vc wave select

tomg vco at mindspring.com
Mon Mar 29 23:10:04 CEST 1999


> I think everybody has his own preferences and style of
> circuit design, and I love to see various approaches to
> achieve certain functions. I like the idea of having the pure
> waveforms first and the combined ones later, though personally
> I would prefer a set of push buttons with LEDs for selection
> of individual waveforms or combinations of waveforms (press
> several buttons at the same time for multiple waveforms).
> For manual selection, that is. For voltage control, I would not
> use switching at all, but crossfading.

> JH.

Thank you. The idea is to have one pot and 4 leds for wave
select and then have some panel room left for stuff like
mixing and crossfading waveforms. Hey! You could use
2 to select 2 sets of waves and crossfade between them.
Only 3 pots and 8 leds, all voltage controlled. Humm.

In the past I've always used switches. Just running audio
and cv all over the place. This time I want to leave all the
audio and mixing to analog switches and VCAs only 
running cv to pots. I'm trying not to use any mechanical
switches at all...except for power of course. This would
cut wire-flying in half and I hope make a better synth.
Anyway we'll soon know soon enough. I am working hard
on the M5.

-tg




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