Elektron Musical Instruments

At 10:57 PM 10/5/2002 -0400, R. Cliff Young wrote:
>On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, sidstationownsyou wrote:
>
> > That's what I thought. I own a Machinedrum, but not a Sidstation, so I 
> doubt I
> > can help.
>
>Heh heh, from your email address, I'd have guessed you own a
>Sidstation. :)

Heh!  I would've thought the same as well.  ;)

Me, I'm just the opposite -- Sidstation but no MD.

>I have a Sidstation, but not with me.  However, I am confused as to the,
>er, confusion--the manual on the website makes it plainly clear that the
>Flat waveform "is a non-oscillating flat LFO, which output is always set
>to a steady maximum.  This is useful as a base for external MIDI control
>messages."
>
>I guess the original question is what it was good for--I guess if you want
>an external MIDI control governing the depth of the LFO precisely, without
>oscillation at all... the question actually was is if anyone out there HAS
>used the Flat LFO, and for what reasons and how they've used it.

Well, I'm redoing my studio from scratch again and my Sid is also 
unavailable, so this is theory rather than practical experience.  In other 
words, YMMV, all standard disclaimers apply, please do not park in the 
yellow zone, yaddayaddayadda.

If the description is true-to-form, this should be a very kewl function. 
Assuming I'm reading it correctly, you should be able to link a MIDI 
control directly to the LFO and therefore control the modulating waveform 
directly via continuous controller.  If that's the case, all you'd have to 
do open your sequencer and draw whatever LFO shape you'd like in as CC 
data, which would control the LFO interactively.  Draw a sine wave across 
three notes then end in a random squiggle and go for a slow ramp for the 
next measure, for instance...

That's the way I've interpreted the manual anyway.  Let's see if anyone is 
actually in a position to test it and tell us for certain.

         -c-

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