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Re: VCO's

2004-12-19 by James R. Coplin

Except that the plan b has a very limited range. I like the Blacet VCO's a
bunch.

James R. Coplin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: don hassler [mailto:dlh30039@...]
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 6:21 PM
> To: SergeModular@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [SergeModular] VCO's
>
>
> Plan B Model 15!
> http://www.buzzclick-music.com/model_15.html
> Don Hassler
> USA
> --- lars_arnwald <lars.arnwald@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Back in the early 80's I had a Serge panel
> > consisting of NTO, PCO,
> > VCFX, DSG, plus some VCA, can't remember the model
> > today. This was
> > played by a Lyricon Wind Driver, I did very little
> > tweaking and it
> > usually produced some fluegelhorn/subdued alto sax
> > sound. I used it
> > entirely for live situations together with tenor
> > sax, and clarinet in
> > a Bay Area band named "Young, White and Gifted".
> > Though the sound was
> > good I was not at ease with the Lyricon, it produced
> > lots of glitches
> > with the finger movements. The Lyricon was lost in a
> > burglary, and
> > after a few years I sold the Serge panel, something
> > I came to regret
> > dearly later. After a couple of years Serge put
> > together another,
> > rather limited system with PRNV, UAP, EQ, VCFX, that
> > I intended to
> > process external sounds with.
> >
> > Having listened to recordings of my original setup
> > with the YW&G I
> > realize it had a very nice and warm sound although
> > unusual. Despite
> > the Lyricon problems it had "acoustic" qualities,
> > and just listening
> > to it makes it hard to distingush it from an
> > acoustic instrument. Now
> > in possesion of much better wind drivers I want to
> > recreate some of
> > that old feeling with my existing tiny system. I
> > need oscillators
> > (1xNTO, 1xPCO, and something like the DSG), but the
> > times when you
> > could get individual modules seem to be gone. Again,
> > since I want to
> > use this stuff on stage I neither can nor want to
> > spend 3-4K$ on a
> > new one.
> >
> > Is there somebody who can give me recommendations
> > about other VCO's,
> > MOTM, Doepfer, perhaps. I also have digital ones
> > within my Clavia
> > Nord Micro Modular, and the Yamaha PLG150-AN card.
> > If somebody have
> > experiences from these I would be interested to hear
> > comparisons with
> > analog ones.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lars Arnwald, Stockholm, Sweden
> > lars.arnwald@...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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