hack that synth

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>There is the "I want to keep this dead stock so it will be collectable 
> someday" and the "I want a hot rod" and both are valid schools of thought.
> 
> I see the ProOne as a CHEAP synthesizer.<<<
> 
I'm definitely not one of the "keep it stock" crowd, but I do like the idea
of mods and customisations that don't reduce the value of the synth, should
I ever have to part with one.... 

one of our rogues is bristling with extra, unmarked toggle switches and when
I lent it out, I had to draw a map of what they all did. now I wish I'd done
it more elegantly, but there's so little space on the panel and underneath
it for the extra switchgear. the pitch wheel range control went in ok,
between the wheels, but all the other switches are at the right-hand end of
the keyboard and there's *just* room to make a small panel that could be
engraved.... this rogue has an extra trigger generator so that the lfo is
free to do high-frequency osc/filter modulation. 

pretty much anything that one would reasonably want to do by putting in
patch cords on a modular system can be achieved by adding switchgear and
little extra circuits in otherwise innocent looking "cheap" mono synths,
from enhancing their sound in a normal musical context (pwm and so on) to
creating new outlandish effects (raising the lfo frequency so it enters fm
territory) or changing the way the synth works entirely. 

someone described to me their use of the little sequencer in the yamaha cs30
as a function generator- basically, you clock the thing from one of the
vco's and feed the stepped voltage back through the vcf/vca so each pass of
the sequencer is one cycle of some weird waveform..... I haven't tried this
yet- the cs30 is weird enough already with the hacks I've done (it can make
breathing/snoring noises; I can't remember how....)

I suppose my point is- yes, I could build stuff from scratch, and I have
done, but I have more fun doing bad things to instruments so that they sound
different than when they were new.

d.



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