SergeModular

The distinction should be made between damaging the circuitry, and all other possibilities. No patch made within the serge system will damage the circuitry. Nor will patching present danger to the user. However, things might get out of hand with outputs patched to each other, which can cause some of the circuitry to temporarily stop working the way it is intended to. This might be a welcome new behaviour, or it might just be nothing. But I would encourage students to explore the many possibilities without resorting to these type of connections (but do not inhibit them with fear of a "wrong" connection, the occasional accidental output to output patch is part of learning). They will get more in terms of education and will not run out of things to try. Have fun!


--- On Tue, 1/6/09, billobrecht <billobrecht@...> wrote:

From: billobrecht <billobrecht@...>
Subject: Re: [SergeModular] Re: TKB - how do you use it?
To: SergeModular@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 11:47 AM

It would be very good to know specifically
which outputs should not be stacked into
a single input (and hence connected together).

Th school where I work will soon be receiving an animal panel.
I had hoped that the animal panel would be safe in the hands of
of the twenty year old animals who will be using it - barring
their attachment of 120v/15amp AC, etc.

Anything to watch out for in particular ?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
>From: zaum <zaum@optonline. net>
>Sent: Jan 6, 2009 6:31 AM
>To: SergeModular@ yahoogroups. com
>Subject: [SergeModular] Re: TKB - how do you use it?
>
>> >What is the danger in having more than one output
>> >connected to a single input ? My understanding had been
>> >that the results might be "unexpected" , or non-linear,
>> >(and, in general, a mixer should be used) but that no damage would
>> result.
>>
>> Yes, I would agree with this. Sorry if my previous statement was
>> misleading.
>
>Well the general theory behind that being no good is you don't simply
>have 2 outputs going into one input (without using a proper mixer)
>the same connection also results in each output sending a hot signal
>back into the other output. At that point it depends on the circuits
>and how the behave with an external signal going into an out.
>Generally many modules aren't affected but some can be especially
>with a strong signal.
>
>On the other hand certainly in the Buchla world, which of course had
>a degree of influence on Serge, I understand it's fairly a common
>practice with trigger pulses from multiple sources being "stacked" on
>an input and the modules are okay with it.
>
>nick