PLAN B analog blog

Regarding these original comments made by Carlos, Chris and Norman:

The issue that Chris eluded to is valid. The cost of the additional
converters had to be justified by their utility. While three of the
constituent component are Voltage Controlled Oscillators, they like
their companion VCAs are just sub components of a larger design and
while it's conceivable that any additional outputs and inputs could be
construed into a useful patch, they do not substantiate nor
augment the M30's basic function, that being an easily programmed,
complex sound generator. These additional converters would merely
serve to increase the panel cost and time to complete an extraneous
benefit.

If a car could make coffee it would be a benfit, but it wouldn't make
it better transportation?

You also have to look into the other side of the coin. Given the
M30's unique benefit stated above, if you were using them instead as
three independent VCOs, all doing their own thing, each coming out of
their own output, it would create a management issue if you were to
switch on the fly to another patch which required some of the VCOs to
instead be used as modulators because they would still be routed to
the outside world as independent voices.

With three outputs, this is a problem. With one output these types of
management issues are addressed...it's not a problem.


- P