Elektor Formant Modular group photo

Yahoo Groups archive

Elektor Formant Modular

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:59 UTC

Message

New formant user and builder

2005-04-07 by stecki2

Hi,
i´m Wolfgang and i´m just building, or should i say repairing an old
formant (elektor book). i have some problems, cause the earlier owner 
who has build the synth, hasn´t done it very well, and i must search a 
lot of errors. maybe you could hepl me a bit.
I have two questions at the moment. The keyboard, which was also in the 
elektor book, has a output voltage (KOV) around 4V, when there is no 
key pressed, is that normal ? I can adjust the voltage when the lowest 
key is pressed, to O Volt. But after releasing this key, i goes up to 
4V. When the keyboard is not connected to the modules, the VCO led 
(which also show´s the PW) lights.. Should it light ?? ..cause i have 
a low frequency output at the VCO out, even when i switch to ECV, and 
nothing is connected .. Is that normal or an error ? I can´t find 
anything in the book about that. Thanks for any help appreciated. The 
rest so far works, except the 24dB filter, but i will do that later. 
First i try to manage the VCO.

Sorry for my bad english...

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.