Thanks, Florian and Kevin, for the discussion. I've been "getting my
feet wet" with a MAM VF11 vocoder, and your advice to use compression
made a dramatic improvement for me.

Next A100 cabinet will definitely have a vocoder susbsystem.

Joe

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander
<Florian.Anwander@c...> wrote:

>
> > > That said, there's no reason at all to include the A176 and

mixer

> > > if all one wants is compression.
> I understood you.
>
> Very nice is to combine the compressor with an Expander controlled

by the

> same Signal and to feed the both VCAs with a frequency split signal
>
> ExtIn CV-out -> Slewlimiter -> Multiple --> Inv -> VCA---Mix---> Out
> ^ \--> VCA--- ^ ---/
> | ^ |
> | | |
> Audio-------Multimode Filter Hipass---------/ |
> Lopass---------------/
>
>
> Florian