SP CV-in experiments

[banyek]

have you ever tried plugging somethng '"strange" into the Filter/Vol/Pitch CV in of the SP (e.g. a headphones out of a TV, a pocket radio, etc.)? have you had any successes (whatever you might call a "success" in art...), and especially are there any do's and dont's with that? i might have read here in another thread about the possibilities and effects of that, though it was only a speculation about these things. thanks!

[Electrolight]

I was doing some crazy stuff with routing the output of the phatty itself to the CV in of the filter and pitch, pretty funny results! sometimes really phat sounding too
I don't know about any do's or don'ts, so I'm curious about that

[banyek]

Nice ideas, thanks!
I have plugged in my pocket-radio with a y-cable so it both affects pitch and filter-cv. you can get pretty interesting textures as the radio "talks through" the filter and pitch.

this one, for instance turned out to be pretty creepy

http://soutiengorge.hu/tmp/cv-experiment-two.mp3

[Lazerface]

THAT IS AWESOME.

could you just use a microphone with a y-cable and talk through the pitch and filter...like a vocoder?

[Amos]

THAT IS AWESOME.

could you just use a microphone with a y-cable and talk through the pitch and filter

Yes although you might need a mixer to amplify the microphone to good Control Voltage levels; microphones usually put out only a small signal on their own.

...like a vocoder?

No it won't be like a vocoder, which is a much more complex affair requiring many bandpass filters, envelope followers and VCAs. But it will probably sound cool.

[banyek]

But it will probably sound cool.

indeed you can get very nice and subtle textures!

[Lazerface]

THAT IS AWESOME.

could you just use a microphone with a y-cable and talk through the pitch and filter

Yes although you might need a mixer to amplify the microphone to good Control Voltage levels; microphones usually put out only a small signal on their own.

...like a vocoder?

No it won't be like a vocoder, which is a much more complex affair requiring many bandpass filters, envelope followers and VCAs. But it will probably sound cool.

weekend's mission is try this.
I didnt mean EXACTLY like a vocoder...just the talking through a synthesizer part

[banyek]

weekend's mission is try this. I didnt mean EXACTLY like a vocoder...just the talking through a synthesizer part

sure! well, our next stop here will be feeding a drum machine into it. it will surely be nice as it's gonna get into the groove

[banyek]

this time, i've plugged in an FM radio's broadcast. obviously, the speech bears more clarity, and it has a kind of "ring-modulated" sound:
http://soutiengorge.hu/tmp/cv-experiment-three.mp3