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Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] Re: The state of the mod kit

From: Tim Bieniosek <tab27@...>
Date: 2007-12-13

Do you mean using the sequencer as a free-form LFO/ modulation generator?
That would be awesome!

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Michael Hawkins wrote:

> Well, the initial kit is not going to include anything more than some extra spaces on the PCB for additional chips. What those chips turn out to be is going to be up to us. I figured that we would probably put a few digitial potentiometer chips on there and then a AtoD converter and demultiplexer. That would give us control knobs.
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> I am also looking at using the sequencer as a possible control knob. I haven't started work on that yet but I think it's feasible. Even that would better than pushing those dang up/buttons.
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> Mike.
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> Phoebe <october71@...> wrote: > The Moog Slayer mod as it currently exists will continue to work
> > perfectly well with my kit. My kit goes nowhere near any of the analog
> > mods at all. The big future upgrade, which I have partially prepared
> > for with the initial upgrade kit, will include a couple of digital
> > potentiometers that will allow us to control the Moog Slayer mod from
> > software. That will allows us to plug the EG's and MG's directly into
> > the Moog Slayer pots (which will be repatched into the digital
> > potentiometers). Then, for all of you brutes who drilled holes in your
> > keyboard, we will just patch those potentiometers into a analog to
> > digital converter (or two) and assign them to controllers. The end
> > result will be that you end up with the moog slayer mod being fully
> > integrated into patches and controls as well as being able to use the
> > knobs to control the Moog Slayer mod or any other controller you feel
> > like twiddling with.
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> So you're saying we'll have more than one "data" knob to tweak parameters instead of poking
> the up and down value buttons??? If so...cooooool! =)
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> Phoebe
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