Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Guess I posted the message too soon.
Velocity was indeed modulating the VCA.

But, gaining the VCA did improve the digital fuzz problem...

cheers,
David


--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "ski_ex5tech <ex5tech@e...>" <ex5tech@e...> wrote:
> There may or may not be an actual bug, but Ravi makes a good point.  
> In addition to the VCA velocity setting, there are quite a few other 
> parameters that could be modulating (i.e. raising) the VCA level.  
> 
> Also keep in mind that even if the initial VCA level and the VCA 
> Envelope sustain level are both set to zero, the Envelope IS still 
> going to be triggered by every "note on" message.  Theoretically, 
> that situation should still result in absolute silence, but in 
> practice, you might hear a little low level noise or glitch, 
> especially with analog circuits.
> 
> Good discussion topic, though, David.  I'll give it a try myself on 
> old #00009 when I get to the house.
> 
> 
> Ski
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> --- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Ivan Sharma" 
> <noision1@h...> wrote:
> > I haven't tried it yet, but is velocity set to zero too? And what 
> serial number is your unit?
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: dvdborn <dvdborn@y...> 
> >   To: DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com 
> >   Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:45 AM
> >   Subject: [Evolver] VCA amount bug
> > 
> > 
> >   Did anyone else experienced the following bug?
> > 
> >   When the VCA env amount = 0 and VCA level = 0, the VCA still gets 
> triggered by the VCA env.
> > 
> >   And when this happens you hear the digital fuzz problem that many 
> of you already described on this list.
> > 
> >   You could try it yourself. Just dial up patch 128 in Bank 2, it's 
> a very simple patch. It's got the VCA env amount = 0 and the VCA 
> level = 0 values by default. 
> > 
> >   I noticed that when I raised the VCA env amount to 100, the 
> digital fuzz problem dissapeared almost completly.
> > 
> >   David
> > 
> >   VX600: http://kunst.phlimburg.be/vx600/
> > 
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