After picking up one of these cheap last year in S.F. for $350 , I
took a risk on one of these after reading some fascinating stuff by
Dan Slater who uses one with his Buchla system (which also uses
banana jacks , keeping cross patching simple).
Initially the vaguely familiar look of the front panel sockets
combined with the strictly electronic speek front panel legend &
unfamiliar "modularity" of the unit has become less obscure & I can
report back on some of the easily patchable worthwhile functions for
anyone with a Serge or banana jack modular.
Straight up are 2 ring modulators & 2 inverters .
then there are basically 6 op-amp type units ,with summing
junctions and some incorporating electronic switching enabling the
following .(not all are patchable simultaneously , but a certain
amount of mix 'n' match is possible -some functions include a ring
modulator or inverter as a sub module of itself....but in theory you
can have :
6 x attenuator
2 x sample & hold
2 x track & hold
4 x electronic switch
4 x 4 into 1 summer junctions
2 x 3 into 1 summer junctions
4 x integrator/slew generators
2 x voltage dividers
2 x multipliers
2 x squarer
2 x square root
4 x differentiators
2 x 3 input mixers or 3 x 2 input or 1 x 4 & 1 x 2 inputmixers.
plus more that I've yet to suss.....
So , as you can dee -it is quite a host of auxillary house-keeping
modules & voltage processors & routers . As $350 doesnt buy even the
ring mods on a Serge (and as you dont always need all the excellent
features of the Serge version) you can see that this unit can be a
very handy extender . The front plate looks similar proportions
heightwise to serge panels , but looks like 20" or so in width .
By the way . Does anyone have any experience of using the Serge
boolean module as a ring mopdulator . I understand that an XOR gate
could be used in this way ?
regards
Sonic
took a risk on one of these after reading some fascinating stuff by
Dan Slater who uses one with his Buchla system (which also uses
banana jacks , keeping cross patching simple).
Initially the vaguely familiar look of the front panel sockets
combined with the strictly electronic speek front panel legend &
unfamiliar "modularity" of the unit has become less obscure & I can
report back on some of the easily patchable worthwhile functions for
anyone with a Serge or banana jack modular.
Straight up are 2 ring modulators & 2 inverters .
then there are basically 6 op-amp type units ,with summing
junctions and some incorporating electronic switching enabling the
following .(not all are patchable simultaneously , but a certain
amount of mix 'n' match is possible -some functions include a ring
modulator or inverter as a sub module of itself....but in theory you
can have :
6 x attenuator
2 x sample & hold
2 x track & hold
4 x electronic switch
4 x 4 into 1 summer junctions
2 x 3 into 1 summer junctions
4 x integrator/slew generators
2 x voltage dividers
2 x multipliers
2 x squarer
2 x square root
4 x differentiators
2 x 3 input mixers or 3 x 2 input or 1 x 4 & 1 x 2 inputmixers.
plus more that I've yet to suss.....
So , as you can dee -it is quite a host of auxillary house-keeping
modules & voltage processors & routers . As $350 doesnt buy even the
ring mods on a Serge (and as you dont always need all the excellent
features of the Serge version) you can see that this unit can be a
very handy extender . The front plate looks similar proportions
heightwise to serge panels , but looks like 20" or so in width .
By the way . Does anyone have any experience of using the Serge
boolean module as a ring mopdulator . I understand that an XOR gate
could be used in this way ?
regards
Sonic