In a very cobbled fashion (clip leads) I tried the two sections together. Over a period of a couple hours of knob twiddling they yielded a variety of sounds reminiscent of a vintage pinball machine, or at the least old school video games. The vast majority of the knob settings however yielded what even I would consider mostly unusable noise. BUT the purpose of this experiment was more proof of concept than finished circuit or components. A neon based timing and voltage source can be used as a CV source for a VCO downstream.
In operation with the crude vco circuit I had built, the A opamp seems to also function as a gate... or somehow, discrete gating is occurring with the bits in context. All my prior attempts at gating a neon based relaxation oscillator have resulted in pitch ramping up and down with hang after the gate closed. I was getting distinct note on/off with no pitch drift. So thats a first, and lots of other stuff learned as well. It doesnt work as intended, but the lesson continues and there are tweaks to try. Change up the vco circuit. Big fun. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAPsrQ%2BFdzfk0simTjUegfNo8AewcZumoiA-VJHAjoPPUW%2Bm%2B1g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
