passive circuit modules!
2009-10-29 by Monroe Eskew
Would you be interested in a 4HP module with one attenuator and one slew, for 30 USD? After having been very pleased with a DIY project, I want to see if I can spread the happiness. I would like to gauge interest and sales potential for the following: A module consisting of two independent circuits, drawing 0 mA from your system. The circuits to choose from are: 1) Attenuator. One level knob. 2) Simple RC filter (lowpass). One frequency/period knob. 3) Simple highpass filter, ditto. My favorite idea is to combine 1 and 2. The filter can be used to shape audio signals, but it will not sound as good as a powered LPF like the RS100. The main idea is to make the range of the cutoff frequency very low so that it acts as a slew module or an ASR envelope. This actually works very well. You can get a soft attack and a very natural, acoustic sounding release, straight from your Gate signal (or a rectangle wave). I doubt there would be much interest in circuit 3. But let me know what combinations you would want, i.e. 1&2, 1&1, 2&2, 2&3, etc. I could put these into a nice, printed 4HP panel and sell them for probably around $30 a piece. Any takers? Monroe