..... Please take note that my approach of regulating is not the only way and so is my explaination ;-) Hope you got the idea Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone SE Lunatik > Op 19 aug. 2016 om 18:22 heeft Jacco Ville jaccoville@yahoo.com [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> het volgende geschreven: > > I noticed some different behaviour of my A156's when testing my setup. > With a tuner on an A110 tuning from the A155 from C to C (seq knob fully ccw and cw) some came to C or B and when switching between 1V 2V and 4V it was not consistent. > So.... Time to make voltages visible. > Yesterday I finished fine tuning my four A156's and five A155's. > Once you know the drill it's not difficult, all it takes is some time and a precision voltage and measurement. > I used the A185-2 as a voltage source > and a Jones O'Tool Plus oscilloscope with a dual screen for voltage measurement in mV. > One input as source, the other from the A156. > As Dieter said, watch the offset. > Switch your precision adder between 0V and 4V. > I noticed there was a different quantizing sometimes (after regulating the P4 first!) when switching between 1V and 4V. > Then it made one step (note) to far (up). Then the P1 (cv1) or P2(cv2) comes in handy to regulate the threshold of the quantizer. > It acts as an attenuator, you can set quantizer steps earlier or later. > I made a list with calculated steps from 0,0833 to 1.000V and so it's easy to check where the threshold is for every step. > > I used the attenuator from the 185-2 to walk through those steps and regulated that quantizing takes place at about 0,015V before the next step (note voltage) which leaves enough room for "minus offset" sequencer voltages. > > Cheers > Good luck > > Jacco Ville > > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone SE Lunatik > >> Op 19 aug. 2016 om 16:59 heeft Nicholas Keller maq163x2@gmail.com [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> het volgende geschreven: >> >> >> I hadn't thought to check the 156 for adjustment. I've been struggling with tuning for some time now and almost always have a 156 in the patch. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll check the scale of my 155 while I'm at it! >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Jacco Ville jaccoville@yahoo.com [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> ....And I certainly will do that. >>> Learning learning.... >>> >>> Funny thing, I am more collecting and adjusting my Doepfer setup (or Dieter room as my wife is calling it) then making sounds. >>> But I think it is the best way to know the working of every part of this system. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Jacco Ville >>> >>> >>> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone SE Lunatik >>> >>>> Op 18 aug. 2016 om 12:19 heeft yahoo@doepfer.de [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> het volgende geschreven: >>>> >>>> >>>> > .... By the way ;-) >>>> > >>>> > I found out the attenuator function of P1 and P2 >>>> > Very handy to set the threshold of the quantizer behaviour. >>>> > I noticed that with critical voltages from my A155's with a knob >>>> > fully cw the voltage of 0.970V in 1V modus was not enough to get >>>> > a full scale from C to C. >>>> > Now I made the threshold of the A156 a few mV earlier to deal with >>>> > this problem. >>>> > >>>> > Cheers >>>> > >>>> > Jacco Ville >>>> > The Netherlands >>>> >>>> That's a solution. But the correct way would be to adjust the A-155 so that >>>> it outputs 1.0V in 1V mode. For this a trimming potentiometer (P9') is >>>> available on the upper A-155 potentiometer board. >>>> >>>> Best wishes >>>> Dieter Doepfer >>>> > >
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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Tuning references for A156 quantizer
2016-08-19 by Jacco Ville
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