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My JAG-Story!

I had my JAG now for about 7 month, but didn't realize what kind of 
superb module it is.
I played around with my JAG the last month and big love began to 
grow. I had an idea coming from my old Yamaha CS-30
The CS-30 only has 1 LFO and one Sequencer, but its very lively. The 
reason of many of great CS-30 Patches is, that a single LFO modulates 
EVERYTHING. The JAG could bring this idea much further:  One 
Joystick, mixed with LFO's and other CV's modulates Everything in two 
dimensions. A Plan began to grow in my head... its not very fancy or 
weird or new, but extremley useful... I tried this patch on my Wiard-
300 (I have 4 VCA's in my Classiv/Waveform-City-VCO's, so this was 
easy.

With one JAG, a Joystick, two modulation-mixers(in my case Blacet 
Mixer-Processors), 2 LFO's 2 Envelopes into that, 10 Outputs of the 
JAG modulate 10 CV's. The JAG controls a Vector-Engine as Vector-
Synthesis is very easy to control, as I am not a fan, if the JAG 
controls the Pitch-CV. 2 VCO's/Mini-Wave/Frequency-Divider and one 
half of the superb Cynthia Saw Animator ar going into 4VCAs), 
everything is run by 2 VCO's. The output of the 4 VCA's are going 
into a Mixer, then 2 parallel/serial Filters and two vca's. That is 
also kind of CS-30 alike (2Filters/2VCA's).

I tried it with my Wiard/Blacet-Rack: It sounds incredible. The JAG
brings the modules to life: With the Joystick you tell the main 
Direction, every millimeter changes the whole character, so I work 
with a stereo-delay behind everything. The two modulations-mixers 
(one JAG) a bringing incredible movement into everything
>>(Filters, VCA's, ..), subtle or gigantic. What I like the most is 
that it is a extremely fast way to program new sounds, and they are 
still vanilla enough to be useful. Of course the Vector-VCA's are 8, 
6,4,2. The rest (Cutoffs, Speed of LFO's, one controlling the first 
output-VCA, balance/Pan of the two parallel filters...) will be 
controlled of the other JAG-Outputs. At the moment, I am testing 
which one to which output is best. The Egde and the Dome-Outputs of 
the JAG are perfect for some CV's. It can get pretty wild in a Vector-
Patch, if the Edge-Out controls the Q of the main filters, but I 
haven't decided yet which output controls what in the end (or if I 
build in switches)

I loved those sounds so much, that I am building a half-
modular/Vector-JAG Synth with exactly such a patch now into one big 
frame/Frontpanel for my bedroom-Laptop-Studio. My Bedroom-Studio has 
just the space for one Modular/one FX and the Laptop. I'll have to 
buy most of the modules behind that FP, so at the moment, I am 
checking out everything on the market :-). The JAG will be the heart 
and will sit untouched in the middle of everything. AS I would never 
rip apart my Wiard 300 System, I will buy or use my Blacet Modules 
and some Oakleys. I maybe use some Doepfer-Modules (behind the panel) 
to save some money: Especially the Doepfer CV-Mixer will replace four 
VCA's and a mixer for the Vector-Engine.
At the moment, I am buying lots of kits or finished Modules for that. 
As soon as I have everything, I'll be drawing the Panel (I did this 
before with my Wiard-upside-down modules).

I'll post some MP3's, as soon as my Computer is working again, if 
anybody is interested.

Olivier