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I seem to remember some mention of this a few weeks ago, and a
listmember has emailed me privately to ask about it, so here's a little
bit of info. The module is not an oscillator in itself, but needs to be
driven by a square/pulse wave. there are 64 digital waveforms available,
divided up thusly: a switch selects one of two groups, each group
contains 4 banks, and each bank contains 8 waveforms. The waveforms
are genrally interesting, synthetic sounding, and work well with filters
- high resonance picks out interesting harmonics! The banks and waves
can be selected by pushbutton, or by a trigger input. it does ∗not∗ do
wave table sweeps like a ppg or wiard waveform city. The 19a divides
the driving pulse wave by the number of steps in the waveform. I didn't
check too carefully, I'm embarrased to admit, but I think its /16 IE 4
octaves down. It will track right down into the LFO range, so you can
get weird pattern lfo sweeps, or even sequencer effects with a little
fiddling. There are 2 things I haven't tried yet. One of them is
driving it from a MOTM VCO - the modcan vco's square and saw outs are
+ve going only, as opposed to MOTM's bipolar waves, but I don't forsee
any problems. The other thing is the "sync" socket. this works like
the sync socket on a regular VCO, but one sweeps the driving oscillator
to get the effect. I'm guessing that on receiving a "leading edge", the
module resets the wave to its start. I'll test both these things on
wednesday, and report.
Now, there was some mention of a larry h motm format panel for this,
IIRC, and also IIRC, I believe that someone mentiones that paul s wasn't
panning a wavetable module? Please correct if I'm wrong. Of course,I
had to ask modcan's bruce duncan if he'd be willing to supply an ultra-
basic stripped down vesion of the modcan wavetable oscillator, so
(larry) could possibly produce panels for it.

his reply....

"Maybe...If enough people were interested I could modify the design to
suit
I need to find a supply for the 2732 non cmos eeprom that the wavetable
uses as my current supply is getting low.
Tell the guy to contact me and perhaps we can arrange something."

So, I'm wondering what the interest would be, and if larry would be up
for it? Oh, the power requirements are compatible with MOTM, although
the connector on the wavetable pcb is a three-pin version of the MOTM
connector, with only one (centre) ground wire.

I should point out that I wouldn't be up for a stooge panel for my 19a
module, as I ∗really∗ like modcan's graphics, and I'm building MOTM and
Modcan systems up in parallel (score so far - motm 10, modcan 6), in
seperate cases...however.....I know a lot of you are motm-format only
types...

best etc.
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