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CMOS Cicada A/V
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CMOS CICADA
User Manual v.1
Complementary
Metal
Oxide
Semiconductor
Crystal
Insect
Cavity
Abdomen
Device
Amplifier
Chaos
Magician’s
Octagonal
Structure
Cannabis
Infused
Circuitry
Allowing
Decibel
Augmentation
Certain
Mechanisms
Operate
Slowly
Casual
Insect
Calling
Articulation
Derivative
Apparatus
CMOS
MMOS
OOOS
SSSS
Certainty
Isn’t
Certain
Anymore
Don’t
Ask
Colloquial
Mists
Originating
Somehow
Compact
Indiscriminate
Conical
Audio
Detonation
Analogy
Common
Month
Origin
Story
Clandestine
Incubation
Cell
And
Differential
Actuator
slownormals a/v
John H. Beck
12/17/2024
CMOS CICADA is powered via a 9 Volt center negative power supply, such as a Truetone - One Spot.
Output waveforms present at the ¼ inch audio output jack can be easily connected to guitar pedal effects, mixing boards and amplifiers.
The device’s power tuning knob is located nearest the 9 Volt power plug.
Setting the tuning knob in the most counterclockwise direction, the device is in an off state.
Gradually increasing the knob in the clockwise direction applies current to the circuit.
Full clockwise direction saturates the circuit. (cicadas emerge)
There is a sweet spot between the off state and saturation where the relationship of the 3 frequency modulation knobs will allow for spastic rhythmic behavior resulting at the output.
The resulting sounds can vary greatly.
Slow metronomic heartbeat-like pulses, polysystemic buzzing cycles, quantum alarm clock aberrations, transdimensional tabla accompaniment, haunted theremin-powered motorcycles, as well as sporadic squarewoven swing rhythms can all be achieved from this small yet powerful device.
Experiment and have fun!
Further Investigation:
https://cicadas.uconn.edu/behavior/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-19813-0
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Vibration-with-additional-static-load_fig3_360444997
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8697094
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