I Couldn't Play my Theremin, So I Built a Ring Controller!

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happymoogman
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I Couldn't Play my Theremin, So I Built a Ring Controller!

Post by happymoogman » Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:13 pm

All I could manage were "woo-woo" noises, and not real MUSIC on my theremin, so my goal was to build a ring controller, with depressions in wood, that could control a voltage-controlled oscillator on my modular synthesizer.

That did the trick! You can build one, too.

Read on:

http://www.danacountryman.com/martenot_ ... tenot.html

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Re: I Couldn't Play my Theremin, So I Built a Ring Controlle

Post by EricK » Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:35 pm

Looks great. How does it compare to the Analog Solutions controller?
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