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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I had another thought, as i dont require a pulse to be any longer than about 5mSec for the sync signal have tried one section of CD40106 as a one shot with a second section needed as an inverter. there are a couple of issues with this idea though
A] the ramp wave at TP1 is not of high enough a voltage to reliably
trigger the one shot as is with a +15V supply if i lower the supply voltage to the CD40106 to obtain a lower trigger voltage the resulting output pulse is not high enough for long enough to reliably switch the DG413
B] if i increase the output at TP1 by adjusting the level on the clock board
this works ok but needs to be at roughly 8 volts though
this then obviously affects the pulse width control of the clock
making the mininum pulse width obtainable about 35-40% no good!
so i need to increase the level another way
so i will try adding an non inverting opamp with a gain of 2 before the one shot cct
I think this should work out well, will try it out tonight. Smile
edited: to remove stupidity!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Doh ! Embarassed haha or i could simply adjust the level of the comparator on the master clock boards upward by changing a resistor - R13 so that it compares above 8 volts instead of 5 will try that first [less components] Wink


edit : will also have to check if this change will have any adverse effects concerning the PWM attenuverter's sensitivity
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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will also have to check if this change will have any adverse effects concerning the PWM attenuverter's sensitivity


hmm does lower the sensitivity of the PWM input too much
will go with the opamp with some gain into the cd40106 oneshot idea
i first had



and now apparently chasing a ghost as well that infuriatingly comes and goes:?
may take a while to track that down very very frustrating Mad
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

diablojoy wrote:
and now apparently chasing a ghost as well that infuriatingly comes and goes:?
may take a while to track that down very very frustrating Mad


I know the feeling, you'll get there tho!

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

thanks blue hell
I will get there eventually i think
it is what i used to do a long long time ago tracking down hard to find intermittant faults in telecomunication networks [ last man in, some of those took months and had been on going for years ] but i have forgotten much since then.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

updated new scheme with now preferred sync cct
tested a single cct on breadboard which worked great Smile
will see how four perform soon as i can get a board done hopefully by tomorrow
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

thumb up Hang in there! You almost need your own blog just to track this one's development
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hi,

emdot_ambient wrote:
thumb up Hang in there!


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

have decided that i will only do a dual board layout and concentrate on that
I think i may be the only one doing a quad unit and i can always just stack 2 boards for that. so its not a big issue and much easier to layout




oh and an issue maybe finally understood somewhat
when breadboarding as usual i did not use 22R resistors at the supply
[fortunately it seems or i would never have got this far]
but i did use 22R when doing the sync board itself and ran into a problem most of the time but not always with the clock almost locking solidly high C2 has +15v on one side of it on fonik's cct which I am trying to switch
through one section of a DG413 chip which going off the data sheet it should do apparently Shocked not so much it seems. hours and hours of Confused ensued as i naturally looked for other board issues and couldn't find any
It is fine when the DG chip is supplied at 15V on the breadboard and the clock boards are supplied via their 22R resistors here as there is a very slight voltage drop on the clock board so 15v on C2 is not 15v exactly but slightly less.
so this is a bit of a problem and worse for people using ferrite beads say instead of resistors. so i think i will keep the usual spots for 22R resistors on the sync board but suggest that they be replaced with straps or ferrite beads once the board has been smoke tested.I will also see if adding a spot on the sync board for a diode to go in between the +15v side of C2 and the DG chip switch section to get a voltage drop there will work just to be on the safe side for those that did build their clock boards with ferrite beads. if both work out it should cover everything
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

needed to do both, the diode and using straps instead of F1 / F2 on sync board to get it working reliably every time. maybe slightly out of spec DG chips ? may have to check some other manufacturers models. any way lots of wiring to do now so i can check if all 4 ccts will perform together, though not till next weekend now i fear.
also updated previous scheme to reflect latest changes.
after some more study of the DG413 data sheet i got over my normal paranoia and have removed most of the protection circuitry it was way overkill and not really required .
added a 2n3904 after the schmidt trigger for a drive cct. I think you would definitely want the option of running a couple of outputs for sync
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hi,

thanks for the update! It´s good to see things moving in the right direction... thumb up

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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2011 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

completed wiring up of quad clock panel with 2 x DG413 dual sync/ blanking boards last night Smile so far so good. though there may still be some minor changes yet
but it all seems to be behaving itself reasonably well
will test over the next week or two if that goes well
I will then do a test build of another quad module using DG412 switches requires a small addition on the board to enable blanking switches to be held high when no jack is inserted, only an additional 2 resistors and a connector. fits on the [then hopefully] final board layout easily enough.
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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

pretty happy with this now just a couple of very minor things left
so I thought i would put up a couple of tracks with it thru one of fonik's
sequencers
there is no knob twiddling with these whatsoever and no ADC used, all of the seq steps are set to on
A master clock syncing a slave and also blanking the slave output only the slaves output is used to clock the seq and an eg set on gate with very low settings for attack and release
morphing is all down to an LFO only changing the pulse width on the master clock on the first track and both master and slave on the second track [hope i get them the right way round ]+ the LFO is also modifying the filter to give indication of where its at.
edit : nope they were right in preview but flipped when posted
OK so test 6 has both master and slave pulse width's modified by an LFO
test 7 has only the masters pulse width modified its actually pretty easy to pick it anyway Laughing oh and before anyone asks no there was no varying of clock speeds at all, and yes that does add yet more flavour ! as do the slave /master switches but to be honest about those it just gets a little too weird with everything else going on.


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PostPosted: Thu May 12, 2011 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

well this will probably fuss my upload limits, but had to add this one as well
too classic not to ! Shocked
mathias your clocks really do rock ! Very Happy
similar patch to before but i put a CV in to the slave clocks rate
simply an attenuated square wave to change the slave clocks rate slightly
Id like to dedicate this little number to JLHooker but he'd probably turn over in his grave Laughing


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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2011 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Pretty wild! And I mean wild as in untamed Confused Sounds like it might be a bit of a struggle to get something intentional out of this mod but also like fiddling around with them is inevitably going to take you into unexpected and interesting places. I'm stoked!
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2011 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Laughing yes it can get a little unpredictable but then there is a fair bit of modulation of the pulse widths and the slave clock rate going on by that last one
the sync by itself is very predictable now
the blanking is predictable also
but when you start changing the pulse widths and clock rates with CV over time the final output can get a little on the wild and quite good fun side.
An additional fine rate pot could be benificial on the clocks
I may try another build with coarse and fine switching for the clock rates
as i still have quite a few 1v per octave/semitone switching boards spare from my VCO builds , that should make patches easier to recall.
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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

a couple of home etched prototype boards
came up quite nice Cool


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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hey,

this looks real good! afro

Please make the files and a little wiring instructions available for us home-brewers.
Please

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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

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Please make the files and a little wiring instructions available for us home-brewers

It all seems to be working acceptably now and i have tested it every which way i can without any magic smoke Shocked coming out , so
i think this is about as ready as its getting. therefore here you go Very Happy
hope the doc's are up to scratch but if anyone has any queries or any probs just let me know here and I will help to the best of my limited abilities
cheers
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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Hi,

diablojoy wrote:

It all seems to be working acceptably now and i have tested it every which way i can without any magic smoke Shocked coming out , so
i think this is about as ready as its getting. therefore here you go Very Happy


Great! Thanks so much for making this happen. Hail the Master

Cheers...

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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I made an extra dual sync board beyond my requirements during my testing. it is the one with coloured straps in the photo
and is up for grabs Shocked
comes fully populated except for the DG chip.
it has been tested .

first come first served please PM me if you want it
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board is gone . Smile
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diablojoy wrote:
board is gone . Smile
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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

just a bit of clarification on the master/slave panel switches
with this board they probably shouldn't be called master and slave
at all in this case as they just do rather odd things
as you start to work out how this cct board interacts with 2 clock boards
with different switch settings, different patches and different pot settings
both clocks can at times be master or slave or neither or something else
inbetween
I have some idea's using DPDT center off switches but
to be honest it's doing my head in trying to work it all out and in the end
i am not sure that its actually worth the effort for an addition that is not that usefull any longer

so i think i will just refer to the switches as Dave and the other Daves for now on my quad build. they can be interesting to flick on occasionally but
I probably won't include them on any more of my builds . so if someone comes up with a master/slave solution thats works correctly please post it here for any others that may want it
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