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Diabolical Artificer 7th Nov 2017 12:43 pm

Scope music.
 
Came across this chap the other day doing amazing stuff with scopes, check out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqSvkNjWnnQ for one.

Andy.

fetteler 7th Nov 2017 12:55 pm

Re: Scope music.
 
Wonderful stuff. Thanks for posting!

Cheers,
Steve.

Diabolical Artificer 8th Nov 2017 7:52 am

Re: Scope music.
 
No worries Steve, it is pretty amazing stuff. He's done a record too, though to get really good images on your scope you need a decent audio interface.

He uses some software called Purr Date to get the correct sines, cosine's and what have you to "draw" the pictures. That as well as a modular synth.

The music is pretty nice to listen to also. So you get a work out for your scope and your sound system as well.

Andy.

fetteler 8th Nov 2017 11:35 am

Re: Scope music.
 
What's not to like;D

I immediately fancied having a go for myself but then, apart from not having a synthesizer, quickly realised how many other things I haven't got the time to do!!

Cheers,
Steve.

PSValves 8th Nov 2017 5:58 pm

Re: Scope music.
 
I found it was well worth paying a few euros and downloading the high resolution files which displayed nicely on my Tek 435.

John10b 13th Nov 2017 8:24 pm

Re: Scope music.
 
Hi
Just as a matter of interest has any one displayed a video on their scope?
Many years ago I fed into the z input output from video camera etc. I worked just!
Cheers
John

Dave Moll 13th Nov 2017 8:41 pm

Re: Scope music.
 
Certainly in the field of Narrow Band Television (see NBTV Forum) there are plenty of examples of displaying video on an oscilloscope, using the "Z" input to modulate the signal.

cmjones01 13th Nov 2017 9:44 pm

Re: Scope music.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by John10b (Post 991038)
Hi
Just as a matter of interest has any one displayed a video on their scope?

Yes, I did this on my Tektronix 535A (all 60+ valves of it). It has two timebases, so one served as the horizontal scan in the usual way while the sawtooth output from the other went to the Y input for vertical scan. I think the Y amplifier had to have its 'invert' switch engaged to get the picture the right way up. Video input went to a transistor inverter to feed the Z input, and also to the trigger inputs of the two timebases which were carefully adjusted to lock to the sync pulses.

It worked surprisingly well but was fairly dim, even with the 10kV or so EHT of the Tek. I guess scope tubes are optimised for fineness of spot and speed and precision of deflection rather than ultimate brightness.

Chris

John10b 13th Nov 2017 9:48 pm

Re: Scope music.
 
Thanks Dave.
Only used scope for servicing, but when the chargehand was not looking we used to try all sorts of things!
Happy days
Cheers
John

John10b 13th Nov 2017 10:36 pm

Re: Scope music.
 
Thank you also Chris
We had about 15 Tek scopes in workshop , many many years ago.
Cheers
John


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