Make Noise Optomix Manual

Summary of Optomix

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    V2.4.

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    Optomix limited warranty: ----------------------------------------------------2 installation: ----------------------------------------------------------3 panel controls:-----------------------------------------------------4 overview:----------------------------------------------------------6 getting...

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    Limited warranty: make noise warrants this product to be free of defects in materials or construction for a period of one year from the date of purchase (proof of purchase/invoice required). Malfunction resulting from wrong power supply voltages, backwards or reversed eurorack bus board cable connec...

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    3 electrocution hazard! Bus board connection cable cable. Do not touch any electrical terminals when attaching any eurorack bus board cable. The make noise optomix is an electronic music module requiring 25ma of +12vdc and 25 ma of -12vdc regulated voltages and a properly formatted distribution rece...

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    4 1 2 3 4 6 5 7 panel controls 1. Channel 1 signal input: direct-coupled signal input capable of accepting audio or control signals. Range of up to 10vpp. 2. Channel 1 damp cv input: cv input for the channel’s damping parameter, now capable of accepting audio or control signals. Normalized to +8v so...

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    5 8 11 14 15 16 13 12 10 9 panel controls (cont’d) 8. Channel 2 signal input: direct-coupled signal input capable of accepting audio or control signals. Range of up to 10vpp. 9. Channel 2 control signal input: direct-coupled, highly-sensitive cv input for channel 2’s vactrol vca. Normalized to +8v s...

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    6 overview optomix is a two-channel low pass gate that utilizes 4 vactrols in order to provide simultaneousvoltage-control over the amplitude and frequency content of a signal. It is in essence, a vcf-a (voltage optomixsum ming stage, complete with an aux iliary input allowing for the chaining of mu...

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    7 getting started: it’s a vca, it’s a vcf... The low pass gate operates simultaneously in the amplitude and frequency domains. As a control signal becomes more positive, the amplitude of the processed signal increases with the lower frequencies control signal become less positive, the amplitude decr...

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    Tips and tricks: the damp cv input may act as an accent parameter when utilizing the optomix in a sequencing patch. For example, patch your non-accented envelope signal to a channel’s control input with the associated control combo pot set to about 70% for attenuation. Then apply an accent gate/sign...

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    9 patch ideas: the new bongo: set up a vco for two-operator fm by applying a sine wave to its linear fm input and patching the resulting waveform to optomix ’s channel 1 signal in put. Patch pressure points common gate out put to the optomix ’s channel1 strike in put and pressure points channel 3 ga...