Seriously, there is NOTHING like the Vactrol sound. If there were
another option, then Buchla, Wiard, Plan B, Doepfer and Make Noise would
be using that option, as Vactrols are a royal pain. They are expensive,
big, suffer limited availability and worst of all, they are one of those
components that must be sorted for most audio applications. This is
because the spec for certain characteristics is very loose.

Florian mentioned getting the wood-block sound with any resonating BP
filter. I think he might have been writing of a different type of sound.
I imagine a wood-block sound as a very short sound, that is resonant and
yet does not ring much at all... Every block of wood I have ever hit
sounded something like that... The electronic bongo is more of a ringing
drum or plucked string type of sound, easily achieved with the Vactrol
based Timbral Gate. There are NUMEROUS demos here, just scroll down and
to the following pages of the thread:

http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php t=2272&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

also some here:

http://www.makenoisemusic.com/QMMG.html

Tony Rolando
Make Noise
http://www.makenoisemusic.com

madrayken wrote:

>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Doepfer_a100%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ken" <kenneth_harte@...> wrote:
> >
> > just saw this...
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch v=UJwTtrl6rus
> < http://www.youtube.com/watch v=UJwTtrl6rus >
> >
> > bongo with the new module from makenoise.
> >
>
> Indeed - this vid is what prompted my original question. By the sounds
> of it, you don't *need* a vactrol in order to produce the bongo sound.
>
>