The SSG is indeed a thing from Mars....
The top part, Smooth, is a little more straightforward... it's like a
one-parameter DSG. The rise and fall slope times are both set by the same
rate pot. The other pot, VC Rate, varies the amount of rate control voltage
you might have coming in. But if you don't have any CV patched into the blue
VC rate jack the VC rate pot has no effect.
Why would you use VC rate on the smooth side? If you're using Smooth for
glide, and want to make it glide faster or slower by control voltage, send it
to the VC rate jack, then trim the voltage with the VC rate pot till it's
right.
The Stepped part is a little stranger. It's pretty much a sample and hold
type thing but more generalized.
At full rotation the Stepped rate pot allows the greatest difference of
adjacent steps. So at 100% you get big steps. Back it off, the steps get
smaller and smaller till they're inaudible. If you like ultra micro tonal
sample and hold this is for you. If you send a voltage to control this VC
rate then the VC rate pot adjusts the voltage, just as it does in the Smooth
section. If you don't use a control voltage here the VC rate pot has no
effect, but the Rate pot does.
To get a sample and hold effect using the stepped side, send the signal
you're sampling to the IN jack, and a trigger pulse to SAMPLE. The stepped
output will be at STEPPED OUT.
You can do much more stuff with the SSG but this will get you started.
John P.
moog@... wrote:
The top part, Smooth, is a little more straightforward... it's like a
one-parameter DSG. The rise and fall slope times are both set by the same
rate pot. The other pot, VC Rate, varies the amount of rate control voltage
you might have coming in. But if you don't have any CV patched into the blue
VC rate jack the VC rate pot has no effect.
Why would you use VC rate on the smooth side? If you're using Smooth for
glide, and want to make it glide faster or slower by control voltage, send it
to the VC rate jack, then trim the voltage with the VC rate pot till it's
right.
The Stepped part is a little stranger. It's pretty much a sample and hold
type thing but more generalized.
At full rotation the Stepped rate pot allows the greatest difference of
adjacent steps. So at 100% you get big steps. Back it off, the steps get
smaller and smaller till they're inaudible. If you like ultra micro tonal
sample and hold this is for you. If you send a voltage to control this VC
rate then the VC rate pot adjusts the voltage, just as it does in the Smooth
section. If you don't use a control voltage here the VC rate pot has no
effect, but the Rate pot does.
To get a sample and hold effect using the stepped side, send the signal
you're sampling to the IN jack, and a trigger pulse to SAMPLE. The stepped
output will be at STEPPED OUT.
You can do much more stuff with the SSG but this will get you started.
John P.
moog@... wrote:
> so, i get my first 3 panels yesterday and spend the night twiddling
> away. the system is made up a blue voice, red control, and tkb
> sequencer.
>
> everything seems to be working as it should except the smooth stepped
> generator. the rate knobs don't seem to control anything and i can
> get it to generate smooth or stepped patterns. so, before i go off
> and send the thing in to rex for repair, could someone give me a
> basic setup patch on how this thing is supposed to work? i have the
> sneaking suspicion that i might just not be getting the approproriate
> way to hook this thing up. i'd be happy as a pig in filth if i could
> just get it sample and holding.
>
> james
>
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