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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!

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

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

THAT IS AWESOME.

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

Lazerface wrote: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.

Lazerface wrote:...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.

Amos wrote: But it will probably sound cool.

indeed you can get very nice and subtle textures!

Amos wrote:

Lazerface wrote: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.

Lazerface wrote:...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

Lazerface wrote: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

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