Finally! The Wave Multiplier is built.
2005-09-24 by Richard Brewster
Working my way through the queue of unfinished modules, today was Wave
Multiplier day! I had assembled the PC board over a year ago. The
Stooge panel arrived last fall sometime. We moved to a new house last
February and I have been getting my synthesizer area set up gradually.
Since moving I have completed four modules including the Dual Cynthia
Sawtooth Animators, a dual Oakley ADSR-VCA (of the last available Oakley
kits - a very nice module), my CGS Digital module, which includes a
Pulse Divider, Gated Comparator, Quad Logic Gate, and five CGS 56 boards
all behind a single 2U MOTM panel with 32 jacks, and now the Wave
Multiplier. The Digital Module was the most complicated physical
assembly so far, what with eight PC boards behind one panel. I promise
to provide photos at some point.
The Wave Multiplier was by comparison a piece of cake to build, the
hardest part being drilling the Stooge panel. I've just patched it up
and I'm getting some really rich textures from it. I found that the
Offset CV makes a great phaser-like tremolo with a sinewave LFO. The
pulse output retains the wave folding qualities with the pulse timbre.
I patched the folds and pulse outputs in parallel through the Oakley
ADSR-VCA modules and mixed them in stereo with slightly different
Left-Right mix and different envelopes. Wow. Very cool spatial effects.
I am very happy with the Wave Multiplier. It lives up to its
well-deserved reputation. Thanks, Ken! And what a simple circuit, too.
-Richard Brewster
Multiplier day! I had assembled the PC board over a year ago. The
Stooge panel arrived last fall sometime. We moved to a new house last
February and I have been getting my synthesizer area set up gradually.
Since moving I have completed four modules including the Dual Cynthia
Sawtooth Animators, a dual Oakley ADSR-VCA (of the last available Oakley
kits - a very nice module), my CGS Digital module, which includes a
Pulse Divider, Gated Comparator, Quad Logic Gate, and five CGS 56 boards
all behind a single 2U MOTM panel with 32 jacks, and now the Wave
Multiplier. The Digital Module was the most complicated physical
assembly so far, what with eight PC boards behind one panel. I promise
to provide photos at some point.
The Wave Multiplier was by comparison a piece of cake to build, the
hardest part being drilling the Stooge panel. I've just patched it up
and I'm getting some really rich textures from it. I found that the
Offset CV makes a great phaser-like tremolo with a sinewave LFO. The
pulse output retains the wave folding qualities with the pulse timbre.
I patched the folds and pulse outputs in parallel through the Oakley
ADSR-VCA modules and mixed them in stereo with slightly different
Left-Right mix and different envelopes. Wow. Very cool spatial effects.
I am very happy with the Wave Multiplier. It lives up to its
well-deserved reputation. Thanks, Ken! And what a simple circuit, too.
-Richard Brewster
