice-over seems fluid and coherent.
Perhaps I'm not the target audience, but you seem to make the assumption that the viewer is familiar with the use case for this device. What I was able to gather from the video is that this device allows you to generate triggering audio/midi (?) in a more "organic" way than with something like a drum pad?
- pavel_lishin 8y agoYeah, looks like every time the light sensor detects a bright color on the wheel, it triggers a drumbeat. This seems like it would be a great project to build with a kid.
- scarecrowbob 8y agoA lot of the cool parts of music making in modular systems comes from injecting complexities that you can't quite fully reason through. So in this case, the disk is a bit more complex than just using a clock and some switches to send out a trigger signal, -- it's less reliable and less precise. But those are positive traits because it's easy enough to get a reliable, precise sequencer. For what it's worth, all this device is sending out is a trigger pulse, which can be hooked to anything that would find a pulse like that useful... that's what is cool about modular synths. So you could use it to "trigger audio" by hooking that trigger pulse to an envelope generator, but you could just as easily hook it to the "reset" of another sequencer and have it start a sequence over with every pulse. Or you could hook it to a flip-flopping swithc and have it, say, turn on and off the reverb in time with whatever is on the disc... it's a really fun (albeit expensive) way to make music.