MOTM

What does a comparator do in a modular patch? Practical uses? Please help as 
I am planning to build a "Potpourri" module with a comparator in it and I am 
curious of it benefits and techniques required to use it. Thanks for your 
help,

Thomas White

PS. I highly recommend having a CV keyboard of some sort to trigger your 
MOTM without having to turn the MIDI converters on. Its rather liberating to 
play from my Roland M-181 and be able to use the pitch bend and analog 
portamento vs the Kenton I have used before (Still use for arrangements). 
Very smooth actions


>From: Thomas Hudson <thudson@...>
>Reply-To: motm@egroups.com
>To: motm@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [motm] Non standard module uses
>Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:11:10 -0700
>
>
>I have a "pet" patch that I have always used to test the flexibility
>of all the virtual software modular synths. Believe it or not,
>most of the ones I've played with are incapable of producing
>this patch, for lack of comparitor or logic modules (or restrictions
>on control vs. audio). It is based on Craig Andertons Pulse
>Width Multiplier. There is an input for a triangle wave and three
>LFO's. The triangle is fed to one input of four comparators.
>Comparator 1 is fixed to produce a square wave from the
>triangle, the other three take each LFO as their other input. The
>outputs of comparators one and two are exclusive-or'd together,
>this output is x-or'd with comparator three, and this output
>x-or'd with comparator four.
>
>Patches like this are why I wish we had math and comparator
>modules for MOTM.
>
>Tomy
>
>

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