[sdiy] anybody used a Freeman string machine?

[Bob Weigel]

Thanks that's what I figured Thanks!

.  The 'touch vibrato' I think just refers to it triggering off the 
touch in some paraphonic way.  THere is an adjustment vr5 that adjust a 
delay. However I hear little difference in it. Without touch vibrato on 
though there's a simpler vibrato.  With it it sounds like 2 ranks are 
being modulated...this w/out the ensemble on which kills the third rank 
anyway I guess.  But I think the 'touch' part just refers to a delay 
generator starting when the key is touched..  Release all notes and it 
retriggers I believe.  But I haven't figured out the circuit on that one 
to be sure and their description in the manual takes looking at the 
circuit and I don't have time at the moment to figure it out.  I'm sick 
of seeing this thing for a while :-) But definitely it's..not like the 
crumar composer where you can wiggle your finger for another vibrato 
source :-)


-Bob

tj wrote:

>
>> Hopefully somebody can save me trying to figure out the diagram of 
>> the  bussing on this thing.  I've completely gone through 
>> it...rebuilt  keyboard, repaired cracks in boards and bad solder and 
>> blown transistors  and missing chips and bad capacitors and on and 
>> on.  12 hours or so  later... all working great except I'm wondering 
>> if it's normal when you  press 'low' out to be totally missing the 
>> upper octave.  -Bob
>
>
> That is exactly how mine worked. Low was 5 octave range, and the High 
> was  the same exact notes doubled an octave higher. So High it was 
> missing the  top 12 notes as it did not have those, if that makes 
> sense. The same  effect as holding two of the same note an octave apart.
> The original pedal was neat, as it had a switch under the top left 
> part of  the pedal surface. It would drop the whole keyboard down a 
> semi tone.
> Now the entire time I owned one, I never knew it had aftertouch 
> vibrato?  Does it?
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