From Florian Anwander Sent Tue, Jan 9th 2018, 11:55
From Florian Anwander Sent Tue, Jan 9th 2018, 11:55
Hello Am 09.01.2018 um 11:38 schrieb Oakley Sound: > The actual ensemble circuit board module allows for the dry signal to > be mixed in with the effected signal but this has been left unused in > all the production versions I have seen. I think this needs some explanation for all Non-Tony-Allgoods ;-) : in opposite to the usual chorus or flanger effect the delay based ensemble effect does NOT use the original signal! "Ensemble" is not "Chorus": * Ensemble is a mix of vibratos, * Chorus is a mix of one vibrato with the original. This is, why all attempts of emulating a string ensemble with several chorus stomp boxes will fail. Basically it does not matter, whether you modulate the pitch of the original signal or whether you modulate the delaytime of a delay, that handles the straight (=non-vibrato) signal. But it is much cheaper to use three BBDs instead of three complete master oscillators with top octave divider and divide done cascades. There is an interesting thing in the VP330: beside the four ensemble BBDs the VP330 has also a separate BBD for vibrato, though a LFO modulation on the Masterclock would have been much easier. I think Roland did that, because the BBD based vibrato also "vibrates" the resonances of the vocal filters. That is, what makes the voice sounds of the VP330 quite realistic sounding. Florian -- http://www.florian-anwander.de