Magnetic Table CV controller

pulse_divider · Post by **pulse_divider** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:58 pm

I just noticed this on my friend's blog, it's a CV controller that he built. I need to go check it out sometime, it looks awesome!
http://artoftravelogue.blogspot.com/201 ... table.html
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Bricks · Post by **Bricks** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:30 pm

joystick + magnets.. very clever!

YouTube · Post by **Kent** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:50 pm

Ha! That was damn cool. Congratulate your friend on a job well done.

thebot · Post by **thebot** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:59 pm

That is amazing! I love the sound as it locks onto the notes, the wobble is just beautiful.

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:18 pm

Ha! At first I was like, "meh, clever but pretty useless"....then I saw how it actually worked and I was all

Bra.....vo!

Good stuff.

isak · Post by **isak** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:24 am

Super cool!

Tombola · Post by **Tombola** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:10 am

Love it

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:23 pm

That's great!

zapp550 · Post by **zapp550** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:38 pm

Got to see it in person last year at AHMW along with a snare drum played by his modcan sequencer

Protofrangiste · Post by **Protofrangiste** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:35 am

A really great contraption!

pugix · Post by **pugix** » Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:20 pm

Has anybody here built one of these? I'm going to. I want to use it for audience interaction with a patch in an installation I'm planning.

Zergon · Post by **Zergon** » Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:33 pm

Wow, awesome!

horstronic · Post by **horstronic** » Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:43 pm

That's one of the best, most out of the box thinking projects I've seen for months!

Sonnenberg · Post by **Sonnenberg** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 12:15 am

Thanks for all of your enthusiasm.

Check out my blog for more details on that and other instruments that I collect or have built...

www.artoftravelogue.com

spotta · Post by **spotta** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:40 am

What a brilliant idea, I want to make one myself now!

lintfresh · Post by **lintfresh** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 2:42 am

Very cool!

falafelbiels · Post by **falafelbiels** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:58 am

Very very cool

loziniak · Post by **loziniak** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:53 am

I think of improving this by using a sferical plate instead of the flat one - the distance from the rod to the plate would be independent of the rod's angle - you wouldn't have to use stacked magnets and rod's moves would be more predictable.

pugix · Post by **pugix** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:12 pm

loziniak wrote:I think of improving this by using a sferical plate instead of the flat one - the distance from the rod to the plate would be independent of the rod's angle - you wouldn't have to use stacked magnets and rod's moves would be more predictable.

I'm using a wok!

joshuagoran · Post by **joshuagoran** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:01 pm

ahh, the idea of a spherical/wok surface is a good one. All you'd have to do is try to match the radius of the pivot arm thing to the radius of the curve and it should be pretty consistent. I didn't see this before today, what an awesome idea!

pugix · Post by **pugix** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 8:04 pm

I has wok. I has magnets. I has joystick. More to follow.

pugix · Post by **pugix** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 2:05 pm

Has it really been that long already.

Got this project done just in time to take it out for an installation where dozens of people played with it. It was really cool watching them, because mostly they had little idea how it worked. They often seemed to think the Influencer (as I call it) was generating the sound itself. The magnets fascinated them. And some people fooled around with the magnets, to some deleterious effect. But it went off very well as an event.

http://pugix.com/synth/the-influencer/

Starspawn · Post by **Starspawn** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 3:00 pm

Brilliant stuff, will try to build later

boops · Post by **boops** » Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:14 am

REALLY Nice

MOD WIGGLER

MOD WIGGLER

Magnetic Table CV controller

Magnetic Table CV controller

Thanks!