Derek, I promise the next video that I do will feature my own nasally,
skinny white-boy voice :)

Tony


Derek Holzer wrote:

>
> No, I guess it wouldn't need a vactrol to make the low-pass gate. But it
> would need to be a low pass gate, meaning that it would need to
> exponentially reduce the higher frequencies over time so you would get a
> lot of high frequency formants at the start of the note and it would
> dampen down to the resonant frequency at the end of the note.
>
> Perhaps a similar trick could be done with an envelope generator,
> however, controlling either the cutoff frequency or the resonance or
> both of a low pass filter. Might sound similar but probably not the
> same. I think I've seen some low pass gate designs that don't use a
> vactrol to control the shape of the high frequency decay, although as
> far as components go, a vactrol (an optocoupler combining an LED and a
> photoresistor...it's the slow response time of the photoresistor that
> gives the characteristic slew of the vactrol) is pretty darn cheap. But
> that's DIY talk again...
>
> The Make Noise low pass gate looks pretty good for what it is. We just
> gotta get that dude doing the demo to get rid of the vocal pitch
> shifter. Does he think he's James Earl Jones as Darth Vader or
> something ;-)
>
> D.
>
> 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.
>
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