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I, too, am really startled by the fact that a few people don't want VC on
the Sustain. Why eliminate it? It seems very important to me to control the
aspect of the envelope (whether used with a VCA, VCF, whatever) that is held
through the longest part of the tone! It's a big part of the expression; no
one's made clear to me why it should be left off...! 

I sent a post last week daydreaming about a 1-input-for-velocity-CV jack,
but it was never intended to replace the other 4 CV jacks, just add a
'global' one that could handle the ADSR parameters from an easy single
voltage, with customizing controls.

Then it was pointed out that, if you had a VCADSR with all four CV
parameters available, and you also had a [1u!] 4-GANGED (I know people on
this list hate that for some inexplicable reason) reversible attenuator
module, you could have the same thing in a more flexible, modular fashion.
There would be 4 ins & 4 outs on the attenuator module, but if no plugs were
inserted into Ins 2, 3, & 4, In #1 would cascade down and give you 4
independent phase reversible attenuation outputs based on the one input
without having to waste a multiple (which no one seems to want to gang,
eiether...weird).

These could feed into the VCADSR parameters, allowing a single Velocity CV
feed from the MIDI->CV converter to easily and independently affect all of
the envelope stages without any loss of modularity. I like that idea a lot.



		-----Original Message-----
		From:	David Bivins [mailto:dbivins@...]
		Sent:	Monday, February 14, 2000 1:34 PM
		To:	motm@onelist.com
		Subject:	RE: [motm] VC EG (breadboard) -- new idea

		Please do not eliminate the individual VC points for the
contour
		generator. I will use them like crazy. It's the whole reason
I've posted
		about the VC EG at all, because I've been dying for easily
VC-ed contours. I
		need them....I'm just curious: why does it seem like so many
people don't want full
		control in their modules? When I first brought up the idea
of a fully VC-ed
		contour generator to an individual, his response is "why
would you want
		that?" Now, with this fancy contour generator being talked
about at length,
		some people are fans of a single input that would affect
each stage in a
		flexible and somewhat predictable (in that hopefully you can
predict how you
		set it up!) way, and those same people seem to think that
the individual VC
		inputs are not so necessary. I'm not being critical--I
understand that some
		of you have had this feature in other modular systems and
either didn't find
		it all that useful or found it too cumbersome. But it's
there if you ever do
		want to use it (the feature--singular).