The ARP Pro Soloist oscillator control continued: When looking at the schematic it becomes clear that the octave switching is actually happening in two places: - In the DAC there is just a "correction voltage" generated. The output of the DAC actually "restarts" for every octave. So the CV coming directly out of the DAC is not continuous for the whole keyboard. - The second octave switching happens in the Frequency to Voltage convertor. This one comes AFTER the Master oscillator but (surprisingly) controls it with a kind of feedback loop. Given the nature of the error I would look there, specifically Z1, Z3 and Z4. The follow through Z22 up to the differential amplifier at Z23. Please keep us updated. I've always been fascinated by the way those two ARP synths were designed; and this gives me a good excuse to learn a bit more about this design.
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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Arp challenge.
2012-12-20 by Malte Rogacki
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