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KonoTech Digital Regulator Model KDR-1000
(Previously uploaded in 2020)
In my fiction, the Digital Regulator is a digital wall clock whose design borrows elements from the iconic Regulator pendulum wall clock. Manufactured by Konokama Technology (KonoTech), the main face consists of two very large seven-segment red LED displays inside a hexagonal rosewood frame, while the electronic chime system and the clock set controls are situated in the cavity below the main face. The electronic chime system is built around two chips, the Yamaha YM21280 operator chip and the YM21290 envelope generator, both of which were salvaged from a water-damaged Yamaha DX7 Mark I synthesizer from 1983, bought as a parts-only unit by Seiji Konokama in 1985. That being said, it is fairly easy to port other DX7 presets and custom patches over to the Digital Regulator. In low light conditions, a hidden photoelectric sensor on the top of the face both mutes the chime section, and controls the display brightness. One has the option of either using the in-built Westminster chime sequence, or programming a custom sequence using any MIDI enabled keyboard or synthesizer, via the MIDI input and output ports on the front of the unit. Later models included multiple display colors, changeable display modules, and the ability to load custom sequences via digital storage, which made customization easy for even the technologically inexperienced.
The cost of manufacturing the Digital Regulator was about 248,000 Gil (about US$1,995), which is the same as the original selling price of the first-generation DX7, and was prototyped just before the founding of SJK Corporation. The first Digital Regulator was created as a gift in April 1986 for the Fairborn Royal Family. To this day, the original Digital Regulator hangs proudly above the thrones of Tyrone Fairfield and Arlene Osborn, the king and queen of Tolmekiya. More than 100,000,000 Digital Regulators have been manufactured and sold across Vasti since 1987, with more being manufactured each day.
A chime example may be heard here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37708131/
Clock frame designed in Second Life.
Digital readouts designed in Atanua, an open-source digital logic simulator.
In my fiction, the Digital Regulator is a digital wall clock whose design borrows elements from the iconic Regulator pendulum wall clock. Manufactured by Konokama Technology (KonoTech), the main face consists of two very large seven-segment red LED displays inside a hexagonal rosewood frame, while the electronic chime system and the clock set controls are situated in the cavity below the main face. The electronic chime system is built around two chips, the Yamaha YM21280 operator chip and the YM21290 envelope generator, both of which were salvaged from a water-damaged Yamaha DX7 Mark I synthesizer from 1983, bought as a parts-only unit by Seiji Konokama in 1985. That being said, it is fairly easy to port other DX7 presets and custom patches over to the Digital Regulator. In low light conditions, a hidden photoelectric sensor on the top of the face both mutes the chime section, and controls the display brightness. One has the option of either using the in-built Westminster chime sequence, or programming a custom sequence using any MIDI enabled keyboard or synthesizer, via the MIDI input and output ports on the front of the unit. Later models included multiple display colors, changeable display modules, and the ability to load custom sequences via digital storage, which made customization easy for even the technologically inexperienced.
The cost of manufacturing the Digital Regulator was about 248,000 Gil (about US$1,995), which is the same as the original selling price of the first-generation DX7, and was prototyped just before the founding of SJK Corporation. The first Digital Regulator was created as a gift in April 1986 for the Fairborn Royal Family. To this day, the original Digital Regulator hangs proudly above the thrones of Tyrone Fairfield and Arlene Osborn, the king and queen of Tolmekiya. More than 100,000,000 Digital Regulators have been manufactured and sold across Vasti since 1987, with more being manufactured each day.
A chime example may be heard here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37708131/
Clock frame designed in Second Life.
Digital readouts designed in Atanua, an open-source digital logic simulator.
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File Size 1.33 MB
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