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Subject: Re: [yamahacs80] Calibrating the CS-80 VCF EGs

From: David Rogoff <david@...>
Date: 2011-05-09

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> Fernando Zarone <mailto:fernandozarone@...>
> May 9, 2011 2:57 AM
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> Hi all,
> after the long trip through overhauling my CS 80, I got to the point
> of VCF/ VCA calibrations.
> David, I appreciated your idea of connecting wires to the trigger
> points so much! Now, I am using a square wave from my aux outs of the
> 921 oscillator (Moog modular 55) and it works fine.
> I am facing the same problem as you did, David: no problem for the
> short Attack time, but setting the 3V at AF the slope of the scope
> visualization becomes almost horizontal, so the end point is very
> tricky to be detented and matching the time measurement to specs is
> not easy.
> How did you solve the problem? I think that, once having one M-board
> calibrated, it should be an (annoying) game, superimposing the other
> boards' waveforms to it. But what for the first board ??? Yamaha
> suggested to use "one good M-board for comparison", but I found the
> short calibrations (8V at AF) longer than required (about 25 ms):
> probably they used to be calibrated by ear, so I guess no one board is
> reliable as to factory specs.
> I think that the topic is paramount.
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Here's what I did.
1) removed top panel so I could get to back of M-cards without removing
them from (raised) card cage
2) unsoldered all TRG wires to M cards and soldered in little wire loops
I could easily attach clip leads to
3) connected all TRG inputs to Sub Osc square wave (tapped off op-amp,
before resistor attenuator
4) calibrated first (M-11) card with 'scope. Took many passes back and
forth between 4ms and 125ms settings. 125ms very hard to see with
analog 'scope. I used falling edge of Sub Osc as trigger (negative
voltage = note on)
5) calibrated other M cards by displaying them at same time as M-11 on
screen and getting waveforms to match.
5b) for channel II boards, used 2nd voltmeter to measure difference in
attack voltage between Channel I and Channel II and made sure it was 0
volts by tweaking panel slider.


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