MOTM

In message <961nmu+ndve@...>, mate_stubb@... writes
>Has anyone ever played with either a Serge or Modcan Peak and Trough 
>module? What kinds of cool stuff can you do with it?
>
>I've been thinking I might build one up. Seems to me all you need are 
>some analog gates and comparators to control them.
>
>Moe
>
>
I have the modcan morph wave/peak&trough module (morph wave is like 2/3
of the serge triple waveshaper module, 'though modcan adds an invertable
CV pot to each waveshaper, which is very useful.)  You can plug any
amount of inputs from 1 to four into it, and the two outputs give you
the highest voltage and the lowest at any point in time.   I must
confess that my explorations with this function have been a bit limited,
and the effect is quite hard to describe as well.  Feeding it with just
two VCOs, the effect is similar to a ring modulator in that it
accentuates the beating effect when they are close-tuned, and becomes
quite dissonant when they are tuned to inharmonic intervals.  Using more
than two VCOs - well, you'd better then run it through a low pass
filter, is all I'll say...!
I think I'd describe it as a "lets try it and see what happens" type of
module - not one of the essentials, but kind of unpredictable, fun &
interesting.  So it *is* cool...looking at the PCB of the modcan module,
the circuit looks REALLY simple as well.
Hey! As I write, I've just finished cutting a flat-pack pine bookshelf
to size on the work sawbench, thus turning it into a 3-row x 7-column
motm rack (gulp - I've got a *lot* of spaces to fill now!)
I got my 4 modcan modules last week, BTW - ladder filter,
phaser/waveshaper, dual LFO and wavetable.  I'll report on MOTM
compatibility after this weekend
best etc.
-- 
norman fay