606 fun

[Stewart Pye]

HI..

My solution was to build a velocity sensitive midi to analog trigger unit.
It's on the PAiA synth drum now, but one will be going on the DR110, 606,
and various other rhythmn boxes. On the 606 I think you could just connect
the variable trigger to whatever instrument trigger in and leave the accent
disconnected. You could also do this with a paia MCV.

Stewart.


At 06:47 PM 14/07/99 -0400, Rob wrote:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Schrock <aschrock at cs.brandeis.edu>
>To: SynthFolk <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
>Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 4:24 PM
>Subject: 606 fun
>
>
>>I am procuring a TR-606 with a blown uP. I intend to bypass the digital
>>functions, install midi (MAP midigator), various mods, and rackmount it.
>>The midigator will be very cool to use, since each sound will also have a
>>gate associated with it, so I can run the sounds through additional
>>VCFs/VCAs to get a final product. Additionally, I assume the accent is
>>just a matter of bringing that particular pin from the uP high or low, so
>>I could link a gate to that for midi-controlled accent. I intend to do
>>some crazy breakbeats with accent and gated VCA's.
>>
>>>From what I can gather from pictures, I can leave out the switch board but
>>I have to mount the whole main board since there's no way to mount just
>>the analog components.
>>
>>So now I ask, has anybody done something like this? Any sage advice to
>>keep me from wasting my time? I took a look at the schematic, what's up
>>with the "common trigger" in addition to each voice having its own
>>trigger? (or is it gate? It's not labeled.. guess I won't know until I
>>get it in the mail)
>
>I have done EXTENSIVE mods on the 606, and that so called common trigger is
>actually the accent line, going to all instruments. You will want to
>disconnect that line and input your accent there, OR you can put indy
>accents..
>
>
>Rob
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