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2005-10-12 by brownchonald
2005-10-13 by bbluthang
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> What are my options for the outputs and inputs on the CGS VCO?
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> I'm wanting to order two PCBs. But am not sure what to make the
> panel look like.Hello Cole
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> Will anyone help me out?
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> Cole
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2005-10-13 by Gerald Stevens
On 10/12/05, brownchonald <chonald@...> wrote:
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> What are my options for the outputs and inputs on the CGS VCO?
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> I'm wanting to order two PCBs. But am not sure what to make the front
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> Will anyone help me out?
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2005-10-13 by Richard Brewster
>Cole,
> The outputs and inputs are listed in the PCB connections table on the VCO
>webpage. I'm about to start drilling out a panel for the board, which I
>stuffed last weekend. What I want to know is, why two FM inputs (DC and AC)?
>What does a D/C component do to FM, offset the pitch? Can someone give me an
>example of the use of a D/C coupled FM input?
> thanks,
> -gerald
> On 10/12/05, brownchonald <chonald@...> wrote:
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>>What are my options for the outputs and inputs on the CGS VCO?
>>
>>I'm wanting to order two PCBs. But am not sure what to make the front
>>panel look like.
>>
>>Will anyone help me out?
>>
>>Cole
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2005-10-14 by brownchonald
--- In cgs_synth@yahoogroups.com, Richard Brewster <pugix@e...> wrote:
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> Look carefully and you will see two different frequency modulation
> inputs. CV1, CV2, TUNE, and the 1V/oct inputs are the exponential
> inputs. These are the normal ones you use to make the VCO follow a
> keyboard, etc. These are DC coupled (no capacitor). It is the LINEAR
> FM inputs that have the AC and DC on them. Linear FM typically uses
the
> AC coupling capacitor to avoid weird offsets. You usually put an audio
> frequency signal here for special modulation effects. If you have
> limited panel space you may want to use only the AC coupled linear FM
> input. My CGS VCO has a 1V/Oct FM input, plus a general FM input jack
> with attenuator. I have two switches following that: one to route to
> the exponential vs the linear input, and one for AC/DC that just shorts
> the capacitor for DC coupling.
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> If building this VCO you should compare the ASM-1 VCO, which is
> similar. Do a web search an you find lot of information and schematics
> for the ASM-1.
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> -Richard Brewster
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> Gerald Stevens wrote:
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> >Cole,
> > The outputs and inputs are listed in the PCB connections table on
the VCO
> >webpage. I'm about to start drilling out a panel for the board, which I
> >stuffed last weekend. What I want to know is, why two FM inputs (DC
and AC)?
> >What does a D/C component do to FM, offset the pitch? Can someone
give me an
> >example of the use of a D/C coupled FM input?
> > thanks,
> > -gerald
> > On 10/12/05, brownchonald <chonald@g...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>What are my options for the outputs and inputs on the CGS VCO?
> >>
> >>I'm wanting to order two PCBs. But am not sure what to make the front
> >>panel look like.
> >>
> >>Will anyone help me out?
> >>
> >>Cole
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2005-10-20 by Richard Brewster
2005-10-20 by David Hylander
>We are looking for sources of the CA3140 chip. Mouser doesn't have[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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2005-10-20 by bbluthang
>hi
> We are looking for sources of the CA3140 chip. Mouser doesn't have
> them, nor Digikey. Any ideas?
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> Thanks,
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> -Richard Brewster
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2005-10-20 by David Hylander
>We are looking for sources of the CA3140 chip. Mouser doesn't have[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>them, nor Digikey. Any ideas?
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2005-10-22 by xamboldt
2005-10-23 by Richard Brewster
>Hello Everyone,
>
>Has anyone with an Analog Shift Register used a mixer to send feedback from
>one of the taps back to the input? Strangely enough, I had a dream about
>this (yes my subconscious has even fallen to obsessing about this stuff!),
>and I'm wondering if it would be a worthwhile feature to build in to the ASR
>I'll be building eventually...
>
>Seems like it could be used as sort of a very short granular delay...
>
>-Chris
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2005-10-23 by xamboldt
On 10/22/05 9:30 PM, "Richard Brewster" <pugix@...> wrote:
> The ASR is a CV processor, not a signal processor. I haven't tried
> clocking it at audio rates. Obviously the clock would come through very
> strongly in the output. Feedback is a useful principle in general
> though. If you mixed one of the outputs together with the input CV it
> would impart a cyclical memory, like mixing back part of a sample and
> hold output with its input. I've always used the ASR to shift CVs that
> control the frequency of VCOs, so I can have one quantized CV control
> three VCOs in an arabesque. Mixing back would wreck the quantization,
> but I am going to try this out.
>
> -Richard Brewster
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> xamboldt wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Has anyone with an Analog Shift Register used a mixer to send feedback from
>> one of the taps back to the input? Strangely enough, I had a dream about
>> this (yes my subconscious has even fallen to obsessing about this stuff!),
>> and I'm wondering if it would be a worthwhile feature to build in to the ASR
>> I'll be building eventually...
>>
>> Seems like it could be used as sort of a very short granular delay...
>>
>> -Chris
>>
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2005-10-23 by sasami@hotkey.net.au
>Yeah, it's not designed for processing audio, but it does handle bipolar_______________________________________________________________________
>signals, right? I imagine it would sound very nasty processing audio,
>dividing it into narrow slices (grains) - although to have an output
>resembling audio it would have to be clocked very quickly, so it might just
>end up sounding like a square wave tremolo or even a ring modulator. I'm not
>even sure what feedback would do in that situation.
>
>I guess the logical conclusion of where my brain was headed on this, if it's
>used to control CVs, would be a Wiard Noise Ring.
>
>Nevertheless, I'm very interested to see what your experimentation
>produces...
>
>-Chris
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>On 10/22/05 9:30 PM, "Richard Brewster" <pugix@...> wrote:
>
>> The ASR is a CV processor, not a signal processor. I haven't tried
>> clocking it at audio rates. Obviously the clock would come through very
>> strongly in the output. Feedback is a useful principle in general
>> though. If you mixed one of the outputs together with the input CV it
>> would impart a cyclical memory, like mixing back part of a sample and
>> hold output with its input. I've always used the ASR to shift CVs that
>> control the frequency of VCOs, so I can have one quantized CV control
>> three VCOs in an arabesque. Mixing back would wreck the quantization,
>> but I am going to try this out.
>>
>> -Richard Brewster
>>
>> xamboldt wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> Has anyone with an Analog Shift Register used a mixer to send feedback from
>>> one of the taps back to the input? Strangely enough, I had a dream about
>>> this (yes my subconscious has even fallen to obsessing about this stuff!),
>>> and I'm wondering if it would be a worthwhile feature to build in to the ASR
>>> I'll be building eventually...
>>>
>>> Seems like it could be used as sort of a very short granular delay...
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>>
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2005-10-24 by xamboldt
On 10/23/05 4:15 AM, "sasami@..." <sasami@...> wrote:
> I think you would find that the S&H caps would prevent this. You would get
> some sort of signal through, but way reduced, as these caps take quite a
> while to charge up. You could reduce the caps I guess, but that would make
> it worthless as an ASR. Yes it is bipolar.
>
> Ken
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