behavior when CV out of range
Haible Juergen
Juergen.Haible at nbgm.siemens.de
Wed Oct 20 13:25:09 CEST 1999
>If just outside normal range: No action. Just change the way you
look
>at it. Maybe something interesting comes out.
>
>m.c.
The OB-8 has a nice "feature" regarding its Arpeggio Clock input.
The transistor has no reverse voltage protection, i.e. for negative
voltages of some amount, the BE diode conducts like a zener diode.
*And* it will trigger the Arpeggiator !
If you feed a sine or triangle LFO into the Arpeggio Clock input,
you can get two triggers per cycle. As the positive and negative
thresholds are quite different, the triggers will not be equally spaced
in time. By setting the amplitude of the triangle signal you can align
the two different triggers to a rhythmical pattern.
Disclaimer:
I don't guarantee that there will be no degradation of transistor
parameters if you abuse it that way (;->). But as it's just used in
switch operation, I guess it will stand this treatment for a long time.
JH.
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