>From: Doug Pearson <ceres@...>
>And I'd love to see a pitch->voltage converter that works as well as the
>MS-20; I've become quite impressed with that unit's tracking for bass,
>guitar (including playing chords to get that "Baba O'Riley" arpegiated
>effect), violin, etc.
I've found that the motm 120 works as a pitch to voltage converter. I've
plugged my bass into the A input, set the MIX A switch to Square, turn the
A input all the way up and all the suboctaves all the way down, the output
is a square wave that follows the pitch of the bass. Plugging the 120
output to the sync input of another oscillator lets me get other waveshapes
from this patch. Tracking on this is about as good as the old
Electro-Harmonix Bass Synth (ie, not so great), but it can work. I'm
thinking about trying this with some massive compression on the bass before
it goes into the 120, to even out the attacks and decays.
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"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
-Sun Ra
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