A few days ago, I also managed to find one of these and have the seller reserve it for me for next month:
This is a 4 pole analog lowpass filter with VCA and panning... and all is fully MIDI capable with presets and all. Basically it's a synthesizer without any oscillators. It has Envelopes and modulation that can control both filter and VCA as well as panning. All you need to do is trigger it either via MIDI or Audio input. It's an older CEM Curtis filterchip like the one Waldorf used in their Microwave 1 series synthesizers.
Actualy I've got more than enough synth so why this? ... because I want to make an electronic project that feature some 8bit digital oscillators to use for it's audio input. it's an idear I've had for some time. Many synths have analog inputs that can route the audio through its filters and VCA, but personaly I very rarely use these inputs since I don't use anything with them, so I thought that why not make a kind of oscillator only synth to use with a variety of other synths out there?
By konnekting this device in series with the synth in question (through MIDI), and then connect it's output to the synths audio input, you can practically consider this device as part of the synthesizer, and use my device as "extra oscillators".
This is why I want this Miniworks machine, since it's perfect for the project.
The electronic project will just be using a simple microcontroller with a homebrew DAC converter. The good thing about this is, that it need only focus on doing oscillators... filters and VCA (and other things) will be the synthesizers it uses that take care of that part. This leaves a lot af MCU resourcers free for oscillator code instead... more complex ones etc.
I will call this device "Parasite", since that's basically what it does... leeches itself to the synth, using it's filters and VCA. The "Parasite" is then to be tailored to different synths along the way... also the sound of the Parasite's oscillators will be 8-bit, rough and "uncombed" full with anti aliasing, dirt and grit... and the oscillator algorithms; only the MCU sets the limits. But with 10 million instructions per second, something interresting should be possible.
Actually the Slim Phatty would be useable for this project as well, as it has an Audio Input and is MIDI controllable.
... but what did you have in mind? loops? singe note instrument samples?
... some known riffs should pop up from now and then throughout the improvisation.'It's mono... as the SlimPhatty is mono out only, and it's recorded dry without any kind of external processing... just the Slim...