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What is everyone's opinion of the A-110?

I am building a system and have seen many negative reviews of these 
oscillators. I realise that the Plan B model 15 and Livewire AFG's are 
great, but how do you rate the Doepfer A-110? I am interisted in bass 
lines and experimaental sounds? Do these oscillators have the guts to 
do the job? 

Let me know what you think...

Thanks,

Mike

I think that people are not as excited about the A110 because there is nothing new or fancy about it! 

It is true that new designs from Plan B and Livewire are more impressive, BUT the A110 serves great purpose to me for several reasons:

Small! The AFG is massive and the Model 15 eats up a fair amount of HP as well. The 110 is perfect for small systems or to have as a modulating oscillator in tandem with the Model 15.

Inexpensive. If you need several oscillators the combined small size and price makes the 110 a good choice for large systems as well.

The Octave selection is nice.

The sound of the A-110 has it's quirks. For example the "Sine" wave is more like a softly clipped square (probably a tri to sine circuit in use there). 

The Fine Tune control is not so useful to me. Which makes me think that it would be a cool mod to change the "Tune" from a fine type control to a fine/ coarse control. Basically increase the percentage of offset.

Another cool mod would be to make a LFO setting on the octave switch. What a nice LFO it would make!

For bass, drums, sound effects or as modulation osc. the 110 is very useful in my opinion. It is not the most stable oscillator, and so keep that in mind when determining your system. A-111 is more stable.

Tony


> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> From: prscrptn@yahoo.com
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:48:13 +0000
> Subject: [Doepfer_a100] A-110???
> 
> What is everyone's opinion of the A-110?
> 
> I am building a system and have seen many negative reviews of these 
> oscillators. I realise that the Plan B model 15 and Livewire AFG's are 
> great, but how do you rate the Doepfer A-110? I am interisted in bass 
> lines and experimaental sounds? Do these oscillators have the guts to 
> do the job? 
> 
> Let me know what you think...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 

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Hi Mike

> What is everyone's opinion of the A-110?
> 
> I am building a system and have seen many negative reviews of these 
> oscillators. I realise that the Plan B model 15 and Livewire AFG's are 
> great, but how do you rate the Doepfer A-110? I am interisted in bass 
> lines and experimaental sounds? Do these oscillators have the guts to 
> do the job? 
Basically the 110's are based on the same VCO schematics as in the moog 
prodigy (and others). This is soundwise not the worst relationship.

I know only about two aspects which might be seen as negative:
1.) octave tracking is ok only over four or five octaves (not relevant 
for bass)
2.) continuous tuning is available only for ~6 or 7 semitones. Wider 
tunings have to be done with the octave switches. If you don't like 
this, then the tuning range can be extended very easy (adding a single 
resistor).

Florian

Florian, looking at the schematic, it appears that R5 would be the Resistor to change. Drop it down to 470K or so... I'll try this tonight.

On the idea for modifying the A-110 for a super low freq mode, I would need to spend more time to figure something like that... any ideas? I think this would be a GREAT mod as the 110 has everything you could want in an LFO.

Tony



> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> From: Florian.Anwander@consol.de
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:06:28 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Doepfer_a100] A-110???
> 
> Hi Mike
> 
> > What is everyone's opinion of the A-110?
> > 
> > I am building a system and have seen many negative reviews of these 
> > oscillators. I realise that the Plan B model 15 and Livewire AFG's are 
> > great, but how do you rate the Doepfer A-110? I am interisted in bass 
> > lines and experimaental sounds? Do these oscillators have the guts to 
> > do the job? 
> Basically the 110's are based on the same VCO schematics as in the moog 
> prodigy (and others). This is soundwise not the worst relationship.
> 
> I know only about two aspects which might be seen as negative:
> 1.) octave tracking is ok only over four or five octaves (not relevant 
> for bass)
> 2.) continuous tuning is available only for ~6 or 7 semitones. Wider 
> tunings have to be done with the octave switches. If you don't like 
> this, then the tuning range can be extended very easy (adding a single 
> resistor).
> 
> Florian
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 

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> On the idea for modifying the A-110 for a super low freq mode, I
> would need to spend more time to figure something like that...
> any ideas? I think this would be a GREAT mod as the 110 has
> everything you could want in an LFO.
>
> Tony

Simply add a capacitor in parallel to C1 (1nF). If you use a three-position
switch that adds two different capacitos (e.g. 10n and 100n) you obtain 3
ranges: ./.10  -  normal - ./.100

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

Awesome. 2 simple mods that make this oscillator super exciting to me. 

Tony

> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> From: hardware@doepfer.de
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:05:22 +0200
> Subject: AW: [Doepfer_a100] A-110???
> 
> > On the idea for modifying the A-110 for a super low freq mode, I
> > would need to spend more time to figure something like that...
> > any ideas? I think this would be a GREAT mod as the 110 has
> > everything you could want in an LFO.
> >
> > Tony
> 
> Simply add a capacitor in parallel to C1 (1nF). If you use a three-position
> switch that adds two different capacitos (e.g. 10n and 100n) you obtain 3
> ranges: ./.10  -  normal - ./.100
> 
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 

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Last try to get a trade for some of these:

Doepfer: A-156 quantizer, A145 LFO, 

Banalogue: WVX Serge Waveshaper

Blacet: Improbability Drive (modded for audio signal processing and quantizer control), Micro LFO, Dual VCA

Boss Dr-110 (modded for VC of snr and cymbal timbre as well as DIN sync in/ out).

TR-606

I am looking for the following: Doepfer A196 PLL, A166 Logic, A117 Digi Noise, A188 BBD.

Also interested in Harvestman stuff, Plan B Model 28 and possibly others that I have not thought of yet!

Tony

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I wanted to add that I am located in the USA.

Tony

> To: doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> From: goldenechos@hotmail.com
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:42:57 -0400
> Subject: [Doepfer_a100] FT: Doepfer, Banalogue, Blacet
> 
> 
> Last try to get a trade for some of these:
> 
> Doepfer: A-156 quantizer, A145 LFO, 
> 
> Banalogue: WVX Serge Waveshaper
> 
> Blacet: Improbability Drive (modded for audio signal processing and quantizer control), Micro LFO, Dual VCA
> 
> Boss Dr-110 (modded for VC of snr and cymbal timbre as well as DIN sync in/ out).
> 
> TR-606
> 
> I am looking for the following: Doepfer A196 PLL, A166 Logic, A117 Digi Noise, A188 BBD.
> 
> Also interested in Harvestman stuff, Plan B Model 28 and possibly others that I have not thought of yet!
> 
> Tony
> 
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Email sent...

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Rolando <goldenechos@...>
wrote:
>
> 
> Last try to get a trade for some of these:
> 
> Doepfer: A-156 quantizer, A145 LFO, 
> 
> Banalogue: WVX Serge Waveshaper
> 
> Blacet: Improbability Drive (modded for audio signal processing and
quantizer control), Micro LFO, Dual VCA
> 
> Boss Dr-110 (modded for VC of snr and cymbal timbre as well as DIN
sync in/ out).
> 
> TR-606
> 
> I am looking for the following: Doepfer A196 PLL, A166 Logic, A117
Digi Noise, A188 BBD.
> 
> Also interested in Harvestman stuff, Plan B Model 28 and possibly
others that I have not thought of yet!
> 
> Tony
> 
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> Simply add a capacitor in parallel to C1 (1nF). 

Should be C3.