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Re: [PLAN_B_analog_blog] Model 15 VCO: it rocks

2005-05-03 by Ingo Zobel

hello gino,

your description sounds so delicious.
it is so hard to wait for these gems.

if only i could get some information
about the status of my order...
peter ??  i tried to reach you via
email, but no response. i guess your
inbox is still drowning in spam.

best wishes

ingo



--- ginorobair <GRobair@primediabusiness.com> schrieb:
> Hey gang,
> I received and fired up my VCO today (the frac'd one), and it is a 
> great sounding module. I took a line out of each waveform jack (I 
> have two jacks for each wave) to make sure the connections 
> were good, moving from the square wave (bottom) to the sine 
> wave (top). By the time I got to the sine, I was sold -- I didn't
> even 
> have any CVs plugged in yet, and I was loving the sound. 
> 
> The sine wave seems much mellower on the Plan B VCO than 
> on my Blacet. I'm not making a value judgement -- just pointing 
> out that I could easily hear a difference, which is great 
> considering I have 2-VCO instrument and want as much variety 
> as possible. I don't have a scope to view the waveforms, so I'll 
> leave that to someone else who wants to make comparisons.
> 
> The other sound that totally knocked me out was sweeping the 
> Wave Morph input with my Blacet LFO, while sending VCs to the 
> other inputs. I recorded a few moments with this sort of patch, 
> and I'll post them in the next day or two. I kept the patch to a 
> minimum -- no filter or EG for much of the session, for example 
> -- just to show what this thing can do with only two or three VCs 
> coming in. In fact, I totally forgot to use a filter, because I was
> so 
> distracted by the sounds I was getting straight out the the 
> module.
> 
> I know, I know, many of you will say "It's all in the filter, son."
> But 
> I'm one of those guys that thinks that the osc has just as much to 
> do with the overall sound of a synth (at least in my small amount 
> of experience with Buchla, Serge, Blacet, etc). Every little nook 
> and cranny on a waveform gives a filer (and other processors) 
> something to hang on to and exploit. Having a mellow sine will 
> hopefully allow me to get some of those delicious, woody Buchla 
> 258 kinds of sounds (the Lowpass Gate should help). However, 
> the other waveforms on the Plan B sound wonderful.
> 
> Okay, enough of this limoncello-soaked prattle. Is this VCO worth 
> the money and the wait? Absolutely!
> ginorobair
> 
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