RE: 4 programmers hooked up simultaneously ?

From mikekent
Sent Mon, Dec 2nd 1996, 23:08

>> In many ways the first "Virtual Analog" (particularly if you never use the
>> sample playback waveforms, just the simple saw/pulse/etc.). It kept the
>> familiar subtractive synthesis voice architecture, building on concepts in
>> Jupiter-8 and MKS-80. Did anyone else ever use a D-50 with 4 programmers
>> hooked up simultaneously (one per partial)?
>
>Wow, that's a great idea ! (it wasn't a joke, was it ?)
>Guess I keep my D-550 now ...
>Four programmers. What an idea. How do you connect them ?

It's been a number of years, I hope I remmeber this correctly. The PG-1000
connects to the D-50/D-550 by the MIDI input. It also has a MIDI in that
merges incoming data with programmer data. You connect them serial: The
first is merged with the second, these two get merged with the third, 1+2+3
are sent into the 4th which merges all into the input of the D-50/D-550. We
sometimes used to do this when programming factory sounds. It's really cool
to have a synth with hundreds of sliders. If I remember correctly, the
ultimate setup would use 6 programmers: 2 to control parameters of the 2
tones, and 4 to control parameters of the 4 partials. (I never used more
than 4, tone parameters don't get edited as much).

Mike.

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