PLAN B analog blog

Plan B returns in '08!  

We'll be showing a few new things, not as many as in previous years,
but the line is more mature now and that's to be expected.  We'll
hoping to have the new case, and two modules which I haven't decided
if we're going to take them into production as of yet.  It depends on
the feedback I get at the show:

One is a super-quiet headphone pre which uses the infamous 5532 Opamp. 

The other is this thing called a Wave Splicer which lets to merge two
completely different waveshapes together. It senses the  zero-crossing of input A and let's you dial (or VC) when the transition to the second input occurs.  But it always resets to the first input at the beginning of each wave cycle.  You could have a saw going in one and a square from the same VCO in the other, and the splice setting would determine when in the single cycle it would switch between the two.  This combo would allow for a saw you could PWM.  Infinite combinations would make for some interesting timbres. 

Two VCOs at different pitches is another that sounds great, especially sub-octs. Again - once a wave begins, it will switch to a second input and then back to the first before the next cycle starts again. It will give the four output M15 six completely unique waveform combinations: sine/tri, sine/saw, sine/square, tri/saw, tri/square and saw/square.  

The upside of doing it as a module as opposed to just adding that functionality into the VCO to begin with is some of these sound more interesting than others and as an outboard it gives you the potential to morph from other sources, not just the parent VCO.

Both the Headphone Pre and the Wave Splicer are 4HP.

- P