I have been trying to grok the Divide by N for quite some time but still don't think I have it down. It seems to be a really quirky and very useful module...if I just understood it better. Here is some of what I noticed it can do...
CV PULSE MOD - Put in a sine wave at either of the bottom two blue jacks, set the -/+ at around 12 o clock to find the sweet spot and feed a slow smooth CV / LFO into the other blue jack. Take the output of the middle red jack as an audio out (but it's RED?) and you have a nice CV controlled pulse mod. If you don't put a CV into one of the inputs you can get a pretty nice variable pulse wave and use the +/- knob to set the duty cycle (useful for those that only have PCO's)
Speed up the LFO to audio range and you get some really strange ringmod/heterodyne timbres. Tres' cool. Noticed the changing the audio input to Tri or Saw does not affect the basic sound too much: still a pulse wave. You may need to attenuate the CV signal and tweak the +/- knob to find the 50% Square and limit the swing of the pulse mod so it does not go past 0 or 100%.
AUDIO FREQ DIVIDER: With the same patch (with or without the pulse mod CV), take the top red jack as the audio out. Set the Osc freq pretty high and turn the top 1-31 knob. You get a stepped odd scale of discreet descending pitches as you turn the knob clockwise. I noticed that there is a fairly significant volume "thip" as you divide the pitch down that sounds as bit like a quick saw-like transient. However, turning the knob counter clockwise and going north with the pitch you get an INVERTED saw like 'thip" - the opposite of going down. Putting any kind of slow smooth or stepped CV into the middle VC in make the pitch jump based on the type/shape of the CV. A sample and hold like, stepped signal gives this aleatoric jumping pitch scale and a smooth random signal swings the pitches in a, well smooth way through the division. It usually helps to use some attenuation on the CV IN to control the max deviation as all the way down the audio cuts out.
There is also a really noticeable timber change that comes from the top jack audio...very much like a thin pulse wave no matter what the input (sine, saw, tri). It is also kind of "dirty" sounding and at high mod speeds you also get some sideband like timbres though not as clean as the ones from the pulse mod.
VC PULSE DIVIDER: Like the audio freq divider you can send in a stream of triggers and use the VC divide (knob for manual, cv in for modulated) to define how many input pulses it needs to "see" before it outputs a pulse from the top red OUT jack. I think this is always some odd as opposed to even number in regards to the division between 1 and 31.
COMPARATOR/PULSE EXTRACTOR (+ PULSE DIVIDE): Plug two different random CV signals into the two bottom blue jacks. Take the output from the lower red jack and use it as a clock for a seq or envelope. There is some formula for when a trigger pulse will be generated (when the +in is greater than the - in and if the tide is high of the second full moon of the third month...or something like that). Anyone know the REAL story of how this works please provide clarity!
You can take the top red Out and use that to trigger some other function and again, either manually control/divide how many input pulses need to occur before an output pulse is generated depending on the setting of the upper knob and the CV signal going in the blue VC IN jack.
Ok, so that is what "I" know about this module but I also know there must be more! Would be nice to know what other uses people have found and maybe we can create a thread for this module like the one on the SSG that is now posted on the Serge-Fans site. I can't tell what the red STEP OUT jack does - it seems to not only provide a divided signal out (in the audio range) that is less "thin" (though still pulse sounding) , but it also seems to have a volume change associated with each step; volume getting softer the higher the pitch.
So I for one am all ears for other uses or others applications. Thanks!
CV PULSE MOD - Put in a sine wave at either of the bottom two blue jacks, set the -/+ at around 12 o clock to find the sweet spot and feed a slow smooth CV / LFO into the other blue jack. Take the output of the middle red jack as an audio out (but it's RED?) and you have a nice CV controlled pulse mod. If you don't put a CV into one of the inputs you can get a pretty nice variable pulse wave and use the +/- knob to set the duty cycle (useful for those that only have PCO's)
Speed up the LFO to audio range and you get some really strange ringmod/heterodyne timbres. Tres' cool. Noticed the changing the audio input to Tri or Saw does not affect the basic sound too much: still a pulse wave. You may need to attenuate the CV signal and tweak the +/- knob to find the 50% Square and limit the swing of the pulse mod so it does not go past 0 or 100%.
AUDIO FREQ DIVIDER: With the same patch (with or without the pulse mod CV), take the top red jack as the audio out. Set the Osc freq pretty high and turn the top 1-31 knob. You get a stepped odd scale of discreet descending pitches as you turn the knob clockwise. I noticed that there is a fairly significant volume "thip" as you divide the pitch down that sounds as bit like a quick saw-like transient. However, turning the knob counter clockwise and going north with the pitch you get an INVERTED saw like 'thip" - the opposite of going down. Putting any kind of slow smooth or stepped CV into the middle VC in make the pitch jump based on the type/shape of the CV. A sample and hold like, stepped signal gives this aleatoric jumping pitch scale and a smooth random signal swings the pitches in a, well smooth way through the division. It usually helps to use some attenuation on the CV IN to control the max deviation as all the way down the audio cuts out.
There is also a really noticeable timber change that comes from the top jack audio...very much like a thin pulse wave no matter what the input (sine, saw, tri). It is also kind of "dirty" sounding and at high mod speeds you also get some sideband like timbres though not as clean as the ones from the pulse mod.
VC PULSE DIVIDER: Like the audio freq divider you can send in a stream of triggers and use the VC divide (knob for manual, cv in for modulated) to define how many input pulses it needs to "see" before it outputs a pulse from the top red OUT jack. I think this is always some odd as opposed to even number in regards to the division between 1 and 31.
COMPARATOR/PULSE EXTRACTOR (+ PULSE DIVIDE): Plug two different random CV signals into the two bottom blue jacks. Take the output from the lower red jack and use it as a clock for a seq or envelope. There is some formula for when a trigger pulse will be generated (when the +in is greater than the - in and if the tide is high of the second full moon of the third month...or something like that). Anyone know the REAL story of how this works please provide clarity!
You can take the top red Out and use that to trigger some other function and again, either manually control/divide how many input pulses need to occur before an output pulse is generated depending on the setting of the upper knob and the CV signal going in the blue VC IN jack.
Ok, so that is what "I" know about this module but I also know there must be more! Would be nice to know what other uses people have found and maybe we can create a thread for this module like the one on the SSG that is now posted on the Serge-Fans site. I can't tell what the red STEP OUT jack does - it seems to not only provide a divided signal out (in the audio range) that is less "thin" (though still pulse sounding) , but it also seems to have a volume change associated with each step; volume getting softer the higher the pitch.
So I for one am all ears for other uses or others applications. Thanks!