Discussion about the Korg PolySix synthesizer

well on polysix there are 3 trimpots on the top of each voice chain. i
think the first is cutoff CV offset and the second is scale. i'm not
100%.

i could be wrong though and maybe there's just one trimpot - just for CV offset.

jure

On 4/20/06, Niels Ott <niels.ott@web.de> wrote:
> jure zitnik wrote:
> > i don't know about the trident but on polysix you have 2 pots for
> > filter tuning (you're actutally tuning cutoff, not resonance):
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> Yes, true, as the SSM2044 will produce a sine wave at its cutoff frequency.
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> > one for VCF offset
> > one for VCF scale
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> I can't match those names with any hearing expierence from my tuning.  ;-)
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> There are three pots on the Trident Mk2, one seems to control cuttoff
> freq (is this what you call scale?) and the other one amount of
> resounance. The third one I don't know...
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> > however, expect that the tracking will be way worse than VCO's
> > tracking. maybe 3 usable octaves.
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> Hm the VCO tuning works great. I tuned it according to the document from
> the files section of this Yahoo group and it's reasonably stable.
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> (I'm using a simple KORG guitar tuner for all of this.)
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> But back on topic: It seems to me that there should be a general "tuning
> knob" for the VCF. The voices are alright now, they sound all the same
> and (in my ears) as they should.
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> It's just that the high and low octaves of VCF resonance don't really
> match the tuning. (The VCO is alright.)
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> Isn't there a similar tuning mechanism as for the VCO?
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> I'm not so keen on guessing by twiddling with trimpots. I don't like to
> mess things up.
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>    NIels
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