Hey Tony,

The Blacet Improbability Drive seems very interesting to me too yes.
I have been eyeing that one from the sideline..
I haven't read enough about it yet to make a straight comparison.. Soon...
And isn't the Blacet a non-eurorack module (a no no for me)

That poll for a window comparator was actually a result of me looking how to
produce a Tendency Mask Generator and missing several functionalities in
existing modules. I dropped the idea for the window comparator here in the
list and Bakis was kind enough to make a poll out of it.
The window comparator has partly some similarities to the Tendency Maks
Generator. But the TMG is more than that!
It has its own clock source, the speed of the random voltage, which can go
really fast.. As I remember well straight into audio speeds.. providing
different coloured noise textures. (don't pin me on this one it's been more
than 5 years since I worked with it!--more news on that next week). I again
like to point out that what comes out of the TMG is a continous voltage. On
the unit in the studio @ Sonology four seperate units share one internal
clock but each section has its own pair of border inputs.

Be aware that the Tendency Mask Generator comes from a computer music frame
of mind.
The idea stems from the German composer Gottfried Michael Koenig (
http://www.koenigproject.nl/ ).
He masked random values to fit in between borderlines to obtain several
parameters for his compositions. This was all done in the seventies at the
forefront of computer music research.
Current head of Sonology, Kees Tazelaar ( http://www.keestazelaar.com ) was
keen on getting this to work in the institute's analog studio. Mainly for
use in his own compositions.

Greetings and thanks for the enthousiastic responses!

Ernst

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Tony Rolando < tony@... >wrote:

> This idea sound very similar to the Blacet Improbability Drive. The
> upper and lower limits controlled by the "Width" and the center (the
> level which the random voltage fluctuate around) controlled by "level."
> The module spits out, amongst other things, random voltages btween the
> upper and lower limits as set by the width control. Check out the manual
> for better detail:
>
> http://www.blacet.com/ID.html
>
> THis functionality could be easily achieved with the forthcoming window
> comparator (I think Doepfer announced such a module) and a single random
> voltage generator. Right
>
> Tony
>
>
> achtung_999 wrote:
> >
> > Dear list,
> >
> > After having tried to convince you people several times why this would
> > be a cool module.
> > (also see:
> > http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Doepfer_a100/surveys id=12854700
> > < http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Doepfer_a100/surveys id=12854700 >
> )
> >
> > I tried to imitate it with some existing A100 modules.
> > After a long and tiresome time of trying this I thought it was time to
> > get back to the
> > source..
> > I had a long phone conversation with the head of the institute of
> > Sonology in The Hague.
> > Mostly to refresh my memory on the exact workings of this intricate
> > module.
> > After some talking he came up with an excellent idea..
> > "why not release a small run of Tendency Maks generators in Doepfer
> > format "
> >
> > Next week I will have a meeting with him and the head technician of
> > the institute to see
> > how
> > realistic this plan is...
> >
> > To be continued..
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Ernst
> >
> > PS: The working of the module is actually so that it outputs a
> > CONTINIOUS CV between the
> > borders! The finished unit will probably contain FOUR seperate
> > Tendency Mask Generators
> > which share the same clock.
> >
> >
>
>
>


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