Doepfer

Blacet's have an input which will allow you to transpose up and 
down an octave, depending on if the input has a +1 volt (or 
above) signal -or- a -1 volt (or below) signal at that input.

I think it has to do with the type of synthesis one does.  Keyboard 
performaers I think really prefer this octave switching feature, 
while people who do the type of music which freely goes 
inbtween the 1/2 step tend to prefer a full range pot.

- P


--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "selfoscillate" 
<synaptic_music@y...> wrote:
> 
> hello list,
> 
> after all that chat about vco's, there is one thing i
> really cannot understand.
> 
> the doepfer vco's (a110 and a111) have those rotary octave
> switches and i find them very handy, because it keeps you
> from tuning the vco again if you only want to transpose
> the vco for two or three octaves in order to try something out.
> but doepfer seems to be the only manufacturer who cares
> about this feature. on the other vco's in my system
> (analogue systems, blacet) there is no such switch
> and i wonder why.
> 
> am i the only one who finds these octave switches useful?
> or would you say that it is a feature which is not that important?
> i know that it is no "must-have" feature for me, but it is
> a "very nice to have" feature imho.
> 
> best wishes
> 
> ingo