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Re: Patch sheet

2005-06-10 by rreprobate

I think that it would be appropriate for this project to have 2 diagrams for patches: both a 
"schematic" and a "motm implementation" -- kind of like a schemo + layout.

The schematics could be generalized, and of interest to non-motm-ers as well. This part 
helps you understand how the signal flow works. Then, the motm diagram would show a 
specific patch on a motm system.

Potentially, one or the other diagram could be trivial, and not included. But it makes sense if 
this patch book is going to be instructional, and not a simple cookbook.

I have been doing these many-oscillator FM patches with lots of feedback paths that once 
patched are incomprehensible. Seeing a diagram of one of these patches would just make my 
brain go into shut-down. If you illustrate mults, that further obfuscates the signal flow.  But 
the schematic version gives a very clear image of the feedback networks and how it affects 
the timbre.

So I think both are essential.

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