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Subject: CS-50 as controller (was: Re: [motm] Yamaha CS-5/10/15 as MOTM controller)

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
Date: 2000-10-14

--- In motm@egroups.com, jhaible@t... wrote:

> VCAs will be on each output. Depending on the module this can be
> a full fledged VCA or something less involved. For scaling the
output
> of an unipolar envelope 5 transistors (+opamps) might be enough.
>

I'm still struggling with the concept. Is it a fixed architecture
voice? If so, how do you control VCO volumes into the filter, poly
mod amounts, resonance, etc - all those things in a P5 voice which
required a separate VCA?

Or is it something wilder, with physical patch cords representing
somehow identical patching in 4 sets of electronics? How in the heck
would you pull that off without an elaborate electronic switching
matrix?

I'm so curious because I designed many poly synths in the old days of
SSM chips, but still never built any because of the sheer amount of
hardware required.

Moe