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Hey guys, I am mostly quiet on the list as I don't know much about all this yet, but I love to read
all the stuff.  I have finally found some time today for messing
around with my modules and everything seems to work ok. I have built the 420 Filter, 800 EG, and 190
VCA so far. The 800 seems to need a pretty slow frequency trigger/gate to really have much affect on
the Filter or the VCA. But I ran my 909 through them with my MC202  providing the gate and it was
pretty cool sounding. Not much luck using the 909 as trigger though. Anyway if anyone has any
patching or setup advice I would love to hear it, as I am new to this and I am sure I don't know what
I am doing. Also, what do you all think is a good next piece? I was thinking the 300 VCO would be the
logical choice but I am open to suggestion in this regard as well, maybe I should get another 800 or
another filter before I get the 300? Thanks in advance for any helpful words you may have.

Eric Wood
Wisconsin



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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Wood wrote:
> around with my modules and everything seems to work ok. I have built the 420 Filter, 800 EG, and 190
> VCA so far. The 800 seems to need a pretty slow frequency trigger/gate to really have much affect on

That's enough for some serious kick :) Put the filter into self res, and 
drop the frequency low. Now it's a sinewave oscillator, which we're going 
to change the pitch on using an EG. Then use the 909 (I use an 808) to 
trigger the gate on the 800. Set the attack and decay to nothing, the 
sustain to around mid, and the release to taste.

With no sustain and release you will only here sound for the length of the 
gate trigger. Which is almost nothing ;)

The positive output from the 800 goes into FM1 on the 420, adjust FM1 to 
taste. By playing with the attack, hold, and release times on the 800 and 
the FM1 on the filter you can get an amazing array of kicks, everything 
from heavy hip-hop type booms to no-hope-for-mankinds-future psytrance 
death kicks. Play around. Get a feel for how different parameters change 
different aspects of the sound.

> I am doing. Also, what do you all think is a good next piece? I was thinking the 300 VCO would be the
> logical choice but I am open to suggestion in this regard as well, maybe I should get another 800 or
> another filter before I get the 300? Thanks in advance for any helpful words you may have.

Two 300s, not one. You'll thank me later. 300's have the sync jack.  Then 
the 440, which (I believe) is Paul's best filter. It's the one I use the 
most anyway, I have 2 of those. Oh, and a 910, which I use in every patch 
;)

--mikes

> Two 300s, not one. You'll thank me later. 300's have the sync jack.  
> Then the 440, which (I believe) is Paul's best filter. It's the one I 
> use the most anyway, I have 2 of those. Oh, and a 910, which I use in 
> every patch ;)
> 
> --mikes

I'll second both of those thoughts.  Two oscillators are *so* much
more fun that one (and the 300 is a lot more versatile than the 310 -
if I was buying my rig all over again, I'd have four 300s instead of
two 300s and two 310s).

The 440 is also my favourite filter so far.

Harry

p.s. You can never have too many VCAs...