On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, korgpolyex800 wrote:
> AtomSmasher? you there?
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yo...
> Question for all you slayer mod people.
>
> Is it that you are able to control the resonance from a knob on the
> keyboard that makes the mod so good? Or is it that you get better sound
> effects out of the keyboard?
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yes ;)
> Reason I ask is that, while I am working on adding RAM and ROM, I am
> also considering putting in a bunch of digital potentiometers that will
> allow the CPU to control additional parameters and I was thinking that
> being able to control the moog slayer under envelope of MG control would
> be great. But perhaps it turns out that the knob control is what makes
> it really good. And maybe putting the control back into the keyboard
> might detract from the mod. Although I could probably make the slayer
> mods react to a newly defined and programmed MIDI controller or two.
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i shouldn't even answer here, because the last several years has shown me
to be a little bit of a hardware hacking geek, but not even the slightest
bit of a musician.
that said, i think EGs on the mod would certainly be nice, as long as
there's still "manual override". controlling those (and other) parameters
via MIDI would be nice (for those that have hardware to send MIDI
CCs/sysex) but i'm not sure how hard it would be to gracefully handle the
zipper effect, especially when working with 7bit control signals and
limited by RAM, ROM and CPU. the zipper effect tends to be less of an
issue with EGs than it is with CCs because the [typically] faster speed of
an EG will mask the zipper effect.
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