Hello Florian,

Thanks for this, it's a really helpful explanation.

Really I'd like both but I don't have enough room in my P9 case and don't want to start a separate case again.

Matt

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander <fanwander@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Matt
>
> Am 22.01.2012 19:06, schrieb Matt Fretton:
> > Is the A-136 a simpler and smaller version of the A-137-1 or are there
> > more significant differences I don't have the space for both...
> The A136 is basically like a guitar distortion stomp box going over the
> top - and with the possibility to have different distortion levels for
> the positive and the negative parts of the signal. Technically you may
> think it is a compressor/expander with zero attack and release rate and
> separate ratio and threshold for both half waves.
>
> The A137 is like four simplified A136 stacked up in series. Simplified
> because you do not have separated access to the two half waves. Also you
> do not have access to the parameters of the individual stages. Instead
> of that you control parameters which affect all stage the same way
> (exception 'Folding Level', which decides how "deep" the signals is fed
> into the four stage chain).
>
> Sound wise: The A136 can(!) be a very very good dynamic distortion box,
> but it is not easy to handle. The parameters interact very much, and
> very often one wrong set parameter spoils the effect of another parameter.
>
> The A137 is a little easier to handle, but also here the "damping"
> interaction between different parameters should be obeyed. To my
> experience, it is better not(!) to modulate the A137 with CVs, but
> instead already modulate the signal level of the signal, which feeds the
> A137.
>
> For both modules, I like to use velocity CV, but with quite low
> modulation amount. I like to use them for external polyphonic signals
> (epiano, synths, guitar).
>
> Florian
>