Korg Polyphonic Ensemble (was: Re: [sdiy] Secrets of Dan Brown's "The Buchla Code" Revealed

[Grant Richter]

I'll second the motion, those guys at Korg are brilliant.

For example, in the MS-2000, when you grab the delay time knob and  
crank the feedback to max, you can do a full blown psychedelic  
Echoplex freakout (like how an EH 16 works).

On the Roland or Novation units, the delay time knob just cuts out  
the signal and does some glitchy hiccup thing.

So someone at Korg knows that people actually PLAY the effects knobs,  
not just set and forget.

And as long as I'm rambling, you can double route the mod wheel  
signal through the mod matrix to the VCO and play it like a test  
oscillator, ala Dik Mik in Hawkwind.

A fellow actually paid me to figure out how to imitate Dik Mik and  
Del Dettmar on an MS-2000 for a Hawkwind cover band.
I told him he didn't have to pay me, but he insisted, then cooked us  
a steak dinner to boot. Hippies aren't all bad.

>
> That's a fucking brilliant circuit. Dynamic filter function and VCA  
> built
> from 2 transistors. (The 3rd transistor is just a summing amplifier
> for several VCAs.)
> And it foreshadows hwat would become a full-fledged resonant VCF
> and VCA with a few more transistors in the PS-3100.
>