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Tim Servo
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Boogdish
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 8:04 am Post subject:
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Awesome! The circuit's so small you could build two behind a single panel and have series wave burping. |
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Tim Servo
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 1:45 pm Post subject:
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A couple of notes on the Wave Burper schematic:
1. The vaules in the schematic are for +/-12V operation. For +/-15V, you might want to increase R5 a bit to keep the output at +/-5V. I think I used 75K, but you can experiment to see what works for you.
2. The zener limiters on the output (D1, D2) aren't absolutely necessary, but I found that with some VCFs in front of the WB (especially the Oberheim SEM in Band Pass mode) could produce occasional peaks that went WAY beyond +/-5V. I put the zeners in there to tame those, and I also like the smooth clipping they give when the signal level jumps up.
I hadn't really thought about two Burpers in series... could be fun.
Tim (Burpety Burp) Servo |
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frijitz
Joined: May 04, 2007 Posts: 1734 Location: NM USA
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 4:07 am Post subject:
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Wonderful circuit! Huge bang-for-the-buck.
Bet it would be fun to drive it from a waveform whose amplitude dynamically changes polarity (like a Saw --> -Saw cross fade).
Another idea: drive it by a Saw through a VCA with audio freq modulation. This would have to be a huge extension of timbres from ordinary audio frequency AM. Show us some bells!
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Tim Servo
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 11:34 am Post subject:
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Hey Ian,
Thanks for the compliment! You've definitely given me some food for thought there. One thing I was looking at is using another op amp section to make an attenuverter and mix the original (varying levels of inverted or non-inverted) input back with the Burped output. However, feeding the WB with a VCA capable of phase reversal might be spectacular. So... I guess I'm looking for a voltage controlled attenuverter. Anybody got a schematic? Actually, I'm surprised something like this doesn't exist (and maybe I just haven't looked hard enough yet).
Okay, so I'm going back to my synth room to see what I can cook up.
Tim (bells? Oh, good. I though you said balls) Servo |
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Tim Servo
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 11:39 am Post subject:
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(or I could just try a ring mod / 4-quadrant multiplier)
Tim (Give me a break, I haven't had my coffee yet this morning) Servo |
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magneticstripper
Joined: Jan 12, 2009 Posts: 25 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 3:44 pm Post subject:
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Super cool Tim!
i built it with 5.1v zeners and 68k for R5. Looks like it is still in the +-5v range. i used a 1.2k between R1 and the Ground, pretty solid square on the waveform start. Once again, Great unit Tim! Thanks! |
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frijitz
Joined: May 04, 2007 Posts: 1734 Location: NM USA
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 5:17 pm Post subject:
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Tim Servo wrote: | However, feeding the WB with a VCA capable of phase reversal might be spectacular. So... I guess I'm looking for a voltage controlled attenuverter. Anybody got a schematic? |
It's a fairly standard circuit. Basically, you use two OTAs controlled by a CV and its inverse. I used one here:
http://home.comcast.net/~ijfritz/sy_cir5.htm
(A5-A8, U1, U2)
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Tim Servo
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frijitz
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 2:10 pm Post subject:
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Tim Servo wrote: | How about this for a VCA circuit that would fade between non-inverted and inverted versions of an input? |
That looks fine. If you use an OTA where you have "VCA" labeled, then A2 and R6 are not needed! Just feed the OTA (-) input from an appropriate voltage divider. Then design the OTA control current to proved twice the maximum output current as the current through R5, ie 0.1mA max. Finally, drive A3's summing node directly from the OTA output!
This illustrates how it is often advantageous to think of the summing node of an inverting opamp summer as a current summing node, ie, total input current is zero. Then the currents can come from OTA outputs directly as well as from input voltage through input resistors.
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bubzy
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:33 pm Post subject:
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are you sure those zeners are 1n4374 and not 1n4734? _________________ _Richard_ |
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Tim Servo
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 12:17 pm Post subject:
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D'oh!! Yes, that's supposed to a 1N4734A, 5.6V Zener. This is the 1 Watt version, which is way more power than this diode should ever see, so you could also use the 1/2W version if that's what is available. As noted by Magneticstripper, the 5.1V version seems to work okay too. It probably just begins to clip at a slightly lower level.
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Tim Servo
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 12:36 pm Post subject:
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frijitz wrote: | Tim Servo wrote: | How about this for a VCA circuit that would fade between non-inverted and inverted versions of an input? |
That looks fine. If you use an OTA where you have "VCA" labeled, then A2 and R6 are not needed! Just feed the OTA (-) input from an appropriate voltage divider. Then design the OTA control current to proved twice the maximum output current as the current through R5, ie 0.1mA max. Finally, drive A3's summing node directly from the OTA output!
This illustrates how it is often advantageous to think of the summing node of an inverting opamp summer as a current summing node, ie, total input current is zero. Then the currents can come from OTA outputs directly as well as from input voltage through input resistors.
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Wow, I definitely would not have thought of that. Nice! Okay, so you could throw this together with a 3080 or half of a 13700 and simplfy the circuit further. I may have to give that a shot this weekend. Thanks for the tip, Ian.
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richardc64
Joined: Jun 01, 2006 Posts: 679 Location: NYC
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 2:04 pm Post subject:
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Ahem...this signal cancellation process looks awfully familiar to me.
Would it be possible to eliminate A2 by using the OTA's inverting input? _________________ Revenge is a dish best served with a fork... to the eye Last edited by richardc64 on Wed May 29, 2013 3:48 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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frijitz
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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 3:40 pm Post subject:
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richardc64 wrote: | Ahem... |
And ahem to you too!
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