Modular Synth Panels

You know, I had never looked at what took place behind the panel before.
My first reaction is "Holy shit!"
There's a lot going on there!

The CGS Gated Comparator is on the short list, w/ a lot of other CGS 
stuff, for this summer.
I can tell you that the CGS Comparator is one of my favorite modules. 
It's like an 8-stage Shift Register, with a gate for each stage, and 
the outputs summed together. You get great note sequences out of it, 
and depending on the threshold setting, it will start a new sequence at 
step 1 while the others are going, and all those outputs will chase 
each other and sum, so you get fantastic "infinite melodies", really. 
Then you can turn steps 5-8 off, for different sequences. And of 
course, the gates are there to trigger whatever you like. It's also 
fascinating to just watch as the LEDs play, because they're not random 
but the pattern is decided by the interplay between the comparator 
input and the clock. I always fed it a triangle LFO while clocking it 
from a separate LFO so that it wouldn't, though if you used the same 
one maybe the sequence would repeat.
Another trick was clocking it at audio rate and using the inverted 
output as FM on my VCO, which made it sound like it was going through a 
nasty bit-crusher when you cranked the FM attenuator. Basically, the 
inverted staircase wave keeps tugging the VCO down into subaudio. A 
bit-crusher doesn't quite do it justice, because it's analog.

Of course, my Comparator stopped working -- a mistake of mine, because 
it worked if I wiggled it right : )
If I get it fixed, I'll do a recording.

Cheers,
Scott Deyo
The Bridechamber
contact@...
http://www.bridechamber.com
Jealous Edison Record Kompany
http://www.jealousedison.com


On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:01 PM, adaaxs wrote:

> Which bracket should I use to do the least drilling on my TLN 864 ?
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>  Also I am having trouble geting the ADG419 chip. Can I use a DG403 ?
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>  How does this diifer the CGS Comparator ? Is there a CGS panel in the 
> works.
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