my man Arne S. had bought a noysestick on eBay, but the range was totally limited.
we used the oscillator basis and put it in a nicer joystick, which had a lot more buttons as well
aka more options for mods and bends.
since it stayed in norway, this is all from memory..
i think it houses 2 oscillators on a 4093 IC.
(not entirely sure, because i'd expect 4 oscillators then, but ok.)
each osc pitch is on a joystick axis.
your triggerfinger activates one oscillator,
the other has a momentary on/off button as well as an on/off switch.
master volume control slider on the side.
don't really recall what the two pots on the front do, to be honest.
some buttons switch in different caps for different pitch ranges,
some buttons make the two modulate eachother.
some buttons don't do anything at all.
the keyboard is basically an extra resistor ladder that gets spliced into the pitch control of oscillator 1.
keyboard also holds a bend with an led on one of the slider switches, but i have no idea what it hooked to what.
it did sound nasty though.
i'm sure i drew up a schematic while working on it, but (of course) i don't have that here either.
anyway - it's noisy, irritating and obnoxious. just how we like it.
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