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WOGGLEBUG
"IS THE WOGGLEBUG MY SYNTHESIZER'S ID MONSTER?"
"SHOULD I BEWARE the WOGGLEBUG?"
YES, and Maybe.
The "WoggleBug" is a random voltage generator, originally designed
by
Grant Richter of Wiard
Synthesizers.
The
Wogglebug's
sole
purpose
is to
overtake the control voltages produceded by your keyboard during
performance, and to give voice to your synthesizer's ID. It is
your
synthesizer's ID MONSTER.
A
continuation
of
the
"smooth"
and
"stepped" fluctuating random voltage sources pioneered by
Don Buchla, the core of the circuit is based on the Buchla Model
265
"Source of Uncertainty" module, which many consider to be the most
musical of all random voltage generators. Like the 256, the
Wogglebug
utilizes a vactrol based low frequency smoothing filter, VCO and
Sample
& Hold to produce Stepped and Smooth (or lagged, slewed)
control
voltages in the range of 0 to 10 volts. Grant's Wogglebug design
expands on this system to include the other-worldly Woggle CVs
(stepped
voltages with decaying sinusoids at the edges), which must be
heard in
action to be truly appreciated.
In a moment of considerable noise, Richter decided to tap into the
sound sources at the uncertainly beating heart of the Wogglebug,
and
bring them forth to the instrument's panel. He then figured a
clever
way to "ring modulate" these sounds, and that output now graces
the
panel of all Wogglebugs.
Thus, the Wogglebug is a complete system, no external modules are
necessary... however, all voltage controlled systems long to be
tickled, bitten, plagued and eventually destroyed by the
Wogglebug.
Until now, the Wogglebug has only been available as the Wiard
Wogglebug
#5 for the 300 series or as the Wogglebug #3 DIY project,
popularized
by the folks at electro-music. The Make Noise Wogglebug is neither
#3
nor #5. In the truest spirit of Wiard Synthesizers, the Make Noise
Wogglebug is not a clone, but instead it is a tribute to all that
Woggles, a continuation of the Wogglebug.
Like the #3, the Make Noise Wogglebug is a single Wogglebug
system.
However, the Make Noise Wogglebug improves upon the #3 by offering
further functionality:
-External IN for the ringmod circuit
-the Ability to directly inject a signal to the heart of the
Wogglebug
via the Control IN
-the Random Gate Burst function
All of which have never appeared within any Wogglebug. Finally,
Make
Noise has redesigned the Cluster circuit, and thus it has been
renamed
as CHAOS BALANCE to reflect it's further purposes. This control
now
allows for new functionality that has again, never appeared within
any
Wogglebug to our knowledge.
The photographic
aluminum front panel and Printed Circuit
Board are fabricated in the USA.
Assembled and tested in the USA.
The
module
is
14hp
and
consumes 50mA current.
Get
the
MANUAL
LISTEN:
Richard
Devine battles his synthesizer's ID Monster!
a
lone
Wogglebug
emerges,
bent
on
Plan
B
M15, tickled and bitten
a
lone
wogglebug sings a storm
Plan
B M15 stepped and destroyed