MOTM

Hey guys.  I'm mostly a lurker and have just sent off a check for my 
first sytem to Paul (woohoo!!!).  Anyway I know you all love to 
brainstorm so here is an idea I was kicking around earlier...

I was playing with my evolver earlier tonight (very cool mono synth 
from Dave Smith).  It has 4 LFO's which can be sync'd up to the 
sequencer, and the seq can be sync'd to MIDI clock.  Which ends up 
giving you 4 midi controled LFO's.  My music sometimes contains a 
lot of Polyrhythmic blips, sweeps etc (3's over 4's, 9's over 5's 
you get the idea).  The cool thing with the evovler is you can setup 
one LFO to vary Resonance, one to sweep the filter, one for tremelo, 
the last for osc sync sweeps.  Give them their own subdivision of 
the main tempo and they all groove together.

I think I read somewhere that Paul was going to make available an 
Update to the MIDI-CV converter (or maybe it was the Seq) that would 
allow MIDI clocked LFO's.  If this doesn't come to pass what about 
another 600 series module that would do just that.  4 or 6 LFO's 
with a switch for each to control shape and another switch or knob 
to adjust the division of the incoming midi signal: whole note, 1/2, 
1/4, 1/4T (quarter note triplet) etc.  

This seems like a neat module to me.  Whaddaya ya'll think?

John

Hey guys.  I'm mostly a lurker and have just sent off a check for my 
first sytem to Paul (woohoo!!!).  Anyway I know you all love to 
brainstorm so here is an idea I was kicking around earlier...

I was playing with my evolver earlier tonight (very cool mono synth 
from Dave Smith).  It has 4 LFO's which can be sync'd up to the 
sequencer, and the seq can be sync'd to MIDI clock.  Which ends up 
giving you 4 midi controled LFO's.  My music sometimes contains a 
lot of Polyrhythmic blips, sweeps etc (3's over 4's, 9's over 5's 
you get the idea).  The cool thing with the evovler is you can setup 
one LFO to vary Resonance, one to sweep the filter, one for tremelo, 
the last for osc sync sweeps.  Give them their own subdivision of 
the main tempo and they all groove together.

I think I read somewhere that Paul was going to make available an 
Update to the MIDI-CV converter (or maybe it was the Seq) that would 
allow MIDI clocked LFO's.  If this doesn't come to pass what about 
another 600 series module that would do just that.  4 or 6 LFO's 
with a switch for each to control shape and another switch or knob 
to adjust the division of the incoming midi signal: whole note, 1/2, 
1/4, 1/4T (quarter note triplet) etc.  

This seems like a neat module to me.  Whaddaya ya'll think?

John

The 4 MIDI-syncd'd LFOs will be an *optional, additional charge* upgrade. But not much (under
$50), and more features as well. This is keep the introductory price <$500.

Paul S.

Sounds cool. Paul's midi/cv will have software syncable lfos, but you 
can also play around with hardware ones. If you have some way of 
getting hardware clock out of midi (for instance, the Expressionist 
can output din sync pulses), then you can use these to sync an MOTM-
320 lfo.

Moe 

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I think I read somewhere that Paul was going to make available an 
Update to the MIDI-CV converter (or maybe it was the Seq) that would 
allow MIDI clocked LFO's. If this doesn't come to pass what about 
another 600 series module that would do just that. 4 or 6 LFO's 
with a switch for each to control shape and another switch or knob 
to adjust the division of the incoming midi signal: whole note, 1/2, 
1/4, 1/4T (quarter note triplet) etc. 

This seems like a neat module to me. Whaddaya ya'll think?

Very cool.  Thanks for the info Paul.

John

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@a...> wrote:
> The 4 MIDI-syncd'd LFOs will be an *optional, additional charge* 
upgrade. But not much (under
> $50), and more features as well. This is keep the introductory 
price <$500.
> 
> Paul S.

Hmmm this is something I might want to look into.  Sounds fun for 
sure.

John


--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb <mate_stubb@y...>" 
<mate_stubb@y...> wrote:
> Sounds cool. Paul's midi/cv will have software syncable lfos, but 
you 
> can also play around with hardware ones. If you have some way of 
> getting hardware clock out of midi (for instance, the 
Expressionist 
> can output din sync pulses), then you can use these to sync an 
MOTM-

> 320 lfo.
> 
> Moe 
>

There are numerous gizmos that can extract a hardware clock from MIDI.

While the 320 does have a sync input which is very useful, it's not 
the same as being able to sync the rate to an incoming clock -- the 
sync input merely resets the waveform.

You can produce an LFO synced to a clock if you divide it down and 
then shape it with a lag processor.  This works if the divider 
produces a square wave or preserves the duty cycle of its input. 
However you have to re-adjust the lag processor if the speed of the 
clock changes.

Other than that, it's impossible to sync an LFO to a clock using 
analogue.  I saw a mock-up of the VC pulse divider that had a "ramp" 
output, and I suggested to Encore that they include a clock input for 
the digital oscillators in the frequency shifter.

The ability to produce LFO's synced to MIDI clock is a very nice 
feature for a MIDI-->CV converter, but I would like to see a module 
that can produce dedicated waveforms synchronized to a hardware clock.