[sdiy] Modding the MKS-30 - Looking for suggestions

[dj hohum]

On 6/25/07, Florian Anwander <Florian.Anwander at consol.de> wrote:
> Hi dj
> 
> > Again, I'm intersted in distinctive or unusual. I don't need yet
> > another bread and butter two VCO (DCO) polysynth. I'm not committed to
> > the LM13700s yet so any suggestion that uses the three CVs and
> > completes the audio path in a usable way is welcome.
> I'd suggest CEM3372 (or similar) as VCF/VCA.

While I really like the CEM3372, they are expensive and this is an experiment. I'm all ears if anyone knows where I can buy 3372s for a reasonable price.

> As Samppa mentioned: the highpass CV is one source to get additional CV 
> control. The other is the DCO-balance. You might modify also the 
> waveform setting of the DCOs in a way, that the setting for the 10/90 
> pulse works as "DCO-off". Now you have freed the DCO balance CV. If you 
> get down to saw only DCOs, you would have another prgrammable switched 
> control.
> 
> I think, soundwise the most interesting modding for an analog 
> subtractive synth is to modulate the VCFs cutoff-frequency (in the case 
> of JX3P/MKS30 with DCO-2). I tried it already with one voice. It 
> requires to amplify the signal level of the DCO, but it sounds nice.

Those are good ideas. What do you think might be the most interesting configuration?