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Re: DUSG retriggering + how fast attack is

2003-10-23 by Fernando

Thanks a lot for your help John.
A new tip for that incredible device.

...a quote about the speed (from you!) :

>To: "analog(ue) heaven" analogue@...,
>From: John Papiewski johnp299792@...,
>Subject: Re: [AH] DSG - taking the bait....
>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:37:12 -0600
>
>The catalog goes into several DSG functions pretty well:
>1. transient generator... send a trigger pulse to the DSG trig in,
>you get one linear rise and fall slope. The time range is from
>around 50 microsec to a minute or so ... with a cv bias you can
>go to several hours.
(...)

Great range!!!
I see that catalog is not online? It is posible to get one
somehow?

Thank you,

Fernando

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, John P
<johnp299792@a...> wrote:
> I'll have a crack at it.
>
> It is pretty much what you said.
> If instead of sending a pulse to the trig input you send a step
trigger
> to IN, then this will act like retriggering.. I don't think the
> similiarity is perfect though. But if you have say fast attack &
> moderate to long decay, re-triggering this way will work the way
you want.
>
> With longer attacks though there's some difference. If you
retrigger
> before the attack is done (with a medium to long decay) the
output won't
> restart at zero but will drop a little and retrace back to
maximum,
> because you're doing slew limiting with the DSG.
>
> Hope that's not too confusing. The short answer is, it works
ok.
>
> As far as the speed of attack & decay times, I think the spec
says if
> it's patched as a vco it'll go > 1 khz. So the sum of attack &
decay
> time must be 1 ms or less, which means minimum attack time
must be < 500
> microseconds. If that ain't fast enuff for ya, I don't know....

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