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Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-27 by Alan

Hi folks, I'm new to modular synthesis and this is my first post to this group so please forgive my naivety. I recently purchased a second-hand, half filled A-100 G6. I though, at the price I paid, that it would be a good way of breaking into an area that has tempted me for years. The system came with a couple of Oscillator, a phase modular, a mixer, an envelope generator, a midi to CV converter and a A-111-5 mini synthesizer (Dark energy equivalent). This left plenty of space for expansion and so far I've added a ring modulator and a VCA.

So far, so good. I've been using synths since the early '80's and I  understand the general principals of what a lot of this system can do. However, I feel the A-115, Audio Divider, that came with it hasn't really shown me it's true worth yet. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how best employ this module in relation to the rest of this set-up. Don't get me wrong, I have read it's manual and I understand what it's doing, but it just doesn't seem to have made a worthwhile impression on me yet.

Re: [Doepfer_a100] Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-28 by David Núñez

Hi Alan,

It's great that you have posted this question, because I too have the same impression. I do use it in an obvious kind of way, but ther's surely many cool alternatives & creative patches. 

I'll be looking forward to reading the group's replies. 

Best regards,
David

El 28/01/2011, a las 00:23, "Alan" <alan@wanlockhead.demon.co.uk> escribió:

> Hi folks, I'm new to modular synthesis and this is my first post to this group so please forgive my naivety. I recently purchased a second-hand, half filled A-100 G6. I though, at the price I paid, that it would be a good way of breaking into an area that has tempted me for years. The system came with a couple of Oscillator, a phase modular, a mixer, an envelope generator, a midi to CV converter and a A-111-5 mini synthesizer (Dark energy equivalent). This left plenty of space for expansion and so far I've added a ring modulator and a VCA.
> 
> So far, so good. I've been using synths since the early '80's and I understand the general principals of what a lot of this system can do. However, I feel the A-115, Audio Divider, that came with it hasn't really shown me it's true worth yet. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how best employ this module in relation to the rest of this set-up. Don't get me wrong, I have read it's manual and I understand what it's doing, but it just doesn't seem to have made a worthwhile impression on me yet.
> 
> 


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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-28 by Shrewsbury Marie

I've tended to use a A160 clock divider for sub osc sounds as i have that but 
not the A-115 and it can be clocked a fair way into the audio range.

probably that works the other way too, some of the serious electronics heads 
here might know differently, but probably you can use the A-155 to divide 
control voltages like lfo output as well.

for audio range applications that don;t involve just mixing down the sub 
frequencies with the osc output, you could experiment with using the output(s) 
of the A-115 to mod the filter cutoff level, as a sync source for the other 
audio oscs, so you can sweep the sync in one or more octaves without needing 
another audio osc, or running it into the ring mod?





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From: Alan <alan@wanlockhead.demon.co.uk>
To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 11:23:07 PM
Subject: [Doepfer_a100] Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

Hi folks, I'm new to modular synthesis and this is my first post to this group 
so please forgive my naivety. I recently purchased a second-hand, half filled 
A-100 G6. I though, at the price I paid, that it would be a good way of breaking 
into an area that has tempted me for years. The system came with a couple of 
Oscillator, a phase modular, a mixer, an envelope generator, a midi to CV 
converter and a A-111-5 mini synthesizer (Dark energy equivalent). This left 
plenty of space for expansion and so far I've added a ring modulator and a VCA.

So far, so good. I've been using synths since the early '80's and I  understand 
the general principals of what a lot of this system can do. However, I feel the 
A-115, Audio Divider, that came with it hasn't really shown me it's true worth 
yet. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how best employ this 
module in relation to the rest of this set-up. Don't get me wrong, I have read 
it's manual and I understand what it's doing, but it just doesn't seem to have 
made a worthwhile impression on me yet.

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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-28 by Florian Anwander

Hello Alan

you should look for some examples from the Roland SH3a. This might be a 
suggestion.

Florian

Re: Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-28 by Josef

Patch example:

http://www.modular-planet.de/instruments/stringshit/stringshit.html


--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Alan" <alan@...> wrote:

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> Hi folks, I'm new to modular synthesis and this is my first post to this group so please forgive my naivety. I recently purchased a second-hand, half filled A-100 G6. I though, at the price I paid, that it would be a good way of breaking into an area that has tempted me for years. The system came with a couple of Oscillator, a phase modular, a mixer, an envelope generator, a midi to CV converter and a A-111-5 mini synthesizer (Dark energy equivalent). This left plenty of space for expansion and so far I've added a ring modulator and a VCA.
> 
> So far, so good. I've been using synths since the early '80's and I  understand the general principals of what a lot of this system can do. However, I feel the A-115, Audio Divider, that came with it hasn't really shown me it's true worth yet. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how best employ this module in relation to the rest of this set-up. Don't get me wrong, I have read it's manual and I understand what it's doing, but it just doesn't seem to have made a worthwhile impression on me yet.
>

Re: Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-28 by Alan

Hey, thanks folks for such an enthusiastic response. These have all given me a few more ideas of how best to employ the A-115.

I particularly like the name of your patch Josef! I don't know how well it translates, but when 'strings' is closely followed by 'hit' it has a certain lavatorial humour to it;-)

Cheers,
Alan

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Josef" <joffes@...> wrote:

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> Patch example:
> 
> http://www.modular-planet.de/instruments/stringshit/stringshit.html
> 
> 
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Alan" <alan@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks, I'm new to modular synthesis and this is my first post to this group so please forgive my naivety. I recently purchased a second-hand, half filled A-100 G6. I though, at the price I paid, that it would be a good way of breaking into an area that has tempted me for years. The system came with a couple of Oscillator, a phase modular, a mixer, an envelope generator, a midi to CV converter and a A-111-5 mini synthesizer (Dark energy equivalent). This left plenty of space for expansion and so far I've added a ring modulator and a VCA.
> > 
> > So far, so good. I've been using synths since the early '80's and I  understand the general principals of what a lot of this system can do. However, I feel the A-115, Audio Divider, that came with it hasn't really shown me it's true worth yet. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how best employ this module in relation to the rest of this set-up. Don't get me wrong, I have read it's manual and I understand what it's doing, but it just doesn't seem to have made a worthwhile impression on me yet.
> >
>

Re: Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-28 by Alan

Thanks for the suggestion Florian. Do you think you could send me an SH3a so I can put it to the test? ;-)

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Florian Anwander <fanwander@...> wrote:

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> Hello Alan
> 
> you should look for some examples from the Roland SH3a. This might be a 
> suggestion.
> 
> Florian
>

Re: Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-29 by Josef

In this sense 'Stringshit0065.mp3' sounds humorously ;-)

An alternative is the A-113:
http://www.modular-planet.de/synthlead/shanghai/shanghai.html

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Alan" <alan@...> wrote:

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> Hey, thanks folks for such an enthusiastic response. These have all given me a few more ideas of how best to employ the A-115.
> 
> I particularly like the name of your patch Josef! I don't know how well it translates, but when 'strings' is closely followed by 'hit' it has a certain lavatorial humour to it;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan
> 
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Josef" <joffes@> wrote:
> >
> > Patch example:
> > 
> > http://www.modular-planet.de/instruments/stringshit/stringshit.html
> > 
> > 
> > --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Alan" <alan@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi folks, I'm new to modular synthesis and this is my first post to this group so please forgive my naivety. I recently purchased a second-hand, half filled A-100 G6. I though, at the price I paid, that it would be a good way of breaking into an area that has tempted me for years. The system came with a couple of Oscillator, a phase modular, a mixer, an envelope generator, a midi to CV converter and a A-111-5 mini synthesizer (Dark energy equivalent). This left plenty of space for expansion and so far I've added a ring modulator and a VCA.
> > > 
> > > So far, so good. I've been using synths since the early '80's and I  understand the general principals of what a lot of this system can do. However, I feel the A-115, Audio Divider, that came with it hasn't really shown me it's true worth yet. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how best employ this module in relation to the rest of this set-up. Don't get me wrong, I have read it's manual and I understand what it's doing, but it just doesn't seem to have made a worthwhile impression on me yet.
> > >
> >
>

Re: Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-29 by Jonathan Heslop

I have heard that if you turn all the knobs to 0 you can invert the origonal signal?!? Sold mine so I can't test it.

I quite liked using mine towards the end of the signal path, after the filters. The F/16 output can always do some weird stuff if you use it to modulate filters/OSC's etc.

Jonathan



--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Alan" <alan@...> wrote:

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> Hi folks, I'm new to modular synthesis and this is my first post to this group so please forgive my naivety. I recently purchased a second-hand, half filled A-100 G6. I though, at the price I paid, that it would be a good way of breaking into an area that has tempted me for years. The system came with a couple of Oscillator, a phase modular, a mixer, an envelope generator, a midi to CV converter and a A-111-5 mini synthesizer (Dark energy equivalent). This left plenty of space for expansion and so far I've added a ring modulator and a VCA.
> 
> So far, so good. I've been using synths since the early '80's and I  understand the general principals of what a lot of this system can do. However, I feel the A-115, Audio Divider, that came with it hasn't really shown me it's true worth yet. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to how best employ this module in relation to the rest of this set-up. Don't get me wrong, I have read it's manual and I understand what it's doing, but it just doesn't seem to have made a worthwhile impression on me yet.
>

Re: [Doepfer_a100] Re: Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-01-31 by Florian Anwander

Hi Alan

unfortunatley my SH3a is parts and pieces at the moment: not in a 
shippable state definitely  ;-)

Nevertheless these my give some ideas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuqWtlKZCYY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4I5Tgxs8E

Also the way Roland made string sounds in the RS09 might be interesting.

They had four octaves of rectangle like the A115, mixed them in a relation:
16"1,
8" 1/2
4" 1/3
2" 1/4
then they filtered this in a highpass. This highpass output provides a 
pseudo-saw as base for the typical Roland string sound.


Florian

Alan schrieb:
> Thanks for the suggestion Florian. Do you think you could send me an SH3a so I can put it to the test? ;-)

Re: Advice on the usefulness of an A-115 Audio Divider?

2011-02-01 by Alan

Thanks again Florian. I'll have a look at these videos.
By the way, do you know if this form of synthesis is in any way related to how the, much maligned, Korg Poly 800 generates its tones?

It too uses the 16, 8, 4, 2 footages of square waves, which can be combined to evince a basic form of wave shaping. Alternatively, the same footages of close approximation of a saw wave can be used.

Cheers,
Alan

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Florian Anwander <fanwander@...> wrote:

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> Hi Alan
> 
> unfortunatley my SH3a is parts and pieces at the moment: not in a 
> shippable state definitely  ;-)
> 
> Nevertheless these my give some ideas:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuqWtlKZCYY
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4I5Tgxs8E
> 
> Also the way Roland made string sounds in the RS09 might be interesting.
> 
> They had four octaves of rectangle like the A115, mixed them in a relation:
> 16"1,
> 8" 1/2
> 4" 1/3
> 2" 1/4
> then they filtered this in a highpass. This highpass output provides a 
> pseudo-saw as base for the typical Roland string sound.
> 
> 
> Florian
> 
> Alan schrieb:
> > Thanks for the suggestion Florian. Do you think you could send me an SH3a so I can put it to the test? ;-)
>