I may be interested if the price is right. -- James Holloway jimh54@... - email (972) 993-2023 x1188 - voicemail/fax ---- 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. > -- > NoRMaN FaY > check out my /<-r/-\/> new band!!! > www.blueappleboy.co.uk > (no pics of me there yet!) > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > __________________________________________________ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com
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Re: [motm] modcan 19a wavetable "oscillator"
2001-02-27 by James Holloway
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