Doepfer

You find some comments inline

Dieter Doepfer

> 1)
> As someone who likes to run external audio signals thru my modular (guitar
> mostly) I would like a pitch SHIFTER... But with all the tweakage one
would
> expect on a modular, and a quantiser built in. The ability to have a
> sequencer (155) play a tune on an oscillator AND change the pitch shifting
> on a pitch shifter would be great... I curently do this by routing CVs out
> to the pedal input of a stomp box pitch shifter, but its not giving known
> pitches that are musically the same as 1 octave per volt. So this would be
> lovely!!

Currently I see no way to built an analog pitch shifter with acceptable
efforts/costs.
But the VC DSP module will include a pitch shifter. Let's see how it
works/sounds and if 1V/Oct control is possible. We are still working on this
module and will have to find out if it can be made.

> 2)
> A new sampler module, the curent one is great, but I want/need something
> that can be set to record via a gate signal, and has variable in and out
> (sample trim) points (this might be simerlar, the same as the Harvestman
> module, n´dont know, havent got one... yet)

Probably the planned digital delay module will be able to do this job (but I
cannot promise it at this state of the design, we will have to find out if
the calculation power of the microcontroller is sufficient for these
additional features)

3a)
> This ones more fuzzy... I imagine a filter, that is at one end of its
range
> a regular filter, which REMOVES frequencys from an input, but at the other
> end ADDs frequencies. Soft to harsh in one box. variable (CV-able)
Freqency
> cutoff/add, Q control, and someway to vary continously the frequencys you
> are cutting and adding...

A combination of the wave multiplier A-137-1 (adds frequencies/harmonics)
and a low pass filter ?

> 3b)
> Also filters always have a switch to choose whether its a Low pass, Band
> pass or high pass... why not 2 variable controls one for the bottom limits
> of the filter one for the top limits. So if the Bottom control was at 0
and
> the Top at 3 you get a Low pass, Bottom is at 6 top is at 10, you  get a
High
> pass, Bottom is at 3, top is at 6, you get a band pass?

Technically no problem but would increase the price of a filter clearly (for
some filters it would double the price or even more) as one needs a three
way VC mixer (i.e. 3 VCAs with a common output) and a small morphing
controller like the A-144 but with 3 outputs only. You can realize this with
existing modules: A-135 and A-144.

> 4)
> Oh and I want a simple combination VCA and AR module, 2 at least in one
> panel...(just an audio in out and a gate input for each) I REALLY REALLY
> HATE having to patch a ADSR to a VCA everytime... and I NEVER use
> D or S... cos Im always sequencing/triggering, not playing a keyboard.

That's already on our to-do-list (another A-143-x module): a quad VCA with
separate A/R generator for each VCA
b.t.w. some more economically priced quad modules are in the holding
pattern: a quad VCLFO/VCO, a quad VCA with common/separate CV controls and
common/separate outputs, and the mentioned quad VCA/AR.

>
> Mark
>
> --
> www.markfrancombe.com
> http://vimeo.com/user825094
> http://uk.youtube.com/user/markfrancombe
> http://www.myspace.com/markfrancombe
> www.looop.no
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>