Thursday, April 05, 2007
Retrosynth PPG MiniROM for Blacet Wiard Miniwave
YouTube via therealretrosynth, aka Cary Roberts of Retrosynth.com.
"This is a demo of the Retrosynth MiniROM loaded with PPG wavetables courtesy of Jason Proctor. The Miniwave is being driven from the sawtooth output of a Serge PCO scaled and offset through an audio mixer and scaling buffer. The wave select on the Miniwave is modulated by a Universal Slope Generator with gain and offset from a CV mixer. The output of the Miniwave is patched directly into the dual channel stereo mixer module for final level adjustment and then it's off to a small Roland MA-8 monitor."
Update via retrosynth in the comments:
"There are 64 waves in each PPG wavetable bank and a stock Blacet Miniwave can only do 16 waves per bank. Plus there are only 16 banks in a stock Miniwave. The board I made allows for 32 banks of 64 waves each. That's 8X more samples per ROM. Jason Proctor provided me the wavetables. I'm just the hardware monkey that made them fit in a Miniwave socket. Some pictures here: [link]"
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Where can I buy this ROM for my Miniwave ?
ReplyDeleteHow is this different from the Grant Richter PPG/VS set offered by David Hylander?
ReplyDeletesigh..now I am on the new blogger it seems I can never use my id again
The oscilloscope looks cool. Is this rom seems simmilar in functionality to the Morphine rom.
ReplyDeletetag: serge
ReplyDeleteThere are 64 waves in each PPG wavetable bank and a stock Blacet Miniwave can only do 16 waves per bank. Plus there are only 16 banks in a stock Miniwave. The board I made allows for 32 banks of 64 waves each. That's 8X more samples per ROM. Jason Proctor provided me the wavetables. I'm just the hardware monkey that made them fit in a Miniwave socket. Some pictures here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.retrosynth.com/gear/minirom/
Cool, Cary and Jason are still alive!
ReplyDeleteHow are you Cary?
Gentlemen,
ReplyDeleteI desire this too.
If anyone finds out how to get this into my hands, I am listening.
will I be able to add these to my Waveform City?
ReplyDeleteNice stuff. Who all makes the standard expansion ROMs other than Matthew Davidson?
ReplyDeleteI don't believe too many folks are playing with Miniwave ROMs, or if they are, they're not sharing. I have some interesting ideas for waveforms but was limited by the original ROM size of the Miniwave. About the same time as I was toying around with that Jason hit me up about the PPG ROMs. There are five prototypes MiniROM boards. There's nothing keeping me from making more but I want to fully flush out the design before selling a bunch. Six months down the road I don't want to say "hey, I have this great idea but it won't work with the MiniROM board I already sold you". Of course, the real truth is so few people have EPROM/FLASH programmers that most folks aren't going to be programming their own waves anyway.
ReplyDeleteI was afraid that would be the case, though I wish there were other people making the ROMs since I already have all of Matthews. Either way, I am very interested in how your board designs work out. Please keep us updated on it or post a thread to modularsynth.net when you have them fully debugged. Very ggod stuff!
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