Magic Smoke's Thomas Henry Mankato Filter Samples

Scott Stites · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject:

You guys really are too kind.

Wow! 6000 copies! I'm listening now, but on dial-up it's sort of like '1 second of sound, 20 seconds of silence, 1 second of sound. But, it's good sound! I'll have to order the computer to work overnight on it.

I guess I haven't really looked into how to go about releasing something. I'll have to chew on that a while.

Mankato Filter - doesn't look like they've actually started selling the boards - there's still the note about not taking any pre-orders.

WZ, don't worry, if you build it, they will come.

Ooh - the blips have started to sound ominous...sweeet.

Cheers,
Scott

Wild Zebra · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:24 am Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

Scott Stites · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject:

I'd be ecstatic over 10!

I'll check Static Caravan out. Wanta give your stuff a listen, too. Got knocked off last night by the People's Republic of PC.

Cheers,
Scott

v-un-v · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 10:35 am Post subject:

Thomas, do you know what the position is on the Mankato filer and Magic Smoke?? They seem to be taking rather a long time Sad

Tim Servo · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: Mankato news and a wacky sample

Hi Guys and Gals,

Just a quick update on the status of various and sundry stuff from Magic Smoke.

The Electronic Drum Cookbook PDF is still available for $15. "Making Music with the 566" PDF is coming out next week and will be $10. We'll have a PCB for a VCO that includes all the options listed in the 566 book, but that won't be out for at least a month or two.

Mankato news? Well, I've finished the Mankato PCB design, and prototypes are being ordered as we speak! If these test out okay, commercial boards will be available very soon. The PCB includes all eight outputs, pads for MOTM or DotCom style power connectors, along with short circuit and reverse polarity protection on the power input, and it all fits in a 5" x 4" board. I've done some preliminary tests with my prototype, and it's an impressive little bugger. Thomas' circuit yields a frequency range of 0.004Hz (one cycle every four minutes) to 22.7KHz with no range or capacitor switches! PLEASE NOTE that this is my prototype, and with chip and component variations there will be some differences from board to board, but I would still say that 0.008Hz (one cycle every two minutes) to about 20KHz should be easily achievable. This is roughly a 2,000,000 to 1 range, and believe me, it is a TON of fun to use this thing as an LFO and sweep it through even a fraction of that range. In fact I've attached a goofy, glorpy sound clip I made using the TH-201 Mankato in LFO mode. I'm using two of the outputs (90 deg apart) to FM two ARP Odysseys. The Odys are running a patch where the internal VCF is set to high res, and the S/H is modulating the VCF. The Mankato starts out at audio frequency modulation (about 2KHz), then I sweep it down to a few Hz, and then back up. Like I say, goofy fun.

I'd like to thank both Scott for putting this topic together, and Thomas for such a great VCF design.

Later,

Tim (various and sundry and goofy) Servo

TH-201 as LFO-02.mp3

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Magic Smoke TH-201 "Mankato" used as an LFO. Two outputs from the TH-201 are patched to two ARP Odysseys, and the TH-201 is swept from about 2KHz to a few cycles a second, and then back. Let the sonic mayhem begin!!

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Tim Servo · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: Magic Smoke and stuff

Just one more thing I wanted to say - Thomas Henry has VERY graciously let Magic Smoke reprint his books and designs, and has been very patient while we get this all going. However, please note that Thomas doesn't own or work for Magic Smoke, so he isn't responsible for the delays in getting these books and products like the TH-201 to market. If you have any questions, complaints or problems with Magic Smoke Electronics, PLEASE feel free to contact John Mahoney or myself at Magsmoke@gmail.com

Thanks!!

Tim (IS responsible for the delays) Servo

Scott Stites · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

Tim - didn't download the sample, cause I already got it, but I love it!

Glorpiness beyond compare.

*love* that Mankato........multi-phase VCLFO (heck, VCO), voltage slewer, and my favorite filter, ever, all in one package.

Cheers,
Scott

Tim Servo · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Scott!

Also, don't forget to listen to the sample in stereo. Through headphones is especially fun, as a different Ody / mod phase of the TH-201 goes to each ear!

Tim (especially fun, or so I'm told) Servo

Scott Stites · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject:

Moving in stereo Very Happy

v-un-v

bdu · Joined: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Great news! Having spent a week or so with one in my system, the absence is noticed ;0)

Scott Stites · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

Here's a piece of cheese I recorded with the Mankato a couple of years ago. It's my modular, multi-tracked. I think it was the last thing I recorded using the Baby Sequencer before it was torn out by the roots to make room for something else.

Anyway, the only filter used on it is the Mankato. Keyboard is by Thomas Henry as well. Some of the tracks were recorded through the Dim C and a Korg Analog Delay I got from Jeff. VCAs, LFOs and EGs by Ray and VCO's by Rene. Sounds like a fashion line-up, doesn't it?

Cheers,
Scott

th_filt_delay_dimc.mp3

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Track featuring Mankato Filter

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v-un-v · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

Wonderful! Very Happy

It sounds like early Bill Nelson or Plone Very Happy

bitmonkey · Joined: Sep 20, 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Florida

Scott Stites · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

back John!

I really do need to get out more - I'd never heard of either Embarassed

Cheers,
Scott

Edit: But I will now! Thanks, Tom - read about Bill, sounds like interesting stuff. I still have to look up Plone.

bitmonkey · Joined: Sep 20, 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Florida

v-un-v · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: th_filt_delay_dimc_113.mp3

v-un-v · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject:

And some more interviews with Mike Johnston (ex-Plone) with realplayer interview Cool

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here

and the ZX Spectrum Orchestra- with viddy's Very Happy

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here

Scott Stites · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject:

Wow. So there's a definite Pram connection going on there as well.

Tell you what, I'll trade you your Birmingham for one Birmingham, Alabama, and throw in, oh, a Wichita, KS. What do you say? Very Happy

Cheers,
Scott

v-un-v · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 1:32 am Post subject:

Scott Stites · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 6:19 am Post subject:

See, I wasn't trying to short change you Very Happy

Birmingham, AL would give you a nice injection of blues, and we'd get a nice injection of non-blues. And the musicians we'd get in this case would still be living Very Happy

I believe Pat is from Missouri. Wichita is the birthplace or at least growing-up-place or they-lived-here-at-least-a-couple-of-months-place of luminaries such as Joe Walsh, Don Johnson, Kirstie Alley (her dad still runs a lumber yard here), and Dennis Hopper. Well, actually Dennis may have been from Dodge City(?)

Yes, word has it the TH-201 boards are on their way here from the middle kingdom....

Cheers,
Scott

v-un-v · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 6:59 am Post subject:

Missouri- that's right Smile

I've got 'Bright sized life' with Jaco Pastorious on Bass, the Wichita Falls LP and New Chataqua (sorry for my bad spelling? Embarassed

). The last one is beautiful. Any Squarepusher fans should check out Pat Metheny Very Happy