Today I was watching the LED on my MOTM-101 Noise/S&H module blink merrily
away. It crossed my mind that it would be handy if that clock signal could
be used to drive other things. Sure, you can use an LFO to drive the S&H and
other things, but if you could drive everything from the 101's clock, you'd
free up an LFO for more interesting tasks. So then I noticed that there's
even room for another jack in the lower row of the 101's panel, whereupon my
interest was sufficiently piqued to pull out the schematic.
It looks like tapping the output of the 555 timer would be easy enough. It
even looks like there is an unused section of a TL072 wired as a unity-gain
buffer which could be used to buffer the 555's output, although you'd have
to cut a PCB trace to free the grounded input, which is kind of scary.
Has anyone tried this? Any reason why it's not a good idea? I realize that
the 555-based clock probably isn't as stable as the MOTM oscillator core
found in the 320 LFO, but in many instances it is probably good enough.
--Adam
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