Doepfer

Just took delivery of an A-116 from Enport and while his service 
was terrific, I have to say I was a little underwhelmed with the unit 
itself.  It just doesn't do a lot.  If any of you have any tricks you've 
learned to enhance it's sound let me know.

I was able to get a very interesting sound out of it however by 
combining it with his VCswitch in a very odd way.  You might 
want to try this at home:

Connect a sine into the A-116.  VC the shift with a ramp LFO.  
Listen to it.  You will hear a tiny bit of waveshape modulation, 
nothing to go bats over.

Take the output of the A-116 and route it into the INACTIVE I/0 
jack of the VC switch (the one in which the LED is OFF).  do not 
connect a VC into the switch, let it stay in that state.  Listen to the 
output of the VC switch.

You will hear an incredible amplification of the waveshaping 
effect now.  I have no idea why this is happening.  If there is no 
VC into the switch in order to connect the output (wiper) to the 
normally open contact (the I/0 without the LED on), then you 
shouldn't hear a damn thing....but you do.  I tried it on both the 
upper and lower VC swtch, worked like a charm.

try it,m you might like it.

best,

Peter Grenader