From sngruhl@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.deThu Mar 9 10:05:08 1995 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 18:40:33 +0100 (MET) From: "Stefan Gruhl (CIP 92)" To: analogue@hyperreal.com Subject: A visit to the Musikmesse in Frankfurt Today I had been at the Musikmesse (with Juergen Haible from AH BTW) What are the reasons you should continue to read? 1) Lots of new Doepfer gear 2) A personal impression about the North Lead 3) A new design of Roland stickers !!! 4) To begin with the thing of real interest. There has been the new Doepfer Modular. Here it is for you in ASCII text :-) The sample synth was built of 2 rows each 2 HE into a 19". It consisted of 2 VCOs, one 24dB Filter LP, 2 ADSR, 2 LFO one VCA, a module doing both ringmod and s.th. I forgot, there has been a signals mixer as well of course 4 to 1. Somewhere I detected a S/H. Ahhh, a Midi to CV/Gate :-) A frequency divider and a Waveshaper doing some clipping things. All patching is done by MINI plugs! So it is really small. To see disadvantages in this architecture is your turn. Now to tell you about the sound. Thats a hard part. I took half an hour to try finding a felling. Well, it's a modular. Can I really tell s.th.? The first patch trough the ringmod was pretty bad to me. I did the classic VCO,filter,VCA thing to get a better impression. The filter is - they said so - the Moog ladder one. It sounded all right with a low to mid resonance. But with maximized res it wasn' t what I would go for. Attention: Thats a first impression. The VCO seemed fine, as well as most other components. They didn' t seem like trining to go for the max. All inputs are quite restricted in the number and not all possible connections seem to be open to the programmer. They headed more into the consumer direction. their prices are LOW ! a VCO module is about 100$ , a filter 80$ and and ADSR 50$ I think. A complete starting set should be around 1000$. So long now, I have to leave ..... ..... ahh - the lorth lead ? ... It looks verry nice. Just this keybord and a Waldorf Wave might be what a girl will accept in her bedroom. Well colored, not really technical and a flair of noblesse. The sound? Ever heard an analog? I have, but I can' t really tell about this box. The sample patches seem to cover a big part of the analogues. I sometimes felt a lack of real analog flair. But that's perhaps because I was really looking for a drawback. The common consumers ear will never hear a difference. But who cares about the consumer? Aren' t we composers to get the max of fun of the boxes? Anyway, my SH101 won't loose it's worth, because this instument has it's own flair as any box. If I have tha cash I will give it another ear. CU steve -- * real electronic composers don't like their music be restricted * * to the physical limitations of the human hand - AH - a great list * * Stefan Gruhl * sngruhl@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de * From sngruhl@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.deThu Mar 9 13:37:30 1995 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 21:27:31 +0100 (MET) From: "Stefan Gruhl (CIP 92)" To: analogue@hyperreal.com Subject: More about the Musikmesse Back again I continue to get you some more data... > > Today I had been at the Musikmesse (with Juergen Haible from AH BTW) > > What are the reasons you should continue to read? > > 1) Lots of new Doepfer gear > > 2) A personal impression about the North Lead > > 3) A new design of Roland stickers !!! Well, I release (I know you will like this term) you and let you know the stickers lost their "we design the future" basic design but got colorful and mainstream pop style :-( Looks like they got jealous on Sony or TDK success. You just can't wear them with the proud of a spartanic monophonic mind! > > 4) > That's for lot of more I have seen and am unable to remember yet. > > To begin with the thing of real interest. There has been the new > Doepfer Modular. Here it is for you in ASCII text :-) > > The sample synth was built of 2 rows each 2 HE into a 19". > It consisted of 2 VCOs, > one 24dB Filter LP, > 2 ADSR, 2 LFO > one VCA, > a module doing both ringmod and s.th. I forgot, > there has been a signals mixer as well of course 4 to 1. > Somewhere I detected a S/H. Ahhh, a Midi to CV/Gate :-) > A frequency divider and a Waveshaper doing some clipping things. > > a VCO module is about 100$ , a filter 80$ and and ADSR 50$ I think. > A complete starting set should be around 1000$. > > Here I have got the data sheet: VCO: sawtooth, rectangle, triangle ,sine 2 freq. ins 3 oct. switch, tune control 2 PW ins Hardsync in 100$ VCF 24 dB LP 3 frq. ins ( 2 with attenuator) Freq. contol "emphasis" (they stressed: up to self osc.; I stress: A strange one!) 80$ VCA: both available a linear or a logarithmic one 2 CV ins (1 with att) manual gain control 2 audio ins (with att) 70$ ADSR: 2 gate ins 2 adrs outs 1 inverted out control with LED 60$ LFO: 3 ranges sub LFO (minutes) to audio sync in for start 5 waveforms, triangle, rectangel, sine, rising/falling sawtooth 3 3 LED for waveform display 50$ (I see: only 4 outs! no sine visible on the picture! Big plus: no switch but all 4 (or 5) waveforms on a seperate out ) BTW: Did you mention the constant drop of 10$ per module? I still miss the 90$ one. I guess that'll be the 400W PA module with integrated refrigerator for constant beer availability :-) Noise / Random : white, colored (blue and red level) random CV (rate and level) LED 50$ Mixer: 8 Bus with 4 FX routings and parametric EQ :-) in fact: 4 ins with attenuator to one out 2 LEDs with pos,neg display 50$ DIVIDER: freq. divider for audio signals rectangel outs (symetric) up to 4 oct below 50$ WAVE SHAPER: nonlinear Waveform processor for modification of incoming waveforms controls for clipping level/symetry 2 ins for clipping modulation with attenuators 50$ (I heard not the big change in sound. At least not in a pleasant way) Clock divider/sequencer clock and reset ins 6 outs frequency divided 8 sequential clock outs for use with sync timin signals 80$ RINGMOD / Voltage inverter 4 Quadrant Multiplier (2 ins one out) 2 CV inverters 50$ DUAL S/H LED control trig in sample in out 50$ each module is 3HE The Rack to hold the babies is about 250$ with power supply with two rows. They also apply the coomon CV/GATE signal to their power bus, to ease the use of standart routing. Thats possible without patching the original CV signal. Don't think of ordering before may! BTW: the project is called A100 if you are now to go and call Doepfer. CU steve PS: You may ask me anything about it, but thats all I know. -- * real electronic composers don't like their music be restricted * * to the physical limitations of the human hand - AH - a great list * * Stefan Gruhl * sngruhl@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de *