Here’s a quick video of the completed Photo Trans-Actovator. As you can see this thing is highly sensitive to light. In the demo I’m using my hands to shadow the photo sensors and also turning on and off ambient light will have a drastic effect. enjoy.
Added a switch the will mute the main sax voice and also added the pitch bends. Nothing special here, but I love the low pitch growl this thing produces. Nice texture.
Found a slew of toys at the thrift store the weekend. Think I’ll mess around this this saxaphone looking thing first. Stay tuned.
After several setbacks and modification the trans-activator has been finished. I’m still realizing the potential of this device and I can’t wait to get some serious recording time with it.
Completed
In the process of clear coating the control panel for the transactivation today, that aresol spray can got too close to the space heater and the whole thing exploded. I managed to throw the cardboard box out into the snow but in the process the wet control panel took a hard spill on the garage floor and was scarred beyond repair. I lost a few hours of work and my eyelashes and eyebrows but it could have been much worse. Lesson learned…. need to go buy replacemet supplies. This project is on hold for a while.
