Make Noise Mysteron User Manual

Summary of Mysteron

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    Thank you dsp engineer: yerpa58 lead designer: tony rolando assistant design engineer: matthew sherwood beta analyst: walker farrell, lee coleman, devin booze test subjects: richard devine, surachai inspiration: ron berry, julius o. Smith, karplus & strong and jaffe limited warranty: make noise warr...

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    Installation: the make noise mysteron is an electronic generator requiring 95 ma of +12v and 25ma of -12v regulated power and properly formatted distribution receptacle to operate. It is designed to be used within the euro format modular synthesizer system. Go to http://www.Doepfer.De/a100_man/a100t...

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    Overview some say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, expecting different results. By that definition, the mysteron is insanity. Simply put, it is a voltage controlled digital waveguide algorithm; however, that does not completely explain all of its behaviors. The myst...

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    Mysteron interface 1 3 8 2 4 5 6 7 1. Coarse pitch panel control: sets length of waveguide or perceived pitch of sound, roughly 5 octaves. Quantized mode at full ccw. 2. Mystery led: lights to indicate mutations, flashes slowly on bowed/ cross-feedback modes, and flashes quickly in quantized mode. 3...

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    Mysteron interface (cont’d) 13 17 18 16 19 12. Depth: sets how much the waveguides are mutated. Operates as combo knob, with nothing patched to depth cv in, works as standard panel control. With signal patched to depth cv in, works as attenuator for that signal. 13. Depth cv in: unipolar control inp...

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    Making sound with the mysteron! At the bottom of the mysteron there are two excite inputs, along with leds to indicate activity. The mysteron will make no sound unless you patch something to at least one of the excite inputs. When the mysteron is excited, a burst of energy (in the form of noise and ...

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    Tip & tricks 1. Mysteron must be excited at some point to make any audible sound. 2. Setting generation to 100% re-generation, the mysteron will self-oscillate once the initial excitation occurs. 3. Be sure impulse is set to greater then 0% to achieve audible sound. 4. Impulse parameter could be use...

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    Patch ideas (cont’d) typical voltage controlled twangdoodle patch pressure points common gate out to rené x-clk, and pressure points gates 1 and 3 to y-clk. Set rené to cartesian mode and enable all steps on the access page. Program a sequence with lower notes toward the bottom of the rené grid, and...