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Re: some notes about the new doepfer stuff

2004-09-22 by selfoscillate

hello scott,

yes, that is the most obvious solution  for the problem.
i use an a131 vca for such applications. works well.

best wishes

ingo



--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Scott E." <yahudinyhwh@s...> 
wrote:
> Hey ingo and Peter,
> 
> If either of these have a sufficient dynamic range, why not a 
simple 
> noise gate on the output to cure the bleed through? If it was 
applied 
> gently enough, I don't see where it would adversely affect the 
character 
> of the filter as the noise gate should be out of the way by the 
time the 
> envelope got back past the bleed through level. I've heard a number 
of 
> "soft" gates on noisy synth outputs to keep the noise levels down 
in a 
> studio, why not on a single module? Just a thought.
> 
> Scott E.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
---------
> selfoscillate wrote:
> > hello peter,
> > 
> > the bleedthrough in vca-mode is not too loud.
> > i'll try to measure it when i'm on holidays next week.
> > 
> > on the a101/2 you cannot hear the bleeding in the other
> > two modes because the module has a very low minimum
> > cutoff frequency. so all the audible frequencies are
> > fully attenuated when the frequency/amplitude knob
> > is fully counterclockwise. at least this is what i've
> > observed so far. by end of this week i'll get another
> > a101/2 and then i'll do some more investigations.
> > 
> > yes, the lpg with resonance must be close to a borg in
> > lowpass mode. i really like the sound of the lpg.
> > this makes me looking forward to wiards reissue of
> > the borg filter. i hope that it will come out soon,
> > i already have reserved some rackspace for it ;-)
> > 
> > best wishes
> > 
> > ingo
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure 
that 
> > out)" <peter@b...> wrote:
> > 
> >>--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "selfoscillate" 
> >><synaptic_music@y...> wrote:
> >>
> >>in vca mode there is always a bit of a signal feedthrough,
> >>which is not noticable in the other two modes.
> >>afaik this is because of the characteristics of the
> >>vactrols and a known side-effect. no problem imho,
> >>it's the sound that counts. now i understand why the
> >>buchla lowpass gate has such a good reputation.
> >>i need to buy another one soon.
> >> 
> >>Interestingly enough, while the 291 lowpass gate does have bleed, 
> > 
> > it does 
> > 
> >>only in the other two modes, not the VCA mode.  Regardless, Self 
> > 
> > speaks the 
> > 
> >>truth here.  It's a quality of vatrols, the photo resistor being 
> > 
> > the cuplrit - they 
> > 
> >>don't close down all the way, never will.
> >>
> >>I would be interested to know the amount of bleed though.  The 
291 
> > 
> > is fine 
> > 
> >>when used with Buchla signal levels (basically they are line 
> > 
> > outputs), but with 
> > 
> >>Deopfer/Blacet/everybody else's in the six volt range, there's 
> > 
> > about 3mv.  I've 
> > 
> >>been able to get this down to about a 1/4 of mv by throughing in 
a 
> > 
> > bit of 
> > 
> >>feedback in internally.  It does effect the amount of ringing 
> > 
> > (which you want in 
> > 
> >>a LGP), but you can easily pre-select your vactrols so that's not 
a 
> > 
> > problem.
> > 
> >>Diet:  with your  res pot, you've got something close a lowpass 
> > 
> > Borg filter.  
> > 
> >>- Peter
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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