MItlon Exposed: Photographs and features

 

The following is a feature index of the completed Milton Prototype. Please reference the legend below for the functionality of each point.

You may see a large image of Milton by clicking on the image below.
Diagram 1 -Milton Prototype faceplate - click on image for larger view

INPUT CONTROLS:
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1 External Pulse INPUT
2 Obedient Clock OUTPUT (External clock run through HALT/RUN RS flip-flop)
3 Obedient clock HALT/RUN MANUAL CONTROLS and status LEDs
4 Obedient clock HALT/RUN EXTERNAL CONTROL (trigger input)
5 Direction Voltage Control INPUT and range switch (standard or 1v/oct)
6 Programmable Pulse Bank ENABLE (switch up DISABLES pulse banks, an external trigger then ENABLES them on high signal)
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OUTPUT CONTROLS
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7 64 voltage pots (arranged as 4 banks of 16). Above that, STEP PULSE OUTPUTS and ACTIVE STAGE LED INDICATOR, one each per step
8 BANK A, B, C, D Voltage OUTPUTS
9 PROGRAMMABLE PULSE BUS A (top) and B (bottom) OUTPUTS and STATUS LEDS (between jacks)
10 16 PROGRAMMABLE PULSE BUS A / B SELECT switches (Up sends pulse out BUS A, bottom sends to BUS B, center sends pulse to neither A or B)
NOTE: The three unmarked jacks to the RIGHT of the input controls are (from top to bottom): RESET 1, RESET 2, HOLD
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What you are hearing:

This is Milton controlling two osc tuned slightly off unison. As always, the bank controlling the frequency of these oscillators has been tuned to a major scale. What is generating the apparent tonal patterns is caused by a square wave into the VC input which is scaled to pick stages five steps apart. Concurrently, a second VC serves to offset the square wave via random voltage, thus each presentation of the 5ths trill starts at a different center and reflects a different interval.