The following is a Quicktime video of Milton in action. The patch being played is documented here.

I asked Ken Kreisel 's (the K in M&K) step son Gino to shoot some video of it running for you all to see. Being a film student, he was excited about doing this, but decided to make a music video out of it. While it's quite interesting and creative, it's hardly as informative as I wanted but I'm hoping you will still get the idea.

At the time which video was shot, Milton existed only on vectorboard and consisted of three parts: The main counting engine board (with the ICs all over it at the back of the table); One of the bank boards (which is hard to see, but is clamped into a vise which is mounted onto the surface everything is sitting on and looks almost like an antennae in this clip). You will faintly see it's 16 pots soldered to its edge when the camera swings from the synthesizer to the third board: Which is just a small panel with 16 LEDs that I've used for temporary stage indication.

Like the audio sample, the sequencer here has been tuned to a major scale. While the audio/video sync is not locked up in all instances in this footage, it does show the effect of four different types of voltage stimuli into the CV input.

These controls are:

1) The first is using the output of a pot. You will notice the active stage tracking the movement of that pot.

2) The second is the use of a triangle wave, offset above zero crossing. This is evidenced by the skipping pendulum operation.

4) The third control is sampled noise, and you will see (and hear) a random assignment of the stages. You her a lot of it in this sample.

The last is the output of an ADSR. Notice the sequencer running normally (sequentially) until the voltage from that EG rises above .18 volts - then it also takes control of the internal counting sequence.

Every once in a while, the sequencer goes back into linear operation, and you will distinctly hear it rattling off a major scale at that point.

Click here for the Quicktime movie

Yeah, but what about that weird noise in the background, you ask? (My) life much of the time consisting of a comedy of errors, it turned out the plumber I was expecting earlier that day came late and happened to be at the door with Gino when he arrived. Being a old Thespian myself, I decided to go on with the show, regardless of this interruption. So no, this is not the worlds most natural sounding delay you hear thrashing in the background - it's a plummer's snake being inserted in the tub of the adjecent bathroom.

Ah....., sorry about that.