[sdiy] Radical New Module from Cyndustries!

[Cynthia Webster]

http://www.cyndustries.com/

on 10/11/03 6:34 PM, Ian Fritz at ijfritz at earthlink.net wrote:
>>> 
>>> The use of LFO frequencies that  increase with increasing drive frequency
>>> is certainly novel and interesting.  But am I reading this right, there is
>>> no way to turn this feature off?
>> 
>> Well,
>> 
>> If you present a negative voltage to the CV input, the animation will freeze
>> at a fixed timbre which is an interesting feature.
>> 
>> Simon says... FREEZE!
> 
> OK, but this freezes all the animation, right?  I was wondering if it was
> in any way possible to get the 4-LFO animation without the frequency
> tracking.  Might be a good mod for an adventurous DIYer!

Hi Ian!

Yes, by turning the FAT knob down the tracking of the LFOs is no longer
controlled by the internal frequency to voltage converter and you are able
to use the FAT control voltage to control the LFO group speeds externally
with the CV input.

The Animator can be used simply as a sort of "multi Voltage-Controlled LFO"
this way for other purposes too.

I really like your idea of the numerous sync points and can see how that
would be lots of fun!

Reading over the the text on the website, I thought it may have been
interpreted as little arrogant to say ours is superior to ALL other designs.
So we changed the text. Obviously there are zillion other valid
approaches to this circuit, we're just particularly proud of ours!  :)

We could have "cheaped-out" by making the module only a
single channel of animation, but in this economy we were striving to
keep it a single-width module while giving customers the greatest
bang for their buck possible.
 
> Yes it is.  It's still interesting to debate different ways to do the
> trade-offs.

>> Thanks for your comments Ian!
> 
> Thanks for the discussion!

Of course!

Cynthia

http://www.cyndustries.com/