Re: [microsound] Theremins with true sine output?

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

> a really unethical way would be to run a theremin through antares'
> "kantos" plugin - a monophonic pitchtracking synth/sample player -

Erp. Welllllllll, the whole intent is to avoid a laptop etc. :)

The reason I'm interested is, I've been playing a lot with dense tone
clusters produced by analog sine wave generators.

I have a nice flock of them now and when you get at least six -- better,
ten or more :D -- tones stacked, grouped with close tones beating against
one other... sometimes with the beat frequency itself being harmonized
against...

....and then sweep a single tone across the cluster, it's a really hypnotic
ear excercise!

I'd like to be able to do this performatively but have been looking for
something more expressive than a signal generator interface (e.g. a knob
for frequency and a knob for amplitude). The gestural interface of a
theremin seemed ideal.

Naively I assumed that the default output of a cheap kit theremin would be
a simple sine, it's still not clear to me why the heterodyned output at
root would not just be a simple waveform -- or why I can't seem to find a
theremin that will just give me that output without overtones.

I grok that most people of course want that etherwave "vocal" quality for
performance -- I would too -- but I'm surprised there isn't a way to just
get the single resultant frequency out first!

Hmmmmmmmm.... sigh, and I was hoping to avoid soldering, too! :)

 best,
 aaron

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