Doepfer

> amnesia <amnesia@...> wrote:
>           Hi all
> 
> I just bought my first Doepfers this week....I didn't want to ask for 
> sounding stupid, but with the A149 can someone give me an example of a 
> patch to use for this what is CVDin etc? oh and again adsrs i understand 
> on my Jupiter 8 but can someone give me a patch example please? :-)\\
> 
> Harry Hopless

IMHO the legend on the front of the module isn't very obvious. It's for the lower right 
output next to "Man D" and not the more "obvious" output horizontally in line with the CV 
D In jack and knob. 

Okay so feed say a square LFO wave into the lower clock in. Take the lower right output 
and connect it to something you can easily  hear CV control changes in. Like a filter cutoff 
or VCO CV input. You should hear the sound changing randomly. Now try the Man D knob 
and see how it changes like the little bell curve illustration. It's showing the low middle 
and high settings superimposed but of course you can adjust between those illustrated 
settings.

So then as to answer your question, input 0-5 volts into CV D - perhaps an LFO of any 
shape lasting several seconds will work, something fast will make it hard to hear a change. 
What will happen is it will CV the distribution shape as the Man D knob will. Turn the CV D 
knob all the way up and the Man D all the way down to start since the Man D knob has a 
summing effect on your CV.

Also though it may be really obvious, keep in mind that the module is meant to output a 
control signal, so in other words, it's meant to randomly control just about anything else 
with a CV input (even itself) rather than for instance process or produce audio.

Actually I'm curious about any good tricks to use the A-149-2. I know the obvious use 
would be to trigger multiple envelopes or anything that uses a gate. And I guess one could 
feed some outputs into the Boolean module (if you own one) to get more semi-
randomness. I bet the intent would be to take advantage of But are there any other neat 
and less obvious uses anyone knows? I could guess that some A-129-3 vocoder slews or 
the vocoder Synthesis module would yield some good experiments.