yes,

ride decay:
replace r73 with a pot. the biggest i had was 1m, and the decay
didn't go long enough, so i put another 1uF capacitor in parallel
with c49. i put a 10k resistor in line with the pot to set minimum
decay, but it still almost disappears, which is fine with me. on the
closed hi hat, i didn't actually put a resistor for minimum decay.
that way it is almost silent (except for a quiet snapping) and i can
have the open hi hat hissing along by itself and then slowly bring in
the closed hi hat to get busy.

ride vca input:
is the + side of c34 (NOT the side connected to r60). the easiest
thing to do is cut the trace so the + side of the capacitor is
isolated. plutonique9 suggests using normally closed jacks, which
switch when you insert a plug. i had trouble with my shitty radio
shack jacks so i wired the jack and pin 1 of ra4 (which used to go to
c49) to two sides of a spdt switch, and the middle lug of the switch
to c49. in case it's not clear, what this does is allow you to plug
an external sound into the 707, and sequence the volume of it instead
of the ride. so if you plug in a radio (tuned to a talk show), you
can use the switch to choose between:
ride:"ding...ding.......ding..ding" and
radio:"ah...ats.......ven..aying" or some such nonsense. the ride
sequence gates the external sound. a very neat effect.

crash decay:
the crash has a slightly different decay envelope for some reason,
instead of just replacing a resistor, you wire the pot between ground
and the joint of r58 and c50. again i used a 1m pot (in line with a
10k resistor) and put another 1 uF capacitor in parallel with c50.

crash vca input:
same as ride, cut trace to isolate the + side of c35, wire switch and
jack between c35 and ra3 pin 1.

i thought plutonique had one of the resistors for the hi hat wrong,
but now looking at his instructions and my wiring, everything appears
the same.

this mod is rippin' i highly recommend it to anyone who feels
comfortable with the instructions.

greg

--- In tr-707@yahoogroups.com , "masterbentron" <bentron@c...> wrote:
> just read the decay / vca input mod txt file and saw the following
> line:
>
> >"I'll write up another doc soon on how to similiarly modify the
> >Ride (Star Chime) & Crash (Guiro) instruments, for decay times &
> >ext. audio inputs.
>
> decay for the ride, that would be great.
>
> any ideas how to manage that
>
> greets,
>
> max