PLAN B analog blog

On 25 Apr 2008, at 01:03, gabu_004 wrote:

> Your new VCO seems to be really indeed giving us a new approach on 
> timbre manipulation
>  and soundcreation...

Agreed.

I must admit, the very first moment I saw the model 30 announcement, I 
had something like: nice, but not spectacular. After all, don't I 
prefer analogue oscillators? And FM, haven't we seen that enough 
already? Yet the more information sneaks in, the more my mind is 
changing...

By the way, thank you very much, Peter, for taking the time to give all 
these thorough explanations.

Still one thing is unclear to me. How exactly do the select buttons 
function?

Thanks again,

Tomas

(anxiously---but patiently---awaiting sound samples.)

(PS. Please excuse me for my yestereve's ramblings. It was late night 
already here in Brussels (as it is now, in fact). I misunderstood 
Peter's sentence

>  the VCAs come after the processing

thinking that he meant that the VCAs merely serve a final mixing 
purpose and are not involved in the FM/RM/FS process itself. This would 
have been crazy, of course, since this would mean that, in the 
FM-modes, the modulation indexes are fixed.

I must admit that I liked the idea of an FM-synth (ok, ok, the model 30 
is much more than that:-) that is unable to perform even the most 
simple standard FM patches, because the indexes are fixed. There's 
something jolly blasphemous about this, which I like. And stíll I do 
suspect the model 30 to be capable of a lot of interesting sounds with 
such "fixed index FM", thanks to it's waveform 
morphing/synchronization/... possibibilies. But I must agree, having 
also VC of the indexes is still that little bit móre interesting :-)

Heck, all this talk about the FM modes...and saying that I'm 
particularly intrigued by the RM and FS modes!)