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Re: [PolySix] RE: Polysix tuning difficulties.

2014-03-02 by Bob Grieb

Hi,

   I have uploaded a redrawn schem of the Poly6 antilog circuit.   I hope this will help
anyone who is working in this area.   If we learn more about how to adjust
the trimmers, I will add it to the schematic.   The 17.5 mV/oct value was lifted from 
a clear copy of the older key assigner schem.  It finally hit me that IC30 is for detuning the voices in Unison mode.  Duh!  Not sure why I didn't think of that before.

Bob




________________________________
 From: Malte Rogacki <gacki@gacki.sax.de>
To: PolySix@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2014 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [PolySix] RE: Polysix tuning difficulties.
 


  
And finally:

I've tuned the Polysix (so far just preliminary). There still is some small
room for improvement but except for the lowest 16' octave I have a pitch
deviation  better than the one shown in the service manual. Some notes have
a 1 to 2 cent deviation but most are spot on. The lowest notes in the
lowest octave have currently a deviation of about 7 cent.

I had to use VR15 a lot though which means that probably the basic offset
was not so good. The whole antilog circuit calibration could probably be
shifted a bit upwards and then compensated for again with VR15. This could
possibly bring VR2 away from its end position.

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