Doepfer

What is the optimum number of oscillators for a Doepfer system?
  Can a polyphonic A100 system be realised?
  If i have VCF3 & VCF5 filters in my system now, which filter do you recommend i add next?
  Thanks.
   


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hello michael


i would recomend you many different oscillators for nice colorful sound.
polyphony can be realized in different ways.
easy : just tune 2 or 3 oscs to a nice chord and use a single cv gate 
signal to play it.
this way you cant change the chord...

difficult : use an analog sequencer (or many sequencers) to play several 
oscs at different pitches
to form a chord. this might be difficult to get going but can be very 
rewarding cause very
nice poly sequences will come up.

filter are never enough for my taste, i use them as oscilators as well 
...from the doepfer collection
there is not one that i wouldnt like im sure !









MICHAEL DOHERTY schrieb:
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> What is the optimum number of oscillators for a Doepfer system?
> Can a polyphonic A100 system be realised?
> If i have VCF3 & VCF5 filters in my system now, which filter do you 
> recommend i add next?
> Thanks.
>
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> What is the optimum number of oscillators for a Doepfer system?

Well that would very much depend on the type of patch you're  
typically going to want to make. In general i think that you can not  
have enough oscillators in a modular. I've currently got 5 ( 1*  
a-111, 3*a-110, 1*planB model15) and am looking at a couple more,  
probably another a-111, two more model 15's, a MFB triple vco and the  
new livewire vco. Oh and obviously the dynamic doepfer vco and the  
quadrature thru-zero vco once they become available ,-)

If you do a lot of drones or single-pitch sounds you can also use the  
doepfer quad lfo as a sound-source, without frequency CV however.  
I've got two of those for that purpose.


> Can a polyphonic A100 system be realised?

Yes. But you'll need a) a MIDI->CV interface that handles polyphony  
as well as b) quite a lot of modules (at least one VCO, VCF, VCA +  
ENV per voice)

> If i have VCF3 & VCF5 filters in my system now, which filter do you  
> recommend i add next?
> Thanks.
>

My faves are the Wasp-Filter, the SSM-Filter, the vatrol multimode  
and the moog 48 db.  I'm quite confident the diode filter is also cool.


Best,

d

If you just want typical polyphonic synth sounds (juno/ jupiter) I think an easier/ cheaper way to get this would be to use an inexpensive poly such as the MKS-20 or the Korg Poly 800 for the polyphonic sound source and then process the sound with the doepfer system.

Tony


> To: doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> From: doherty167@btinternet.com
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 14:36:21 +0000
> Subject: [Doepfer_a100] 3 questions
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> What is the optimum number of oscillators for a Doepfer system?
>   Can a polyphonic A100 system be realised?
>   If i have VCF3 & VCF5 filters in my system now, which filter do you recommend i add next?
>   Thanks.
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Hi Anthony

> If you just want typical polyphonic synth sounds (juno/ jupiter) I think an easier/ cheaper way to get this would be to use an inexpensive poly such as the MKS-20 or the Korg Poly 800 for the polyphonic sound source and then process the sound with the doepfer system.
Right answer, but wrong technical name: MKS-20 is Rolands piano-expander 
from that time, MKS-30 (vulgo JX3P) is assumingly what you thought about.

Btw: used market prices of the MKS-30 are awfully expensive at the 
moment (350 Euros and more!). Poly800 is ok as polyphonc oscillator source.

Florian

Actually I was thinking of the MKS-50.
The Alpha Juno rack. Good catch, because the MKS-30 is def. NOT what this guy is seeking!


Tony

> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> From: Florian.Anwander@consol.de
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:25:10 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Doepfer_a100] 3 questions
> 
> Hi Anthony
> 
> > If you just want typical polyphonic synth sounds (juno/ jupiter) I think an easier/ cheaper way to get this would be to use an inexpensive poly such as the MKS-20 or the Korg Poly 800 for the polyphonic sound source and then process the sound with the doepfer system.
> Right answer, but wrong technical name: MKS-20 is Rolands piano-expander 
> from that time, MKS-30 (vulgo JX3P) is assumingly what you thought about.
> 
> Btw: used market prices of the MKS-30 are awfully expensive at the 
> moment (350 Euros and more!). Poly800 is ok as polyphonc oscillator source.
> 
> Florian
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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