One of the first things I found out about the MOTM-300 after getting it
running last night was "how low can you go". In typical fashion, as soon as
I got it running, I tried to blow it up!
I cranked a sawtooth wave all the way down with the coarse freq controls, no
external CV in, and got the 1 cycle per few seconds as advertised.
Then I took the pulse output of the same oscillator, set the pulse width to
minimum, and ran it back into FM2 with the attenuator wide open.
I don't know exactly how low it got, but during a single cycle I literally
had time to stuff 2 more VCO front panels with jacks, leisurely digging them
out of bags and dropping them on the floor, etc.
Say 1 cycle per 10 minutes. I know we don't want to use up our VCOs as LFOs,
but it's really nice to know that the VCO handled a large negative CV at the
bottom end of its range by doing what I hoped for rather than blowing
chunks.
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@... > -----Original Message-----
> From: Tentochi [mailto:tentochi@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 7:46 AM
> To: motm@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Vote for VCLFO design!
>
>
> From: "Tentochi" <tentochi@...>
>
> Any easy way to get the LO low below 1 cycle/min??? 1 cycle/ 5 minutes
> would be nice for some of the stuff I do. If it is too difficult, no
> problem. Perhaps a third range???
>
> --Todd
>
> > From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
> >
> > The range on LO is about 1 cycle/min to 900Hz. HI is about
> 1cycle/3sec to
> > 4Khz.
>
>
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