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Subject: RE: [motm] UEG question
From: "Tony Karavidas" <tony@...>
Date: 2001-01-26
Yes!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bivins [mailto:dbivins@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:40 AM
> To: 'motm@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [motm] UEG question
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> Or instead of time being adjusted from the front panel in
> sequencer mode, is
> it just stepped by the trigger input, a la SH-101 sequencer?
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:03 PM
> > To: 'motm@yahoogroups.com'
> > Subject: RE: [motm] UEG question
> >
> >
> >
> > Does the other bank, in sequencer mode, control the duration
> > of the notes?
> > If so, swapping Pitch & Time leaves step-8 with no time
> > setting, no? Or are
> > the durations of the notes "fixed" at the same value?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Karavidas [mailto:tony@...]
> > Sent:Friday, 26 January, 2001 1:57 PM
> > To:motm@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject:RE: [motm] UEG question
> >
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I have my own opinion on this subject, but I wanted to get
> > your feedback
> > before I wrap things up.
> >
> > The UEG can operate as a step sequencer, and Robert Rich
> > noticed a problem
> > at NAMM that I'm in the process of fixing. As a related
> > matter, I'm thinking
> > about the implementation of the sequencer levels.
> >
> > It currently works like this: The seven levels control the
> > "level" of each
> > stage, but since there is no level 8 (level 8 is zero in all
> > other aspects
> > of this module), the UEG goes to zero during stage 8. This
> > may or may not be
> > a problem. Let's say the UEG is controlling the pitch of a
> > VCO. If the VCO
> > has it's bottom pitch tuned to zero volts (by using the VCO's
> > coarse and
> > fine controls) then at least one of the sequence values must
> > be that pitch.
> > (You could tune others to that as well, but at least stage 8
> > MUST be that
> > pitch.)
> >
> > The other way to implement this is to use the TIME pots for
> > pitch only when
> > in sequencer mode. It would allow all 8 to be adjusted
> > instead of seven,
> > which is slightly more flexible, but it is not intuitive at all.
> >
> > You can actually get 8 pitches either way, but in the first
> > way you have to
> > adjust the bottom on with the oscillator, and the second way
> > you can do it
> > from the UEG.
> >
> > What do you think???
> >
> >
> > Tony Karavidas
> > Encore Electronics
> >
> > http://www.encoreelectronics.com
> >
> > Designers of "The best MIDI to CV converter on the planet."
> > -Keyboard Oct.
> > 1997
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