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Subject: RE: [motm] Re: Clicking VCA

From: "Paul Wagorn" <pwagorn@...>
Date: 2005-04-08

It’s not the 800 envelope generator,it’s the VCA.  We’ve been through this many times.  (now ∗I∗ am gritting my teeth)

 

I have a ton of other vca’s that donot exhibit the same behaviour (Doepfer, moog, etc).  of course they will ‘click’at superfast attacks & low freq waveforms, but nothing like the MOTM vca.  

 

If you remember Paul, the problem wasnever solved.  $10,000 scope or not. 

The ∗same file∗ makes ∗noclicks∗ on my Event 20/20s.”   buloney. Play the file I sent you a yearago.

 

paul

 

 


From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 20055:19 PM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com; JimCarlile
Subject: Re: [motm] Re: ClickingVCA

 

(grits teeth):

a) there is NOTHING WRONG with the '190 VCA.

b) I've sold over 180 '190s, perhaps 4 people havesaid something.

c) I've looked at the outputs with my $10,000digital scope looking for obvious
'spikes' or DC shifts. Nope. I've run FFTs. I'veduplicated "clicking" by
hand-editing waveforms in SoundForge and playingthem back on crappy PC
speakers. The ∗same file∗ makes ∗no clicks∗ on myEvent 20/20s.

d) What you may want to try is increasing C9 onthe '800 to like 10uf non-polar.
This will increase the overall ADR times, and youmay find that on the lower end
of the scale (from 0 to 2) it's easier to find anAttack time that is more
'forgiving'.

e) you may find that Sines and Triangle will'click less' than pulses or saws.

Paul S.