[sdiy] VC Glide Circuit

[Roman Sowa]

My wild guess is that you had put 100k resistor instead of 10k as R4 by 
mistake. Same goes for R5
Set the input CV to 5V and measure current in crucial points: thru R4 
and R5, collector of Q1, output of U1 and you'll find what's wrong.
But if you say already confirmed 2mA to Iabc, then maybe inputs of U1 
are accidently shorted by some resistor, or the OTA is broken.

Roman

W dniu 2021-05-29 o 10:34, ackolonges fds via Synth-diy pisze:
> Hi All,
> 
> I wanted some VC slew for keyboard-style playing from my modular, so I 
> searched for a circuit, and decided to try and build one called 
> 'Unopole', - circuit diagram at 
> https://thonk.co.uk/documents/stroh/Wiring/Unopole.jpg
> 
> The graph on the bottom right of the diagram shows a 0V to 10V signal 
> slewing in 10ms, and I simulated the circuit in Falstad Circuit 
> Simulator (text for circuit pasted at end), and it is slewing even 
> faster. However, when I build the real circuit the glide is much slower.
> 
> I've tried putting maximum current (2ma) to the OTA control pin, 
> bringing down the value of the charging cap C1 to 10nF, and the fastest 
> I'm able to get it to glide (at fastest pot setting and CV input 
> together) is about 32ms from 0V to 1V, which is about 300ms over 10V.
> 
> Below about 10nF for C1, the tuning of the 1V/Oct signal starts 
> faltering. I'm using a ceramic C0G cap for this. Should I be using a 
> different type of cap? If so, which would you recommend?
> 
> Alternatively, does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm having trouble 
> getting fast enough glides with this circuit? I've built it a few times 
> with the same results. Or, has anybody on here built a different VC 
> glide circuit that is more suitable?
> 
> Thanks so much for any advice any of you may have.
> 
> FALSTAD CIRCUIT
> ------------------------
> 
> $ 1 0.000005 11.086722712598126 17 5 50 5e-11
> 174 48 128 48 208 1 100000 0.48020000000000007 Resistance
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> R 48 128 48 96 0 0 40 12 0 0 0.5
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> r 96 176 176 176 0 15000
> r 96 240 176 240 0 10000
> w 176 176 176 240 0
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> w 320 192 336 192 0
> d 400 192 400 256 2 default
> w 336 192 400 192 0
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> w 336 256 400 256 0
> w 400 256 464 256 0
> t 432 224 464 224 1 -1 5.814783631368241 -0.5472385803642495 100 default
> w 464 256 464 240 0
> w 432 224 432 192 0
> w 432 192 400 192 0
> w 464 208 464 144 0
> r 464 144 464 80 0 10000
> 402 656 352 768 352 1 0\s0\s40\s-9\s0\s0\s0.5 0\s0\s40\s9\s0\s0\s0.5 
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> 0\s1\s-8.857504054228007\s0.159115513874303\s100\sdefault 
> 0\s1\s0\s0.10015101242435948\s100\sdefault 
> 0\s1\s0\s-4.704497213289612\s100\sdefault
> r 656 320 560 320 0 10000
> R 560 320 512 320 0 2 100 5 0 0 0.5
> w 464 80 752 80 0
> w 752 80 752 320 0
> w 768 352 800 352 0
> c 800 352 800 416 0 8.2e-8 0.18007155406906683 0.001
> g 800 416 800 432 0 0
> w 800 352 848 352 0
> r 672 496 752 496 0 10000
> w 656 384 656 496 0
> w 656 496 672 496 0
> a 912 336 992 336 8 15 -15 1000000 0.1800697533715331 
> 0.18007155406906683 100000
> w 752 496 864 496 0
> w 848 352 912 352 0
> w 864 496 864 320 0
> w 864 320 912 320 0
> w 864 320 864 272 0
> w 864 272 992 272 0
> w 992 272 992 336 0
> r 992 336 1072 336 0 330
> g 96 240 96 272 0 0
> o 28 64 0 4098 10 0.1 0 2 28 3
> o 45 64 0 4098 10 0.1 1 2 45 3
> 
> 
> 
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