PLAN B analog blog

TIm,

Not broken...just matched.

here's the thing...vactrols are slow, there's no way around that.  
You can hate it, or embrace it and I chose the second option.  But 
to get the best transfer form one waveshape to another, I match 
the two vactrol ion each board so that their decay's are close to 
kill dead spots.  What i can't do however is select them within a 
range. and depending on the range of a given set, the sweet 
spot may be a little smaller than others.  At $4 a pop, if I were to 
say I can only use vactrols on the VCO xfade which have, say, a 
2.3 ms decay time, my yield would go down appreciably.  Am I 
being cheap?  No!  Practical.  My feeling is the main function of 
the knob is to set the offset to the VC and for this it works 
excellently.  

I have compensated for the sweet spot by making the sine a bit 
louder form this output than the main sine out.  This way the 
harmonics don't grab your ears quite so quickly.

Tim - if you would like a larger range I would be happy to try out 
others for you - please don't hesitate to contact me for a warranty 
(read: no charge) replacement on this.  I want my customers 
happy! 

And foremost, thanks for the kind words on the VCO.  I've got to 
tell you - it's this kind of thing that keeps it all worth while for me.  
You have no idea what a kick I get out of these types of 
messages.  Totally appreciated, thanks again.

- P
peter@ear-group.com

















--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "Tim J" 
<bob_aloha@...> wrote:
>
> I recently bought a model 15 vco... first off it sounds incredible.  
It 
> really is 'obese' as advertised.
> 
> I was curious how everyone's morph section sounds.  On my 
module, manually 
> morphing between waves seems to take place only between 
the 11 and 12 
> o'clock tick marks.  Heck, maybe even less range.  I was 
thinking maybe I 
> got a bad vactrol?
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
>