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Re: [motm] Adding CLK OUT to MOTM-101?

2002-11-10 by Paul Schreiber

It's an easy mod, and I think Dave Bradley at www.hotrodmotm.com has already done it.

Paul S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Schabtach" <adam@...>
To: "MOTM listserv" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 3:24 PM
Subject: [motm] Adding CLK OUT to MOTM-101?


> Today I was watching the LED on my MOTM-101 Noise/S&H module blink merrily
> away. It crossed my mind that it would be handy if that clock signal could
> be used to drive other things. Sure, you can use an LFO to drive the S&H and
> other things, but if you could drive everything from the 101's clock, you'd
> free up an LFO for more interesting tasks. So then I noticed that there's
> even room for another jack in the lower row of the 101's panel, whereupon my
> interest was sufficiently piqued to pull out the schematic.
> 
> It looks like tapping the output of the 555 timer would be easy enough. It
> even looks like there is an unused section of a TL072 wired as a unity-gain
> buffer which could be used to buffer the 555's output, although you'd have
> to cut a PCB trace to free the grounded input, which is kind of scary.
> 
> Has anyone tried this? Any reason why it's not a good idea? I realize that
> the 555-based clock probably isn't as stable as the MOTM oscillator core
> found in the 320 LFO, but in many instances it is probably good enough.
> 
> --Adam
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