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kobresia
Joined: Jul 14, 2005 Posts: 10 Location: Norway
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:08 am Post subject:
LFO, AR-gen, filter questions |
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So I finally finished stage one of my SoundLab, basic unit fed by +/-12V mains power (works fine). Still to do - finish front panel, oscillator cross modulation (isn't this technically FM?), ring mod, 8 step sequencer + various small mods. By the way 2N3819 JFETs (in place of MPF102s) for oscs also works fine, but pinning is different.
I've also built an extra LFO, but I don't have a 2uF capacitor (C13) at hand, the one to be mounted behind the panel. I used a 1uF for the first one, which seems to work fine, frequencies get more than low enough for low range (at least 5 minutes peak-to-peak).
So my questions are:
What would a lower value capacitor C13 do for the frequency range? You'd get a higher minimum frequency for low range right?
Why is AR and especially LFO mod depth not-so-deep for filter, pulse width, VCA? How would I go about increasing it? This means AR can't actually sweep the filter all the way (but fairly near), and LFO just sort of wobbles it a bit (but sweeps oscs several octaves).
Why is there an added "floor" voltage for both LFO and AR-Gen mod? When I switch LFO mod for filter on, cutoff increases quite a lot. When I switch AR mod for filter on, cutoff increases slightly.
Filter really squeals heavily on highest resonance, is this something you all get too? It's kind of nasty, but kind of cool too, so not really a big problem. |
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etaoin

Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 761 Location: Utrecht, NL
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:44 am Post subject:
Re: LFO, AR-gen, filter questions |
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| Quote: | | I've also built an extra LFO, but I don't have a 2uF capacitor (C13) at hand, the one to be mounted behind the panel. I used a 1uF for the first one, which seems to work fine, frequencies get more than low enough for low range (at least 5 minutes peak-to-peak). |
Just might just want to go with two 1uF in parallel. I couldn't find 2uF either.
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Why is there an added "floor" voltage for both LFO and AR-Gen mod?
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For the LFO, that's probably because connection 3 of R92 is connected to -9V, so the LFO doesn't add an offset to the VCO's but it pulls down the CV even if the LFO level is all the way down. I have changed this by connecting R92 to ground instead to get an LFO that makes more sense (at least to me). |
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kobresia
Joined: Jul 14, 2005 Posts: 10 Location: Norway
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:42 am Post subject:
Re: LFO, AR-gen, filter questions |
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| Etaoin wrote: | | For the LFO, that's probably because connection 3 of R92 is connected to -9V, so the LFO doesn't add an offset to the VCO's but it pulls down the CV even if the LFO level is all the way down. I have changed this by connecting R92 to ground instead to get an LFO that makes more sense (at least to me). |
Thanks for that Etaoin! It makes much more sense to me this way too. |
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Pehr

Joined: Aug 14, 2005 Posts: 1307 Location: Björkvik, Sweden
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