AW: MS 20 Vca
Jeroen Bruintjes
brun at bart.nl
Tue Oct 6 15:54:05 CEST 1998
Sorry for interrupting, but is this VCA also present in the Polysix?
> The original design is considered quite noisy. Many Korg synths
> suffer fron this sub-standard VCA, from MS-20 to Mono/Poly to
> Trident. I once replaced the crap (sorry) VCA in a Mono/Poly
> with a SSM2020, and suddenly this beast would rival a Moog
> in terms of fatness.
> Ok, I take back "crap". In a MS-20, the filters are already so noisy
> that it probably doesn't make a difference, and the two-transistor
> VCA has interesting nonlinearities. I love the MS-20 for its strangeness.
> But in conjunction with a SSM2044 filter (as in other Korg synths),
> this cheap VCA is a strange choice.
-> Brun, met een dakje op de u.
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