drum architecture

[Paul Perry]

At 04:08 PM 1/11/98 -0700, Drew Hutchison  wrote:

>What benefits and drawbacks are there of the syntom-style AD/VCO/VCA
>architecture versus a ringing filter?  The latter is easier to build, and
>the former easier to control with knobs, but are there any other
>differences ie sound?  Thanks.
>
well I manufacture a ringing filter & a problem is, you have no control 
over the length of the ringing.
And, you cant get around this by varying the impulse to the filter, at least
nothing
as easily as having a vca on the output.
So, i would say: ringing filter, with triggered vca on the end.
And, by varying the trigger switch level, you might get a very useful
parameter with almost no extra cost.

paul perry melb aust