Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

Well, I threw together my MOTM-300, and have a very simplistic (and
kludgy) hard-sync patch running right now.

This is the first time I've had the MOTM making anything by itself
(aside from a medicore chaos patch between a 320 and a 420 RES 10 as an
osc)... and now I understand the idea of a modular addiction.

MOTM 420 self-oscillating, run through the MOTM-120 to make the output a
square wave (and higher-level), using that output as a SYNC source for
the 300, and using the 320 as an FM source on the 300. Of course, at a
low 'rate' on the 320, you get those great hard-sync sweeps, but as you
increase the 320 to audio frequencies, the sound goes... well, you know.

BUT IT DOESN'T GO HIGH ENOUGH! Clearly I need an 'actual' (see:
full-range) oscillator to drive the FM on my 300, or at least some sort
of DC source (no midi->CV converter yet...) to bring the 320 up an
octave or two.

God, the sounds coming out of this are amazing. As the hard-sync
'sweeps' (using the LFO's sawtooth output) past certain frequencies,
there's a 'resonance' effect when the frequencies it hits are
mathematically related to the sync source (octave, 5th, whatever)

Man.

Ok, I'm done ranting now, but clearly i need more oscillators. Actual
modulars beat the snot out of VA, and I've been using virtual modulars
since Generator 1.0.

-Geoff