SergeModular

hey Roel,

Sounds very fun... I think you should patch up the SSG with smooth
side going to the filter cv and the step side controlling the pitch of
the osc's, and have them FM each other(and maybe back to the SSG for
bizzare feedback)!!! Serge is pure analog fun!

exciting!!

later,
ben
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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
>