I've got the full A-129 and I find that the slew limiters really add to the intelligibilty of speech. I've never tried it with fewer than the full 15 bands, but I have noticed that there are typically some bands that are much more important to add slew limiting to. I'll have to get scientific about this. You probably could get by without all three A-129-3 modules. You will definitely need a A-129-4, however, because it's what makes the A-129-3 work.

Bryan

>>> julian@... 05/10/05 10:41 AM >>>

I had an a129 1/2 and sold it because i didn't find it interesting.

Almost 2 years later, i though id give it another go, and bought the analysis/synthesis modules, one slew limiter, the slew
controller and the voiced unvoiced detector.

I plugged it all together and started grinning.

I don't use the vocoder for speech - more often drum processing. Id leave out the voiced / unvoiced detector, but certainly get the
slew module(s).


Remember you don'ts need all three slew modules. Yes, if you're wanting to use all the bands, but i get very nice results out of
mine just using 5 bands at a time. Remember, its modular (stating the obvious ; ) and swapping about the bands makes a lot of
difference. 15 maybe would be better then 5, but i use my synth in a very 'hands on' real time way, and i think, possibly, the
extra 2 module (10 bands) would confuse things more then theyd be of benefit.

So, in my situation, id say no to just the 1/2 module, and yes to the 1/2 plus slew controller and one slew module.

My opinion only,

Cheers, Julian


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