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WaveRider

Mon Jun 26 2006, 09:36AM

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I love it! Especially the Bach piece (too bad it's not longer)...Great work Finn and Steve!!!

Steve Conner

Mon Jun 26 2006, 09:41AM

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Thanks for posting that movie Finn!

And thanks for hiring me to design the musical bit. Anyway, we're not going to publish the schematics or tell you how it works. And the VST plugin has to wait till Terry Fritz can get 60fps out of his streamer modelling code.

HV Enthusiast

Mon Jun 26 2006, 11:48AM

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Awesome Steve. Geesh, you're even more goofy in person. Probably shouldn't have shot the video with you in it!

Just kidding.
Anyways, good work. Wonder if i can hook that thing up to a piano! Sounds like i may have to dig the ole DX7 out of the attic, if it still works.

Is there capability of of playing two-notes together, or do you have a lock-out feature which prevents that from happening?

Anyways, nice. Now you have both hobbies combined!

wrote ...

Great work! I actually thought I could be the owner of the first "musical DRSSTC" with my nanoDRSSTC, but as I see now, you have been building one before I only had the idea...

Plasmaniac,

The idea isn't new. In fact, both Steve's, and myself, as well as others, have already coupled a keyboard to the DRSSTC. But definitely not cool like this with the features Steve has incorporated. Also, Alan Sharpe had musical SSTCs going long before us.

ragnar

Mon Jun 26 2006, 12:11PM

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The "I give you this organ music--" clip, judging from the distortion when the camera goes near one of the coils is.... LOUD!

Huge volume of air being moved, in person you must be able to literally feel the sound... I love it!

Avalanche

Mon Jun 26 2006, 12:45PM

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That's incredible, just from watching the vids especially Finn's first vid. I can't imagine what it must be like to actually be in that room (apart from deafened

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So where is the whole system now? Is it going to be used for anything else?

Also, how did a Danish arts group find out that musical Tesla coils existed?

vasil

Mon Jun 26 2006, 12:51PM

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...Woo, your coils are cool Steve!"....

I will not be able to replicate this ever...:(

Steve Conner

Mon Jun 26 2006, 01:37PM

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Haha Dan. As soon as I get my teeth fixed, I'm coming over to America to kick your ass. Or to save the hassle I might just get Emilie Autumn to kick it for me.

The keyboard has a button to select monophonic or polyphonic mode. With one coil connected, it had to be set to mono mode and could only play one note at a time. I did try wiring up all six voices to the same coil so it could play chords, but that caused huge power draw. If you played a three note chord with middle C as the root, the coil ended up doing around 800bps on average. >_<

Musical SSTCs have been around for a while, true enough, but ours was the first to go up to 11.

Reaching

Mon Jun 26 2006, 02:53PM

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mhh, to bad that you cant give us an example, but thats no problem, i need only a few days to prove my variation of this, of course no midi but 2 octaves or someting like this to play with. with a slightly changed version of my pll interrupter that should be no problem.
ha, going to build a keyboard

Steve Ward

Mon Jun 26 2006, 04:18PM

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Yep, Conner's setup beats my simple zero cross detector that i used to pump sound from my DRSSTC. It did work with electric guitar and bass at very low volumes, but as i turned up the power, the noise from the DRSSTC would couple back to my input signal and cause it to go nuts. Finn has the right idea with fiber optic isolation. BTW, the coil sounded like the crunchiest guitar distortion you've ever heard... sorta interesting, but definately not within my musical tastes!

HV Enthusiast

Mon Jun 26 2006, 05:28PM

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Here is another MIDI controlled audio modulated DRSSTC system. Not sure who did it though.

http://members.thegeekgroup.org/~capper/midisch.html

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