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Howdy Michael!

The nomenclature or waveform icons surrounding the knob
are in convenient places for the panel art only, if you look
with a scope at the MORPH Outs, or at least experiment
with the knob setting a little more, you should find a spot where
the transients are sharp enough to pop an envelope, or whatever
action you wanted the transient to make.  (Not knowing what
type of circuitry it was being fed to, it's kind of hard to know).

The actual "square" part of the waveform doesn't occur at the
place in the arc of the knob graphics depicting where the square
wave out to be, so hopefully it will just happen for you at another
location in the rotation.

Hope this helps ya!

Cynthia


Michael Zacherl, Vienna/Austria wrote:

> Hi Morbius, Mike, Cynthia & All!
>
> I'm sorry, it was dumb that I didn't provide any further information
> about the configuration.
> To me it was that clear and simple that I just didn't think of it -
> sorry. :-(
>
> The only patch cable I put on the ZO was the pulse out to a LP-filter.
> Nothing else.
> By "playing around" I ment flicking switches, turning knobs etc. and
> check what changes while doing that.
>
> The jitter is a frequency jitter, I'm pretty sure. It sounds like if you
> apply a deeply filtered noise at a very low level to the exp-input of 
> a VCO.
> It's better audible at lower frequencies (~200-500Hz) and basically not
> very strong.
> I thought of a bad cable, a loose connection and tried others - no luck.
> The other waveforms are stable (checked with the same cable and filter,
> just plugged into the other sockets on the ZO).
>
> So far I didn't set up my scope and counter to check this (will do this
> on the weekend) nor I found time to check the other two ZOs (also doing
> this WE).
>
> I went through the manual even before I purchased the ZOs as part of the
> decision making process and I'm looking it up quite often. Sometimes I
> wish there would be more detail - like what's the best input signal
> range to bring the the FM-index input to full effect? At least I didn't
> get a clue from that what I could read.
>
> Yesterday I used the ZO in the rehearsal the first time and I'm pleased.
> I was doing pretty noisy stuff (like I was asked to do so) and smoothing
> the sound later on and get rich varying timbres was a breeze. I started
> to love it. Of course I was not even scratching the surface and I've to
> really explore the ZO and investigate it's functions and ranges.
>
> So far there is one thing I'm sorry about: The morphed signals don't
> deliver nice transients when set to squarish waveform in LFO-mode.
> I played around and alternatively feed the pulse out and one of the
> morphed out to a LP-filter with high Q so that it rings when pulsed and
> there's clearly a difference (the pulse is much sharper).
> But I'm sure that's a matter of principle as how the morph circuitry 
> works.
>
> I'm really looking forward to all the new things I can pull out of it.
> Now I've to put more pressure on the cabinet maker that I get my new box
> soon so that I can fit the other ZOs as well. ;-)
>
> Thanks, Michael. (still w/o Internet @home)
>
> Am 2006-08-02 18:11, ~Morbius~ schrieb:
>
> >
> > I am far from being a qualified e-tech... but I can tell you this:
> > The ZO is unlike any other oscillator... and in many ways, does not
> > always behave like your regular, run-of-the-mill osc. The range is way
> > beyond anything else, for one thing.
> >
>
> Am 2006-08-02 20:07, Mike Marsh schrieb:
> >
> > Perhaps you could describe how you have it patched? And what do you
> > mean by jitter? Is it more like freq jitter or PWM jitter or
> > something else?
>
>