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Subject: Re: Pitch bend intensity?

From: The Old Crow <oldcrow@...
Date: 1999-10-20

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 hodad1@... wrote:

> Ok, this is slightly off topic, but...
> As I mentioned once before, I took the mod/bend wheel assy. from a junk
> Polysix

Junk Polysix? Can I have the circuit boards? ^^ Or the case? ^^ Futz,
the whole machine? I collect Polysixen for parts and resurrection.

> & made it an out board controller for my MOTM--I feed voltage into it
> from the 800 EG & send it out to wherever. My question: The Polysix
> has a Bend Intensity pot on the panel that controls how strong a
> pitchbend you get. What I'm trying to figure out is if I can make
> this same principle work on my little mod controller. Would the pot
> need to be wired on the ins or the out? Is there a need for
> additional circuitry? I'm sure this would be fairly simple to figure
> out if I understood electronics better, but I don't, so I'm throwing
> it to the panel of experts in the hope that they can guide me out of
> the darkness.

My Polysix service manual is at the house, but after work today I can
snapshot the mod wheels portion of the schematic and place it on a web
server if you like.

I have plans to make a minimoog-style synth using MOTMs on a single 20U
to 24U wide upper frame that sits on a 'shelf' built onto the original
Polysix case. The more Polysix parts and cases, the better.

--Scott Rider

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