Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!rgh From: rgh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: What is a Lyricon? - (nf) Message-ID: <937@inmet.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 05:56:50 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.937 Posted: Fri Feb 24 05:56:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 00:32:16 EST Lines: 26 #R:cbosgd:-95800:inmet:6600088:000:1182 inmet!rgh Feb 23 20:09:00 1984 Re breath-controlled synthesizers: The Yamaha BC-1 Breath Controller can be used as a control input to Yamaha's DX-7, DX-9, and CS-01 synthesizers. It generates a single control signal based on how hard you blow into it. It's probably more useful with the CS-01, since the DX-7 has so many other control inputs (touch velocity, touch pressure, foot pedal, modulation wheel). The CS-01 is a portable battery-operated monophonic analog synthesizer; there are two pots on it which determine how much of the BC signal is routed to the VCF and VCA. Since the CS-01 only has a single ADSR envelope generator (which can also control the VCA and VCF to varying degrees), the BC is a significant addition to the instrument. (The BC-1 is about $30 and the CS-01 is about $150-200.) It's not such a great controller, though. Unless you have a free hand (or one of those dinguses folk guitarists use to double on harmonica), you have to clamp the thing between your teeth. It makes an annoying amount of acoustic noise -- there's a little hole of the top to vent your breath out which acts a bit like a whistle. Randy Hudson {harpo,decvax!cca!ima}!inmet!rgh