You know, I had never looked at what took place behind the panel before.
My first reaction is "Holy shit!"
There's a lot going on there!
The CGS Gated Comparator is on the short list, w/ a lot of other CGS
stuff, for this summer.
I can tell you that the CGS Comparator is one of my favorite modules.
It's like an 8-stage Shift Register, with a gate for each stage, and
the outputs summed together. You get great note sequences out of it,
and depending on the threshold setting, it will start a new sequence at
step 1 while the others are going, and all those outputs will chase
each other and sum, so you get fantastic "infinite melodies", really.
Then you can turn steps 5-8 off, for different sequences. And of
course, the gates are there to trigger whatever you like. It's also
fascinating to just watch as the LEDs play, because they're not random
but the pattern is decided by the interplay between the comparator
input and the clock. I always fed it a triangle LFO while clocking it
from a separate LFO so that it wouldn't, though if you used the same
one maybe the sequence would repeat.
Another trick was clocking it at audio rate and using the inverted
output as FM on my VCO, which made it sound like it was going through a
nasty bit-crusher when you cranked the FM attenuator. Basically, the
inverted staircase wave keeps tugging the VCO down into subaudio. A
bit-crusher doesn't quite do it justice, because it's analog.
Of course, my Comparator stopped working -- a mistake of mine, because
it worked if I wiggled it right : )
If I get it fixed, I'll do a recording.
Cheers,
Scott Deyo
The Bridechamber
contact@...http://www.bridechamber.comJealous Edison Record Kompany
http://www.jealousedison.com On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:01 PM, adaaxs wrote:
> Which bracket should I use to do the least drilling on my TLN 864 ?
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> Also I am having trouble geting the ADG419 chip. Can I use a DG403 ?
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> How does this diifer the CGS Comparator ? Is there a CGS panel in the
> works.
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