Have to agree on this. Much more pain than it's worth when compared with
all the good polysynths out there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: allanjhall [mailto: allanjhall@... ]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:23 PM
> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: 1 Re: A133, plus polyphonic a100 question
>
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> The only polyphonic midi/cv converter I know of is the PolyDAC
> http://www.modulus.synth.net/modular/polydac.shtml
>
> I've just built one in doepfer format (pix on modulus site) and it
> is four note polyphonic and works great, but my main use for it is
> in mono mode 2, where it can become four separate midi/cv converters
> on four separate midi channels.
>
> To build a modular polysynth is a fair undertaking, but to get 8 (or
> 12 ) vco's, 8 adsr's and 4 vca's and vcfs set up in unison is quite
> an undertaking and not for the faint hearted. Better to buy a JP8 or
> Memory Moog (or dare I even mention a VA synth such as Virus or ION)
> and keep the Doepfer modular for the monophonic stuff and all of the
> other things that modulars are unbeatable for.
>
> cheers,
> Allan
>
>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "Pierre Zeeman"
> <pierrezee@h...> wrote:
> > Hi Ingo
> >
> > >my favorite application for the a133 is waveform-conversion
> > >of vco's and lfo's. the a133 is the ticket, no matter if you
> > >need it to alter audio or cv voltages.
> >
> > Wow so much praise for a little module I must confess to having
> ignored thus
> > far. Hmmm, if I understand you correctly you are actually using
> the a133 to
> > change the shape of an audio waveform - would you be able to do
> > rectification style effects then
> >
> > Also, does anybody use their a100 polyphonically Presumably you
> have a
> > have a MIDI-CV controller that can take each note in a chord and
> send it out
> > of a different CV socket, each of which would have to be hardwired
> to an
> > oscillator. And the same for gate signals. Is this correct
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Pierre
> >
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