i was getting jealous of the great sounds Wieter gets out of his MS-10.
so i went over the hurdle and bought me an MS-20, hah!
the thing sounds fucking unbelievable..
got it relatively cheap, compared to today's prices - because it had mods done to it (aka extra holes in the top), and i also got a small refund because the Ring Mod wasn't working.
insert new 4011, and voila: full working order!
some genius had decided to bring out all OSC1 waveforms, to make the output patchable.
great idea, if you drill the holes on the Right Hand Side over by the bay, dumbass.
played around with it for a while, and started thinking about what i would like to add, featurewise (hey, it already has holes in it.)
VCO1:
- i'm keeping the tri/saw/square outs.
- do away with the noise (that's on the patchbay anyway)
- and i'll be adding PWM instead.
VCO2:
- i'll go with three jacks: saw, square/pulse and ring mod out.
square and pulse are on the same point.
the ring mod uses the PW wave of osc1 against the square wave of osc2, but if you switch to saw or pulse on osc2, it gets fed the pulse wave instead of the square. so bringing out the ring mod would offer even slightly more tonal options.
- thinking of a Sync switch, using VCO2 as slave.
VCA:
- already added a VCA floor on a pot.
this is basically a hardwired implementation of the 'initial gain' patch, just leaves both the mod wheel and the initial gain jack free for extra modulation.
- putting EG2 on a switch, so i can defeat EG2 and just use the floor pot.
VCA modulation all you want through the init. gain jack, WITHOUT EG2 interfering!
- EG2 gets a jack out. it's the line controlling the VCA, aka the 0-5v envelope. could be useful.
when all that is done, i need me a voltage mixer..
pix soon.
