MOTM

Regarding the graphic I sent around yesterday, here's another feature that
hit me at 2AM.

The mode switch as shown flips the quad reversible-attenuators between MIXER
mode (where the *outputs post-attenuator* are tied together), DISTRIBUTER
mode (where the *inputs pre-fader* are tied together) and ATTENUATORS where
the four sets of IN-LEVEL-OUT are *totally independent of each other.*

How about if, in Attenuators mode, for any one of the four stages that you
do NOT plug an input jack into, the knob & output jack act as a -10~+10 bias
voltage source?

I think you could squeeze a lot of flexible function out of a module like
that with minimal electronics.

Sounds like a great idea. I'm not sure how you'd actually make it work. You
want to tie V+ to the normalling lugs of the input jacks, but only if you
are in Atten mode. I guess you'd have to run it through an analog gate per
jack or something, switched by the mode switch. It would take a little
clever designinging to allow a common double pole center off switch to
control 3 separate modes. You could always go with triple throw, I guess.

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
>
> How about if, in Attenuators mode, for any one of the four stages that you
> do NOT plug an input jack into, the knob & output jack act as a
> -10~+10 bias
> voltage source?
>
> I think you could squeeze a lot of flexible function out of a module like
> that with minimal electronics.
>
>