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Re: [motm] modcan 19a wavetable "oscillator"

2001-02-27 by James Holloway

I may be interested if the price is right.

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---- norman fay <kay-rad@...> wrote:
> I seem to remember some mention of this a few weeks ago, and a
> listmember has emailed me privately to ask about it, so here's a little
> bit of info. The module is not an oscillator in itself, but needs to
> be
> driven by a square/pulse wave. there are 64 digital waveforms available,
> divided up thusly: a switch selects one of two groups, each group
> contains  4 banks, and each bank contains 8 waveforms.  The waveforms
> are genrally interesting, synthetic sounding, and work well with filters
> - high resonance picks out interesting harmonics!  The banks and waves
> can be selected by pushbutton, or by a trigger input.  it does *not*
> do
> wave table sweeps like a ppg or wiard waveform city.   The 19a divides
> the driving pulse wave by the number of steps in the waveform.  I didn't
> check too carefully, I'm embarrased to admit, but I think its /16 IE
> 4
> octaves down.  It will track right down into the LFO range, so you
> can
> get weird pattern lfo sweeps, or even sequencer effects with a little
> fiddling.   There are 2 things I haven't tried yet.  One of them is
> driving it from a MOTM VCO - the modcan vco's square and saw outs are
> +ve going only, as opposed to MOTM's bipolar waves, but I don't forsee
> any problems.  The other thing is the "sync" socket.  this works like
> the sync socket on a regular VCO, but one sweeps the driving oscillator
> to get the effect.  I'm guessing that on receiving a "leading edge",
> the
> module resets the wave to its start.  I'll test both these things on
> wednesday, and report.
> Now, there was some mention of a larry h motm format panel for this,
> IIRC, and also IIRC, I believe that someone mentiones that paul s wasn't
> panning a wavetable module? Please correct if I'm wrong.  Of course,I
> had to ask modcan's bruce duncan if he'd be willing to supply  an ultra-
> basic stripped down vesion of the modcan wavetable oscillator, so
> (larry) could possibly produce panels for it.  
> 
> his reply....
> 
> "Maybe...If enough people were interested I could modify the design
> to
> suit
> I need to find a supply for the 2732 non cmos eeprom that the wavetable
> 
> uses as my current supply is getting low.
> Tell the guy to contact me and perhaps we can arrange something."
>   
> So, I'm wondering what the interest would be, and if larry would be
> up
> for it?  Oh, the power requirements are compatible with MOTM, although
> the connector on the wavetable pcb is a three-pin version of the MOTM
> connector, with only one (centre) ground wire.  
> 
> I should point out that I wouldn't be up for a stooge panel for my
> 19a
> module, as I *really* like modcan's graphics, and I'm building MOTM
> and
> Modcan systems up in parallel (score so far - motm 10, modcan 6), in
> seperate cases...however.....I know a lot of you are motm-format only
> types...
> 
> best etc.
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