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Subject: Re: [motm] modcan 19a wavetable "oscillator"

From: bigd@...
Date: 2001-02-27

lets try and wait for the Blacet Miniwave. Im sure John will have a nice
redesign for it.
Jim

James Holloway wrote:

> I may be interested if the price is right.
>
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> ---- norman fay <kay-rad@...> wrote:
> > 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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> >
> >
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