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Random voltages are great but not all the time

2009-05-03 by mrfossy86

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to know if people here know of (or use and could recommend) any voltage quantisation modules in Eurorack format... I've read about them somewhere a while back, and I'm not sure quite how they work... Do they round audible signals up or down to the nearest semitone, or do they process control voltages, or...?

Am I even talking about something that exists, here!? I'm usually quite good at using my ears to match and harmonise pitches, but a module like this might come in handy...

Tim

Re: [PLAN_B_analog_blog] Random voltages are great but not all the time

2009-05-07 by Don Kim

They quantize control voltages.
I have a Doepfer a-156QNT I'm happy with since it does some scales
too, but the Blacet Miniwave can also quantize voltages in a few
different scales in a few of it's programs. If you're lucky, maybe
Peter still has a euro conversion kit for your euro system.
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On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:25 PM, mrfossy86 <timstyler2000@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I just wanted to know if people here know of (or use and could recommend)
> any voltage quantisation modules in Eurorack format... I've read about them
> somewhere a while back, and I'm not sure quite how they work... Do they
> round audible signals up or down to the nearest semitone, or do they process
> control voltages, or...?
>
> Am I even talking about something that exists, here!? I'm usually quite good
> at using my ears to match and harmonise pitches, but a module like this
> might come in handy...
>
> Tim
>
>

Re: [PLAN_B_analog_blog] Random voltages are great but not all the time

2009-05-07 by Sean Williams

Hi Tim

In order of preference:
Doepfer A-156 Dual Quantizer, highly recommended for chromatic, major, harmonic minor and 6 and 7th chord modes and arpeggios.
Analogue Systems RS-130 Programmable Scale Generator, major, melodic minor, arpeggios and user programmable scale.
Analogue Systems RS-260 Quantizer, chromatic only.

Haven't used any others but I'm sure there are many more out there.

btw these are all voltage quantizers - audio pitch quantizing would be unimaginably complicated - try the Antares Autotune hardware unit!

sean

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Hello everyone!

I just wanted to know if people here know of (or use and could recommend) any voltage quantisation modules in Eurorack format... I've read about them somewhere a while back, and I'm not sure quite how they work... Do they round audible signals up or down to the nearest semitone, or do they process control voltages, or...?

Am I even talking about something that exists, here!? I'm usually quite good at using my ears to match and harmonise pitches, but a module like this might come in handy...

Tim

Re: [PLAN_B_analog_blog] Random voltages are great but not all the time

2009-05-07 by james.husted@mac.com

Voltage quantizers work on CV only. Typically the differences between the different manufactures models are in weather or not the unit can output in different scales and which scales they can do. I have the Doepfer Dual Quantizer A-156. It has one half set to do standard 12 semitone scale and the other half can be set to major scale (i.e. only voltages corresponding to the major scale), minor scale, major chord, minor chord, fundamental+fifth and addition of seventh or sixth when chords are selected. Only $175 at Analoguehaven.com - http://www.analoguehaven.com/doepfer/a156/

-James

On May 2, 2009, at 8:25 PM, mrfossy86 wrote:



Hello everyone!

I just wanted to know if people here know of (or use and could recommend) any voltage quantisation modules in Eurorack format... I've read about them somewhere a while back, and I'm not sure quite how they work... Do they round audible signals up or down to the nearest semitone, or do they process control voltages, or...?

Am I even talking about something that exists, here!? I'm usually quite good at using my ears to match and harmonise pitches, but a module like this might come in handy...

Tim


Re: Random voltages are great but not all the time

2009-05-07 by mirror_saw7778

Doepfer A156 Dual Quantizer will do this. There is also a Analogue Systems programmable quantizer. 
Quantizers only work on CV - not audio. They take a incoming CV and output the nearest pitch CV (this can be chromatic or a scale) - when they do this can depend on their own sampling frequency or an external trigger.

If you want to tune audio to a scale in your modular you could get a rack mount autotune and patch it in with something like the Doepfer A138d or Harvestman Stilton. I personally would not since it will change your tone, but might be useful to some.


--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "mrfossy86" <timstyler2000@...> wrote:
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> Hello everyone!
> 
> I just wanted to know if people here know of (or use and could recommend) any voltage quantisation modules in Eurorack format... I've read about them somewhere a while back, and I'm not sure quite how they work... Do they round audible signals up or down to the nearest semitone, or do they process control voltages, or...?
> 
> Am I even talking about something that exists, here!? I'm usually quite good at using my ears to match and harmonise pitches, but a module like this might come in handy...
> 
> Tim
>

Re: [PLAN_B_analog_blog] Random voltages are great but not all the time

2009-05-11 by achtung_999

this one: http://www.doepfer.de/a156.htm
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On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:25 AM, mrfossy86 <timstyler2000@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I just wanted to know if people here know of (or use and could recommend)
> any voltage quantisation modules in Eurorack format... I've read about them
> somewhere a while back, and I'm not sure quite how they work... Do they
> round audible signals up or down to the nearest semitone, or do they process
> control voltages, or...?
>
> Am I even talking about something that exists, here!? I'm usually quite good
> at using my ears to match and harmonise pitches, but a module like this
> might come in handy...
>
> Tim
>
>

Re: Random voltages are great but not all the time

2009-05-21 by mrfossy86

Thanks everyone for your gelpful replies! I'll probably go with the Doepfer module - it seems to suit my needs perfectly :)


--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "mirror_saw7778" <haven1@...> wrote:
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>
> 
> Doepfer A156 Dual Quantizer will do this. There is also a Analogue Systems programmable quantizer. 
> Quantizers only work on CV - not audio. They take a incoming CV and output the nearest pitch CV (this can be chromatic or a scale) - when they do this can depend on their own sampling frequency or an external trigger.
> 
> If you want to tune audio to a scale in your modular you could get a rack mount autotune and patch it in with something like the Doepfer A138d or Harvestman Stilton. I personally would not since it will change your tone, but might be useful to some.
> 
> 
> --- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "mrfossy86" <timstyler2000@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone!
> > 
> > I just wanted to know if people here know of (or use and could recommend) any voltage quantisation modules in Eurorack format... I've read about them somewhere a while back, and I'm not sure quite how they work... Do they round audible signals up or down to the nearest semitone, or do they process control voltages, or...?
> > 
> > Am I even talking about something that exists, here!? I'm usually quite good at using my ears to match and harmonise pitches, but a module like this might come in handy...
> > 
> > Tim
> >
>

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