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Subject: Re: Korg Trident VCF trimpots

From: "darke_one666" <darke_one666@yahoo.com>
Date: 2006-05-06

the pots are for res, res Freq and offset

--- In PolySix@yahoogroups.com, "jure zitnik" <kokoon@...> wrote:
>
> well on polysix there are 3 trimpots on the top of each voice
chain. i
> think the first is cutoff CV offset and the second is scale. i'm not
> 100%.
>
> i could be wrong though and maybe there's just one trimpot - just
for CV offset.
>
> jure
>
> On 4/20/06, Niels Ott <niels.ott@...> wrote:
> > jure zitnik wrote:
> > > i don't know about the trident but on polysix you have 2 pots
for
> > > filter tuning (you're actutally tuning cutoff, not resonance):
> >
> > Yes, true, as the SSM2044 will produce a sine wave at its cutoff
frequency.
> >
> > > one for VCF offset
> > > one for VCF scale
> >
> >
> > I can't match those names with any hearing expierence from my
tuning. ;-)
> >
> > There are three pots on the Trident Mk2, one seems to control
cuttoff
> > freq (is this what you call scale?) and the other one amount of
> > resounance. The third one I don't know...
> >
> > > however, expect that the tracking will be way worse than VCO's
> > > tracking. maybe 3 usable octaves.
> >
> > Hm the VCO tuning works great. I tuned it according to the
document from
> > the files section of this Yahoo group and it's reasonably stable.
> >
> > (I'm using a simple KORG guitar tuner for all of this.)
> >
> > But back on topic: It seems to me that there should be a
general "tuning
> > knob" for the VCF. The voices are alright now, they sound all the
same
> > and (in my ears) as they should.
> >
> > It's just that the high and low octaves of VCF resonance don't
really
> > match the tuning. (The VCO is alright.)
> >
> > Isn't there a similar tuning mechanism as for the VCO?
> >
> > I'm not so keen on guessing by twiddling with trimpots. I don't
like to
> > mess things up.
> >
> > NIels
> >
> >
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