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--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "roelelec" <r.steverink@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>