On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:32 -0500, john mahoney wrote:
> Late night, I-should-already-be-asleep thoughts on reducing crosstalk:
>
> Assumptions: For any given drum, there will be 1 or 2 other drums which
> cause the majority of cross-talk. If this is completely wrong, never mind!
> But...
This is basically true, and a useful assumption.
> If my assumption is reasonably correct, then each drum processor need 3
> inputs: One normal input and 2 out-of-phase inputs with pots or trimpots.
> Each drum processor also needs at least 3 outputs, in order to feed a normal
> input and some anti-crosstalk inputs.
>
> The anti-crosstalk stuff could all be behind the front panel, I guess, but
> I'd rather see it up front. Large front panel, I know.
>
> So, would that work?
Yeah, I think it would work. It would probably be sufficient to have
crosstalk connections for each of your two neighbors on the bar you're
bolting the drums to.
I feel it would be very important to keep the front panel 1U though,
since even a small kit must have several of these in order to be useful
(as opposed to, for example, a preamp module that you plug your guitar
into, of which you'd only need one). If you wanted to build a modular
that had enough to reproduce some drum synth, you're looking at a
minimum of four, usually five or six "voices." Each voice would need
one of these piezo->trigger/gate/cv things, an EG, and a filter...
that's already two panels for five voices, and we haven't even
considered noise sources, ring modulators, or stuff for more usual synth
voices. Besides, the only application of the crosstalk negating
connectors/trims would be for eliminating crosstalk. It seems like
you'd have to get way too creative to come up with a more general use
for them, such that you'd want to easily connect them to other modules.
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(jfm3)