SergeModular

hi,

thanks for the idea...

i thought of getting an animal instead of a blue voice, but it would
mean:
not having a ring modulator in the system (very important to me),
only two oscillators instead of three,
and i've looked long and hard at the description of the smooth/
stepped generator, but i can't figure out what i would use it for...

any comments on uses for the ssg would be great...i've never used a
sample and hold, but i think i know what it does (you feed it any cv,
and when the hold input receives a trigger/gate the output is
"frozen" at the current cv input level? so that one can have, for
example, discrete random values generated at specific time intervals)

thanks!

alex

On May 2, 2006, at 7:06 PM, simulacreant wrote:

> Hi, Welcome!
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> Maybe get an Animal instead of a Blue Voice...
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> --- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "beschaving@..." <beschaving@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> hello everyone,
>>
>> so i finally gave in to my desires and started to seriously think
>> about buying a few serge panels.
>>
>> partly because of comments on this list, i'd like to try to get most
>> of my wishes fulfilled by a small selection of shop panels, mostly
>> because they should offer a kind of fool-proof ideal configuration
>> for new users like myself, and also because they should be relatively
>> easy to sell again should that be necessary.
>> on the one hand i think the only way to put together my ideal system
>> would be to hand-pick and combine modules myself, but it feels safer
>> to go with shop panels. i could try to get four panels, where the
>> last one would be a selection of the things i'm missing with three
>> shop panels.
>>
>> a few general remarks about my ideas and uses for a serge:
>> predictably, i want a few oscillators, both kinds, as well as one or
>> more filters and vca and panning functions.
>> i want the system to be heavy on the processing modules. i play
>> experimental/improvised music doing a lot of processing of external
>> sounds and with a big emphasis on sound sculpting and noise making
>> rather than traditional synth or keyboard "voices" or rhythms.
>> i want cv sources, of course, but would be more likely to go with
>> relatively few modules and i would lean towards having a small number
>> of multipurpose cv sources rather than many of them with specific
>> uses. one reason is that i do a lot of manual control, and that i
>> tend towards "spontaneous", manually triggered events rather than
>> complex pre-programmed cv shapes. this is why i'm thinking of the tkb
>> manual controller rather than having many lfo/ar/adsr modules and
>> related cv processors.
>>
>> the system should be small enough to be carried onto a plane! is
>> there any way to do this with four panels? how about a suitcase with
>> two panels in each lid, with the control panels almost touching each
>> other when the case is closed?
>>
>>
>> my idea for a three panel setup now comes down to this:
>>
>> -blue voice
>> i know i want several oscillators, the ring mod, and the standard
>> vcf.
>> i'm not all that familiar with the wave multiplier but it's been
>> consistently praised by others, and it's unique to the serge.
>> it has a mixer, we all need mixers.
>> the module on this panel that i would be least likely to hand-pick
>> myself is the uap. i want true stereo panning (like on the dcsm), and
>> cross-fading and dual vca functions can be gotten from the smaller
>> dedicated modules, with the benefit of both being available
>> simultaneously (in other words, i'd probably get a crossfader and a
>> dual vca rather then a uap, if it were up to me).
>>
>> -soup kitchen
>> i do a lot of external processing, so a preamp detector is a must.
>> a frequency shifter would be great, but does the soup kitchen also
>> offer the version with external carrier?
>> the c/m is only there to fill up panel space behind which the frs is
>> located, and i'd prefer the c/m over an adapter module, because it
>> "does" more.
>> i'm extremely curious about the wad (not the most flattering
>> abbreviation). i'd love to hear comments about this module.
>> another mixer, ok.
>> of the two main filter types aside from the standard vcf the variable
>> slope one appeals to me most, and it would be great to have at least
>> two (different) filters.
>> i love the serge eq, i'd definitely get one of those.
>> phasing, i'm not so sure. what are the uses of this aside from the
>> familiar whooshing phasing sound we know from guitar fx boxes?
>> the dcsm, definitely. i want true stereo panning.
>>
>> -tkb
>> although i can't seem y self ever playing melodies on a serge, or any
>> other synth, i'd like to have sophisticated manual control over the
>> synth, and a kind of "push button" access to sounds or modulations to
>> my sounds. sequencing...i'm not so sure, i've never used a sequencer
>> in my life
>>
>>
>> the trouble i run into:
>> no noise/random module! i must have a noise and random module...so
>> this would have to be on a fourth panel, but i'd kind of like to
>> stick with three, both because of cost and portability.
>> no dsg's! this seems like the most universal, flexible and not-to-be-
>> missed cv module in the system, and the line-up described above has
>> none and also nothing similar to it, so missing out on a dsg
>> altogether would be problematic.
>> i guess a cv 2 panel would solve these issues nicely, but i'm
>> thinking that would be a little over-the-top in the cv department for
>> my way of working. i'd probably rather add a few more audio modules
>> instead in case i'd really get a fourth panel.
>>
>>
>> any comment on these ideas would be immensely appreciated! i'm just
>> sort of thinking aloud here, so don't be shy to correct me. sorry for
>> the rambling post.
>>
>> thanks very much
>>
>> alex
>>
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