[sdiy] Model 2 Klee Sequencer (was "Leaving off a pot?")

[scottnoanh at peoplepc.com]

Good call, Fernando!  Never occurred to me, but I can see the gate bus
interfacing with the Diatonic Converter quite easily.  The busses probably
should be in merge mode, otherwise after the positive input of the clock
duty cycle went low, the pitch CV would change again.  Then again, that
might be rather interesting.  I'd love to try it out - can't recall if I
have a CGS41 PCB or not, guess I better check my staggering 'to do' pile and
check it out.  Else I'll probably have to wait til after the Christmas rush.

Having said that, I still am rather fond of the semipredictability of the
Klee sequence.  I have no aversion to formal scalings but also have no
aversion to more nonstandard things as well.

I've collected all of the samples, and then some, uploaded to the
Electro-Music thread here:

http://mypeoplepc.com/members/scottnoanh/birthofasynth/id24.html

All of them are 'single take' samples (no overdubbing) - just the Klee
controlling different things (VCO's, filters, EG's, CGS wave multiplier,
DSC2000, Thomas Henry UD-1 drum voice, etc) simultaneously.  They're in
chronological order.  The latest I uploaded last night has it controlling an
FM'ed Rene Schmitz VCO3 through the 291 filter, aVCO3 through Rene's 2040
clone filter, the UD-1 Drum Voice, and the DSC2000, all controlled by Ray
Wilson EG's and through Ray Wilson VCA's.  It's a Buchlablacehenrischmitzon
synthesizer, in case anybody is wondering....

Cheers,
Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fernando de Izuzquiza" <fdi at ran.es>
To: "Michael Bacich" <weareas1 at earthlink.net>
Cc: "synth diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 2:06 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Model 2 Klee Sequencer (was "Leaving off a pot?")


> http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgs41_diatonic_converter.html
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> El 19/11/2006, a las 0:12, Michael Bacich escribió:
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> > On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:34 PM, <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com>
> > <scottnoanh at peoplepc.com> wrote:
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> >> When more than one stage is active, the voltages programmed by the
> >> active
> >> stage pots add up to form the output.
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> > In my opinion, this function would be most interesting if you were
> > running the summed CV output through a scale quantizer that
> > constrained the output voltages to only notes that fell within a
> > particular musical scale or mode (for instance C Major, or D minor
> > Pentatonic).  This would ensure that the various unexpected
> > combinations of the summed multiple stages would always yield
> > "musical" results.  Yes, I know that everyone's definition of
> > "musical" is different, but I happen to like tonal music, and I
> > think this method of creating unexpected combinations of notes that
> > still sound tonal would be very fun.
> >
> > By way of contrast, if you were to tune two stages to a bunch of
> > notes that were tuned to a particular musical scale or mode, for
> > instance, the aforementioned C Major or D Minor Pentatonic, and
> > then summed the random-ish combinations of those notes, you would
> > end up with a few very nice note output combinations, and probably
> > just as many (if not more) few real clinkers -- that is, notes that
> > did not sound good in either scale.  (for instance, if there were
> > two stages being summed, both with all notes tuned to a C Major
> > scale, if the two stages happened to output the E natural note, and
> > those two E naturals were summed together, the resulting output
> > would be G#, not exactly the most harmonious note to use in a C
> > Major improvisation).
> >
> > Then again, Don Buchla hated keyboards -- at least the kind with
> > black and white keys.  I imagine that he wasn't too fond of the C
> > Major scale, either.
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