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Re: DUSG retriggering + how fast attack is

2003-10-23 by John P

You can get the printed catalog by calling Rex.
We're working on an online catalog but as they say in the deep-sea
salvage business, "don't hold your breath".


Fernando wrote:
> 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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