while florians idea is good, i still like the
rotary octave switch better.

best wishes

ingo



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

>
> Hi Dieter
>
> I bought the Roland System 100 from Bakis some month ago, which has a
> VCO without octave switch, but a wide range potentiometer and a fine
> tune. I really appreciate this feature for a lot of sounds and find it
> extremely more useful than a 5- or 6-octave switch. Nevertheless I
> sometimes miss the possibility to switch one ocate up or down. So my
> suggestion is:
> - wide range pot 10 octaves
> - fine tune 10 semitones
> - on-off-on toggle switch with one octave up, normal, one octave down.
>
>
> Florian
>
> hardware@... wrote:
>
> >>Hmm... considering that module was mentioned;
> >>
> >>How far away if the A-111-2 Dynamic VCO prototype from release
> >
> >
> > There are still some additions/changes to be made. For me the most

important

> > thing is the missing rotary octave switch. In the prototype we

have a wide

> > range tuning knob and a fine tune knob available. From my point of

view it's

> > too complicated to use the tuning knob to adjust the frequency to

another

> > octave. Maybe I'm a bit spoiled by the A-110 and A-111-1 in this

regard but

> > for me it's a must have. Unfortunately this addition affects all

pc boards

> > of the module and the front panel layout and requires a total

redesign.

> >
> > Best wishes
> > Dieter Doepfer
>