Analogue systems

You're a Cal Arts Grad? Yo - I'm having dinner with Barry Schrader tomorrow
night !

If I was stuck on a desert island and could only have one - I'd take the
Blacet.
But it's real real close.  The AS is a fine oscillator.  I prefer the
separate FM inputs and the log/exp selection for that input on the Blacet
model.  Also, the Blacet has the all-important fine tune pot on board and
yeah, the triangle to square waveshaping is great.  It sounds like the Serge
Waveshaper to a certain degree.

Both are very stable.  The sine outs are a little more pure on the AH, but
both have a touch of the third harmonic caused by smoothing a triangle wave.
The AH sine waveshaping is interesting.  goes form sine to something very
close to a ramp form the sine output and their ramp out goes between that
and triangle.  So even though the Blacet has the triangle to square
waveshaping via VC or pot, I think AH has him beat here

All of John's VC input's do a lot - full range, and quite useful.  However,
I like the way AH comes with a scaled VC input as well, not just two 1v/oct
inputs without scaling.  I have since added full +/- processing to one of
the two VC inputs to all my Blacets and I like that a lot better.

John's osc's have a huge range - they go slower than both my Analog Systems,
CEM, MOTM and Doepfer LFO's and up to about 14,000 cycles!

But alas, I had the fortune of playing around with a Buchla VCO last weekend
- first time since Cal Arts and neither the Blacet or AH do what these do
timbrally.  That wonderful FM input - God, nobody has that down like Buchla
did.  Don's osc don't track - never will, they are as stable as any other
osc designed in the 70's, which is nothing like what they are capable of
doing now, but that sound!  Ultra pure sines, great waveshaping.

Hope this helps!

P








shm1400wrote:

Hi.  This is my first post to this group, since I am just putting
together my system.  Can anybody tell me what they think about the
RS95 oscilators v. others, such as the the Blacet oscilators?  I
would like to hear (read) Peter Grenaders opinion, since I noticed he
has 4 Blacets and one RS 95 in his system, and like you Peter, the
good ol' Buchla in B303 is the system I remember most fondly ('83
grad) I particularly liked the Buchla's VC timbre modulation, going
from sine to sawtooth or square. The RS 95 looks like it could do
something similar with the VC sawtooth wave, going from triangle to
sawtooth.  Anybody used this feature?  How does it sound?  Can you
post an mp3?  Any disadvantages over other oscilators? (Right now I
only have Doepfer A110 oscilators, which are not very useful for my
purposes)  Anybody who can give me any opinions, please let me know.
Thanks.





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