<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 00:53, David G Dixon <<a href="mailto:dixon@mail.ubc.ca">dixon@mail.ubc.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div><span class="gmail-m_-5528080348844781116330023822-08102018"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Today
I made a PCB for a Polymoog resonator with voltage-controlled corner
frequencies. I put four resonators on the board. Three of them I am
going to stuff so that the manual range of frequencies are the same as the
original Polymoog (60 to 300 Hz, 300 to 1500 Hz, and 1500 to 7500 Hz).
However, the fourth I'm thinking about setting up so that it can scan over that
entire range, so that it can cross over and reinforce each of the three peaks
from the other resonators. Does anyone have an opinion on this idea?
If so, I'd love to hear it. Maybe it would be better to break the audio
range up into four ranges. I can't decide.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Generally speaking in a multi-band parametric eq or resonator like this I'd definitely want the ranges to overlap more or less - having 60-300 & 300-1500 & 1500-7500 without overlap sounds like a questionable idea from Moog's side - but on the other hand there can be some problems with huge amplitudes when peaks collide. In the original old design I guess the frequency ranges might have been limited to 2,5 octaves partly by the topology, but in your case with voltage controlled 2164s, is there any reason not to give the bands much wider ranges - perhaps even the full 10-octave audible range?</div><div><br></div><div>In the end, if I'd make something like this I'd probably choose four limited but overlapping ranges, perhaps 20-400 & 75-1500 & 250-5000 & 1000-20000, and choose components and levels in order to optimize the audio fidelity for each band.</div><div><br></div><div>Having four frequency sliders with "mutually blocking" slider tops like Korg's old "Traveler" filter solution would also be an interesting take if colliding peaks would be undesirable. :-)</div><div><a href="https://www.sequencer.de/pix/korg/traveller_korg_vcf.jpg">https://www.sequencer.de/pix/korg/traveller_korg_vcf.jpg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>/mr</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>