Elektor Formant Modular

Hi hans,

This seems an impressive setup with 4 vco's and 4 vca's.

WE WANT PICS !!!

Old pots: have you tried blowing the dust out with compressed air ?

greetings

anthony









--- In ElektorFormant@yahoogroups.com, "Hans Holema" <h.holema@w...> 
wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to the group and never expected for such a group to 
> exist anyway!...
> I just took my old Formant out of the 'mothballs', cleaned the 
> spiderwebs off and connected it to my midi-setup using the old 
> Roland MPU-101 interface that I have...
> 
> ..and voila... it still works!!!!! I built it with a friend of mine 
in 1979 
> and it still works!!!!!!!
> 
> And I must say that the warm analog sounds can't be beaten - 
> neither can the possibilities of just plugging whatever module's 
> output into whatever input.....  no-one who has made a preset for 
> you... DIY in any way...
> 
> My formant has
> 4 VCO's
> 4 ADSR's
> 2 VCF's 12dB
> 2 VCF's 24dB
> 2 RFM's
> 2 LFO's 
> 2 VCA's
> 1 COM
> 1 Noise
> 1 RingModulator
> 1 Staircase generator (own design)
> 1 Frequency counter built-in for tuning
> 
> Only thing is that the pots and switches might crack or don't 
> really works as they should
> Anyone of you guys know of a way to clean them properly without 
> using ContactSpray, 'cause that can do more damage after a 
> while.....
> 
> cheers
> Hans