Hi all,
Last saterday at 10:15 dutch time a postman with a big package was
standing at my door. The wait was over.
First of all. Kuddos for Rex for the packaging. It was superbly done.
When I had unfolded it, I was stunned by it's beauty. Of course I
drooled over the pics dozens and dozens of times, but to see it in the
flesh. So beautiful. Like the bananas which come in the colours grey,
dark green, yellow and dark read. I followed Rex advice and had ordered
40 (He said you need this amount to get access to all the potential) in
one go. Colourful, but not shouting colours. Just perfect.
Now came the tricky bit. How to connect things? I already knew from
experience that Amerikans do things differently when it comes to
electric accessoires, but wasn't prepared for what apparatus and more I
found in the box. How to connect that was the question. The ground kit
was soon clear, but what about the rest. I had to made several
connections before the Serge and the PS where connected. Then it was a
piece of cake plugging one jack in the X-fader and the other in my
mixer. Switch on at the PS and the Serge came to live, that is one blue
light slowly blinked. No sound of course yet.
First I tried some of the basic stuff. I listened to the different
waveforms of the osc's, tried freq. and so forth. Tried the filter. A
marvelous filter that doesn't loses it's bottom when you crank up the
resonance. Just as it should be. And do the band and notch sound tiny
due to their smaller frequency bands, o no, they produce full power. So
when I had tried just basic stuff, I looked at the TGO. I knew thanks
to James Maier's excellent comments on his site, that the left half is
audio oscillator, but the right half can be used for a lot of other
funktions. That was a though one. I couldn't get any sound out of it
till the next day. Then I realised due to the very low and high going
capacity of the Serge that you could lose your sound all together. And
I also learned that you have to flip the switch if you want the right
part of the TGO to work (Doesn't need to plug something in the trig. in
first, what I thougt). But I made several connections to no avail,
until I plugged one banana into the filter and something strange
happened. All of a sudden the whole filter was gone! Yes it was. I
believe I had turned the right side of the TGO into a VC LFO and the
knobs on the filter funktioned as potmetres for the LFO. Quite amazing.
I also got a AR generator out of it, that is to say I think I did.
So a lot of experimenting to do and just by trial and error I will
learn what connections lead to what change in module character.
The sound is beautiful. Full when you need it to be. Clear as glass or
dirty or just plain chaos if you want that. The options are sheer
endless.
So these are my first experiences with the Serge (Triple osc +
Creature).
Hope you enjoy the read.
Cheers,
Roel
Last saterday at 10:15 dutch time a postman with a big package was
standing at my door. The wait was over.
First of all. Kuddos for Rex for the packaging. It was superbly done.
When I had unfolded it, I was stunned by it's beauty. Of course I
drooled over the pics dozens and dozens of times, but to see it in the
flesh. So beautiful. Like the bananas which come in the colours grey,
dark green, yellow and dark read. I followed Rex advice and had ordered
40 (He said you need this amount to get access to all the potential) in
one go. Colourful, but not shouting colours. Just perfect.
Now came the tricky bit. How to connect things? I already knew from
experience that Amerikans do things differently when it comes to
electric accessoires, but wasn't prepared for what apparatus and more I
found in the box. How to connect that was the question. The ground kit
was soon clear, but what about the rest. I had to made several
connections before the Serge and the PS where connected. Then it was a
piece of cake plugging one jack in the X-fader and the other in my
mixer. Switch on at the PS and the Serge came to live, that is one blue
light slowly blinked. No sound of course yet.
First I tried some of the basic stuff. I listened to the different
waveforms of the osc's, tried freq. and so forth. Tried the filter. A
marvelous filter that doesn't loses it's bottom when you crank up the
resonance. Just as it should be. And do the band and notch sound tiny
due to their smaller frequency bands, o no, they produce full power. So
when I had tried just basic stuff, I looked at the TGO. I knew thanks
to James Maier's excellent comments on his site, that the left half is
audio oscillator, but the right half can be used for a lot of other
funktions. That was a though one. I couldn't get any sound out of it
till the next day. Then I realised due to the very low and high going
capacity of the Serge that you could lose your sound all together. And
I also learned that you have to flip the switch if you want the right
part of the TGO to work (Doesn't need to plug something in the trig. in
first, what I thougt). But I made several connections to no avail,
until I plugged one banana into the filter and something strange
happened. All of a sudden the whole filter was gone! Yes it was. I
believe I had turned the right side of the TGO into a VC LFO and the
knobs on the filter funktioned as potmetres for the LFO. Quite amazing.
I also got a AR generator out of it, that is to say I think I did.
So a lot of experimenting to do and just by trial and error I will
learn what connections lead to what change in module character.
The sound is beautiful. Full when you need it to be. Clear as glass or
dirty or just plain chaos if you want that. The options are sheer
endless.
So these are my first experiences with the Serge (Triple osc +
Creature).
Hope you enjoy the read.
Cheers,
Roel