Dual Trigger Delay and MOTM-800 mods
2003-08-21 by djbrow54
I just built a dual trigger delay. I had previously uploaded the front panel design to the DJB folder. It works great and provides a 5 mS output trigger which is delayed 100mS to 10 seconds from the input trigger. One of the side affects I had found earlier on the MOTM-800 is that with a valid gate and no trigger it starts the decay-sustain cycle. My ARP keyboard has a 15 mS delay for the trigger conditioning circuit and this was enough on certain settings to 'pre-charge' the circuit so the attack was abreviated since it was starting from the sustain level. I ended up modifying the Arp keyboard. However, this also happens with the trigger delay so I came up with a pretty simple mod for the MOTM-800 to hold off the circuit to wait for a trigger input to begin the attack phase from 0 volts. This eliminates the mode of providing a sustain level output with no trigger or gate so I added a toggle switch located between the release and sustain knob to switch between 'normal' and 'wait for trigger' mode. Works great. Let me know if anyone is interested and I can post photos and describe the circuit. Dave