minimoog clone

[Hairy Harry]

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>From: tpaddock at seanet.com
>To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: RE: minimoog clone
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:18:59 US/Pacific
>
>Just some thoughts from the unwashed and lazy.
>
>Overall octave transpose switch.
>Also affects vcf if it's set to tracking.

Nice...
>
>A real ADSR would be cool, but not if you can't use the
>EG as a "fader". I use my mini more for a distortion &
>filter box than playing it like a keyboard.
>(Could be due to my extreme lack of keyboard talent.)
>I put stuff into the ext audio in and leave the mini
>gated with a switch on a jones plug. I often control
>the vca and vcf by the EG's with the level set by SUSTAIN
>and the lag time set by DECAY. Nice slow fades
>and filter sweeps. When I try this on an odyssey, it works
>when I move SUSTAIN down, but not back up. (I'll have to
>check for sure)

nice also...
>
>Keep the loooooong EG decay times.

Oh YES !!!
>
>Keep the 440 tone if it's easy.

Waste of panel space IMHO...
>
>A on-off-mom gate switch on the front panel.

Very nice!
>
>Add a positive GATE input.

Why do S-trig anyway. All we do is convert to positive trigger, and
its easier to go from positive to S-trig anyway !
>
>Gate and CV outputs.

I'd like a whole patch panel. Maybe as an accessory that fits a 1U
rack below the main panel...
>
>Hot vco levels so they can overdrive.

OK if you like... I'll turn mine down.
>
>Add a separate LFO, but not if it means losing
>the vcf control by vco3.

Yeah but where do you fit the extra knobs ???
>
>It's not keeping with the original, but how about
>"detune" indicators? Maybe an led driven from an
>and gate looking at vco1 and vco2. It would flash
>depending on how they were detuned. Same for vco1
>and vco3. Could a vco drive a few milliamps directly
>if you connected an led & resistor between vco outputs?

Actually an exclusive-or gate is what you want here, driven
from square waves...
>
>Ext CV input gets added to the midi CV. So you can
>transpose on the fly from another keyboard. Like when
>running a mini from a sequencer and playing the
>keyboard at the same time.

If MY synths don't do this trick when I get them, they get modified until 
they do !!!
>
>CV inputs for pitch and modulation wheels. Maybe like
>an odyssey, where you can use resistance or voltage.
>
>Wood strips like a Buick Roadmaster. (Sorry, attempted humor)

Not Funny !  I was thinking the same thing. A thin walnut veneer strip
in the rack rail area, with holes to clear the mounting screws. Mini's would 
not be the same without that "woody" sound.

Soon this will be a iiiC....
>
>Some of these are kind of getting away from the
>original idea, but they are just thoughts.
>
>  - -- -  Toby Paddock
>
>
>

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