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Thanks so much Rene and Guy for the extremely useful and detailed help! <br>
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In the end it turned out Guy was right about the transistor pin-out being the problem. I had mixed up the 2N3906 and the MMBT3906 SMT version pinouts. After switching it around, the glide is very fast now. Actually it's too fast, so I'll try some kind of log
scaling on the CV input and see if I can get the range I'm after.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Guy McCusker <guy.mccusker@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 31, 2021 9:01 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] VC Glide Circuit</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Seems odd that this simple circuit isn't working as intended. I'm not sure how adept you are at troubleshooting so for what it's worth here is how I would start approaching this. Apologies if this is telling you things you already know.
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<div>The basic setup should be that CV generates a current (via the input resistors), which is fed into the OTA control pin, and that same amount of current comes out of the OTA output, into the capacitor which integrates it, giving the slew ramp. When slewing
in the other direction the OTA sinks the current rather than sourcing it. The OTA is driven hard by the input voltages so for most of the time the current into or out of the output pin is equal to the control current. </div>
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<div>I'd look at the circuit in two parts: the part that turns CV into current that goes to the OTA, and the OTA output/integrator. </div>
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<div>First check that the expected current is being fed to the OTA control pin. You can do this by measuring the voltage across the input resistors R4 and R5, and calculating the current flowing there (add the two currents), and then the voltage across R3,
and calculate the current there. If the two figures you get are not the same or very close, something is wrong in that section. Transistor pinout would be one thing to look at. </div>
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<div>If the control current checks out, then you need to look at the post-OTA section. That's not so easy to do without reworking the circuit a bit -- maybe someone else has a suggestion for how to verify the OTA's output current and take a look around the
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<div>Maybe this gets you started, or maybe it's tedious stuff you have already thought about! </div>
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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?</div>
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Thanks so much for any advice any of you may have.</div>
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