[sdiy] Advice

[mark verbos]

that raises a really good idea.... a 303 clone, but with a little 
something added.

That could shock the marketplace! ;)

mark


ps. just kidding


Glen wrote:

>At 11:55 AM 2/3/04 , john mahoney wrote:
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>>On topic: Anybody have a favorite DIY compressor circuit? Or, are we all
>>using commercial units? (Cough, cough...)
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>I might even build a compressor for myself, if there is a published circuit
>that comes highly recommended. Maybe I should check out the app notes from
>THAT? I understand they make high-quality gain control IC's. Maybe I'm
>skeptical of compressors largely because I've never had a good one. If I
>found a suitable circuit, I just might build one, but I wouldn't want to
>waste my time with some noisy piece of junk, so that's where some Synth-DIY
>recommendations would come in handy.
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>One final comment on compression:   I once heard some people praising their
>303 synths. Then one of them mentions that he always heavily compresses the
>output of his 303. Most of the others agreed with this, and said they
>usually did the same thing. 
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>I made the bold suggestion that if they ALWAYS had to heavily compress, or
>otherwise significantly alter, ANY particular synth, then it was a sign
>that particular synth had failed to produce the sound they actually wanted.
>I mean how good could their 303 (or any other synth) really have been, if
>they ALWAYS had to significantly modify its sound, before they could
>tolerate listening to it?    :)
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>For those people who *always* compress a certain synth, then perhaps they
>would be much happier if the envelope generation circuitry, or the VCA
>circuitry of the synth itself had been designed differently. That should
>eliminate or at least greatly reduce the need to compress the output. 
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>Perhaps in the future we should design synths with this idea in mind? I
>mean, make the envelope generation circuitry flexible enough that the synth
>could always be adjusted to provide a suitable envelope, without the need
>for external dynamics modification. What would have to be changed in a
>typical analog synth, to make this possible?
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>It's just something to think about.
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>later,
>Glen Berry
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