Null Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kenwood-CS-5270-100-MHz-Readout-Oscilloscope-T-54-/131134801450?pt=BI_Oscilloscopes&hash=item1e883e462a I got mine for $250 from a local seller on craigslist so I just had to drive a few blocks to pick it up. NOW I'LL BE ABLE TO CREATE THE BROWN NOISE!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Seriously though, I want to get back into homebrew electronics and whomp me up some effects and synth modules And it is SOOOOOO COOL to be able to see the waveforms and envelopes dancing across the screen while you edit and play Gary 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Where the keys is? How you play this? What all them knobs do? Do it have a sequencer? And most importantly............is the manual like the XW? Keyboard techs use these to trace IC pin outputs, frequencies flying around motherboards and such (you probably knew that already). And to detect the aura around weirdnesses (I've heard on the ghost channel). Maybe that's why techs never repaired any of my broken keyboards, they were having too much fun watching the funny pictures. A very useful tool indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Null Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 No no no no man! You got it all wrong!!! That's a 1990's iPad!!! You hook it up to an arbitrary function generator and a custom MIDI to VC controller and Voila!@!! MOOSIC!!! Next off I gotta dust off my old electronics textbooks and build or buy a bench power supply and a function generator and pick up a cheap frequency counter and then I'm off to the races. Ize gonna buld meself a Frankenkeyboard~!!! But I'll prolly start small, with a few teeny frankenpedals Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Null Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 Oh, and btw, the manual it comes with is 55 pages of pure heaven. Just straightforward listings of the basic functions and what each setting does. No schematic though. So if it fries it dies But it does have a 1 Amp 250 Volt fuse and I plan to be EXTREMELY careful whever I hook it up Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Null Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 What the hell. Bandwidth's cheap. Here's the manual.... Gary CS-5270-manual.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomo Alegre Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Quake on an oscilloscope: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Null Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 Oooooh, that reminds me of the old vector graphics displays from the late 70's and early 80's. Who here remembers this one? Gary 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomo Alegre Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I love the old video games. I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. I was 6 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Null Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Luxury! I had a Timex Sinclair TS-1000 in my mid 20's... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 Fortunately I replaced it with a Commodore C-64 a year later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 I learned to program it in Basic, Pascal, Forth, LOGO (That was a hoot) and 6502 ASM. I even designed a piece of hardware for it and programmed a self relocating machine language driver for it. It was a Quad Joystick Adapter that connected to the User Port The first time I'd ever heard the song Oxygene IV by Jean Michel Jarre was on a demo program with dancing lights that moved in time to the SID chip music. That was around 1983 to 1986. Then I picked up an Atari 1040ST for a few years and had it hooked up to a Yamaha DX-27S keyboard thru the built in MIDI ports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST By 1990 I'd sold off the Atari and the Yamaha and bought my first IBM clone, a 386DX with a whopping 2 MEGS of RAM and a 60 MEG SCSI HDD and a $300 2X CDROM!!!!!! At that point I went thru a whole string of PCs and didn't pick up another musical keyboard until around 1997. A Radio Shack Concertmate 1500!!! The rest has been a long steady uphill battle of beige box upgrades and steadily falling hardware prices. Lord knows I dropped over 2 grand on that first 386DX. But if I had it all to do over again I really don't think I'd change a thing Gary 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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