Here's a weird one... anyone think of how this could be done with conventional modules, or otherwise (I have to keep you clever people challenged)? How can I describe this. Is there any way to transform a CV so that, lets say on a graph, as the input CV rises linearly, the output goes up, down, up down? Kind of sinusoidally? Know what I mean? Say you were applying this to a keyboard voltage. As you played up the keyboard, the transformed voltage would rise to say 5v, then start dropping back to 0v, rise to 5v... At one setting, for example, it could be that the output CV rose as you approach "F," peaks at 5v on F, starts dropping back to 0v ast you approach C-ish, then rises agin to hit 5v at the next "F" .... I don't know how else to describe the effect I'm after. Why do I ask? Well, anything that can mangle a CV in a repeatable way is useful to me in a modular, for one thing. This particular idea arose from some daydreaming I'm doing about creating formats in a weird, roundabout way and it occured to me that I couldn't think of how to do this. I imagine a module that would take a CV in and, over its range, convert it to the above with an adjustable number/placement of 'humps.' In fact, in the past I've often thought about a general Transform Module---CV in, CV out, and a rotary switch for transform 'type' with a knob to adjust it's effect. Transforms available might be Linear (no effect), Exponmential, Anti-log, Sigmoid, etc. etc. Plus the weird effect I can't even name, above. The thinking for this Transform Module came out of some stuff I was doing late last year working on moving neural net concepts over to a modular synthesizer. Part of it is haunting me again. Okay, I know you're all saying, "What's a _matter_ with this guy, anyway?"
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Module Concept -- CV Transformer
2000-04-16 by Tkacs, Ken
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