[sdiy] MIDI DCOs

[Czech Martin]

why not buy a cheap old DCO synth with individual outputs?
And hack that for getting gate signals?
A microwave would be good (it has only 4 outputs, though).

m.c.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of mark verbos
> Sent: Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2004 11:47
> To: synth diy
> Subject: [sdiy] MIDI DCOs
> 
> 
> Has anyone come up with a DIY, MIDI controlled, DCO bank? 
> Something like 
> 8 DCO's that will polyphonically follow MIDI and send out a 
> corresponding Gate with each note on.
> 
> I envision something like that with a Wiard Miniwave after it, that 
> could be used to build a DCO based (no tuning problems) poly 
> synth along 
> the lines of a Juno 106, but with whatever waveshaping, 
> Filters, VCA's 
> and envelope's you want.
> 
> Or something like the Buchla Octal Signal source which is a DCO bank 
> with, as far as I understand it, a wavetable lookup system. 
> In this case 
> 3 DCO's per voice with software controlled wavetables. But, maybe 
> something like this could be made with Miniwave technology 
> and have it 
> all under voltage control, but the notes follow MIDI.
> 
> Could you take something like a Paia MIDI to CV and tap off 
> the digital 
> words before the D to A and send that to something like Ken 
> Stone's DCO 
> and then trigger the resets of some ramp generators, controlling the 
> ramp speed with the CV out? This is only 4 voices though.
> 
> Or is hacking a Roland MKS-30 or similar the best bet.
> 
> There are lots of you digital guys out there, this just seems like it 
> should have been done by someone.  Is there no demand for 
> such things? 
> This seems like the bridge between the analog and digital 
> worlds to me. 
> Of course I know nothing about software code.
> 
> mark
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