[sdiy] trying to understand appregiators in late 70's synths

[Dan Snazelle]

it's not that i am set on NON midi or on MIDI

or even that i am set on mimicking anything

i just want to figure out how the heck to do it!! 

i dont really see the need for it to be midi based though.

i am more interested in an appregiator that puts out gate and cv natively and then i could use some other machine to convert that INTO midi i guess.



if there is no way to do it without software than i might give up for a little  while at least. i had hoped it could be done
with cmos. but this might push me to learn how to use some kind of software device. i have thought about learning what the hell 
all these pics and microcontrollers can do for awhile BUT i just dont need one MORE interest that takes all my time right now. :)

thanks guys







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> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:09:40 -0800
> From: dougt55 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] trying to understand appregiators in late 70's synths
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl; subjectivity at hotmail.com
>
> The ultimate arpeggiator is the Europa Jupiter-6. Check out all the features here -
> http://www.synthcom.com/Europa/support/EuropaUserGuideV1.0.pdf
>
> I think the earliest synth with an arpeggiator was the Jupiter-4 in 1979. Anyone know of one earlier?
>
> Doug
>
> --- On Sat, 1/3/09, Dan Snazelle  wrote:
>
>> From: Dan Snazelle 
>> Subject: [sdiy] trying to understand appregiators in late 70's synths
>> To: "sdiy" 
>> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 1:59 PM
>> for a long long time i have wanted to be able to understand
>> appregiators.
>> only recently have i started worrying that without
>> understanding some programming, i will never have an
>> appregiator.
>>
>> so it was with great interest that i began looking at some
>> old shematics for ideas last week...jupiters,
>> junos.etc///till i realized that i understood almost none of
>> what was going on
>> as it was working with a CPU
>>
>>
>> so...to make a long story short. WHAT is a realtively
>> simple schematic to look at to TRY to understand synths with
>> appregiators?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> i suppose the problem is made worse due to the face that
>> without seeing what is PROGRAMMED on the CPU....well maybe
>> this is a useless exercise.
>>
>> i do really dream of having an appregiators for my synths
>> though.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>>
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