Dotcomformat

Since you plan on putting together a 3 voice .com rig anyway the 
questions are:

A) Would 3 note chords satisfy you?

B) Would not having any patch memory be OK for your pad machine?

Even VERY minimally set up you could do pads with a poly MIDI 
interface, 3 VCOs, VCF, VCA, EG by just using one of the 3 gates from 
the MIDI DAC. Only  on CV for keyboard tracking, but with single hand 
chording that would generally not be too far off for any of the notes.

Since you are building a 3 voice system anyway then the hurdle for 
real 3 note pads becomes filters. I could see having 2 Q107s and a 
Q150 in a system, but 3 Q107s is pushing it. Still, if the pads you 
could get from that would suffice given the limitations then you also 
get all the lack of limitations from being a real modular.

(From what I read of the Mankato I could maybe see having 3 of them 
in a system and it being more or less your 'main' filter. Of course 
until I get enough pennies saved up to get one for real...)

--- In dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com, "phineousbonemachine" 
<berticus_sledge@...> wrote:
>
> --- In dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com, Scott Deyo <contact@> wrote:
> >
> > As far as modulars, I wouldn't do it for _pads_. There are a 
million 
> > old and new synths that will do it a lot less painfully and less 
> > expensively. 
> 
> exactally....thus me question. I want a modern poly analog synth. 
Pads 
> being its primary job, but not limited to.
>