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Subject: Re: VC AR EG mockup

From: Doug Pearson <ceres@...>
Date: 2000-02-02

At 11:50 AM 02/02/2000 -0800, improv@... (Dave Trenkel) wrote:
>>From: "David Bivins" <dbivins@...>
>>
>>Pardon my audacity, but what do you think of this? It's a dual VC AR EG.
>>
>Cool! Cool! Cool! How about adding a switch to toggle retriggerring? This
>would make each AR section like a variable waveshape tri-wave LFO, when
>the R hits zero it retriggers the A? The new PAIA modules have this
>feature, and while I haven't actually used them, it seems pretty useful.

Yes, very useful. But a common feature from all the other American Modular
Analog Manufacturers (the group consisting of S., P., W. & B. in addition
to MOTM) - I have a pair in my W. system and the upcoming VC ADSR from B.
will have it, too. What I would prefer might not be possible given the 1U
real estate, but I'd like to see an "end-of-cycle" trigger output that
could either:

A) plug into the same EG's input to use re-triggering for an LFO effect, or

B) plug into another EG (possibly chaining several together); then, with
all the CV outputs mixed together, this could create the multi-stage EG
that has been chatted about (I would greatly prefer this to the
microprocessor-based version previously discussed) - you just buy another
one of the AR EG's to get another stage. I like the multi-stage envelopes
on the Casio CZ-101 as much as I like self-retriggering EG's!

-Doug
ceres@...