RE: [AH] Gamechanger Audio MOTOR Synth

From Lorne Hammond
Sent Mon, Jul 29th 2019, 02:31

I think people are visually mesmerized. Its great design.=20
It has "cool" and "look what I got on stage", but I=20
have yet to hear a stop me in my tracks demo.
Or to go what is that new sound? I must know.

Lorne

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Dohman <xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx>=20
Sent: July-28-19 7:10 PM
To: Mark Griffiths via analogue <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: [AH] Gamechanger Audio MOTOR Synth

The sound is reminiscent of some of the minimal noise & drones =
I=E2=80=99ve heard from Shanghai & Beijing ; ) In my opinion the game =
changer is an effort to eschew existing methods of synthesis & perhaps =
update synthesis in a way that is currently not accepted.
Regards
Patrick

> On Jul 28, 2019, at 8:42 PM, Ben Bradley <xxx.xx.xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> =
wrote:
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> Each of the wheels on this thing is pretty equivalent to a VCO that=20
> can make at least a sawtooth wave (and you can easily generate a=20
> square/PWM wave from that). Each motor's speed goes up and down to=20
> make the wheel make different pitches. It's basically a VCO for an=20
> analog synth.
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> Hammond uses a bunch of tonewheels that are all fixed speed and each=20
> outputs a sine wave only. Different sounds are made by mixing together =

> up to 10 or so harmonically-related sine waves for a note. The=20
> relative levels of these waves make for the timbre. It's kinda-sorta=20
> similar, but has a lot of differences. The motor thing is for=20
> subtractive synthesis (generate a bright waveform and then filter out=20
> some stuff) whereas a Hammond is additive synthesis (add up a bunch of =

> sine waves to make the tone you want).
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> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 9:20 PM mark c <xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> =
wrote:
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>> Sorry to sound negative but what about Hammond tone wheels?
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>> Hammond's efforts don't look too different and they seem to sound a =
lot better.
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>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:24 PM M V <xx_xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
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>>> This is a very cool looking and original synth. Looking forward to =
when they hit the market.
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>>> Also worth noting that this is not the first attempt at this kind of =
thing: Jon Sonnenberg (aka Travelogue) built something very similar a =
few years back (including variable waveshapes cut out of metal discs) as =
a one-off. Jon's was monophonic, however, and didn't have any filtering. =
Some folks might remember it from at least one AHMW meeting.
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>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Patrick Dohman <xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2019 7:03 PM
>>> To: Mark Griffiths via analogue <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>>> Subject: [AH] Gamechanger Audio MOTOR Synth
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>>> A belated =E2=80=98postcard=E2=80=99 from superbooth.
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>>> My current understanding is that the MOTOR synth is an electro =
mechanical synth.
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>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBbqgSNqWQys
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>>> I also understand that the Motor is being crowd funded on indiegogo
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>>> Regards
>>> Patrick