24 hour Lunetta?

Dave Kendall · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject:

There is something about being immersed in listening to, or recording a "noise" or "ambient" track that takes you over completely. After the first experiments or layers are done, the gear is ready, and it's time to put it to tape, then something happens.....

IMO, it's a *very* different experience to a "beat-driven" hypnotic one.
I love all sorts of beat-driven stuff, but beats remind you you have a body, and so the body dances, or keeps time, or taps its foot.

A beatless soundscape is purely in the head.... It's a very different and beautiful vibe, and I'm a sucker for it....

(I really should buy a season ticket, for which, read - "solder less, listen to, and record more" .... Wink

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cheers,
Dave

Rykhaard · Joined: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 1290 Location: Canada

Dave Kendall · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject:

Rykhaard · Joined: Sep 02, 2007 Posts: 1290 Location: Canada

stolenfat · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:11 am Post subject:

heyo! I was wondering if i could get some help:

I noticed you included a 4516 up down counter in your lunetta- what does that do? Would you mind explaining it to me? How could it be used?

also, i havent figured out ripple counters yet- could you briefly describe how your 4024 works in your lunetta?

Thanks very much homies

andrewF · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:51 am Post subject:

ripple counter - each output is a squarewave runing at half the frequency of the previous output. important to note it is a squarewave, not a pulse, meaning it is 'on' for half of its cycle. If your clock frequency is very low, it means some of the outputs will be 'on' or 'off' for ages, not necessarily a bad thing.
I connected up the 4024's outputs to 4 XOR gates (a 4030)...kind of randomly, didn't think about it much.

The 4516, glad you asked about this as looking at it again i noticed an error i made.
The 4516 is a binary up/down counter, so the outputs go 0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100 to 1111....for 'up' and of course the other way if set to count down.
I tied pin5 to +V via 100k, this means it will normally count up, but it is also connected to a banana socket, so a clock signal can make it count down when a 0 is on the input.

pins 3,4,12,13 are inputs, i have these connected to switches wired to switch between +V and 0v. The idea is to set your switches and pulse pin1 high, this will load your inputs onto the output and disrupt the regular counting sequence. This was my error, i didn't connect pin 1 to a socket, just to 0V, meaning whatever i do to the switches will never have any effect....thanks for asking this Smile

I thought it was pretty subtle

The 4510 is pin for pin the same as the 4516, but it is BinaryCodedDecimal - only counts to 10.