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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:25 am    Post subject: the snappiest adsr eg of the world schematic
Subject description: Roland System 100m A-140 module
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I’ve found the schematic of the snappiest adsr eg of the world !!!

It's the Roland System 100m A-140 module. (dual eg + lfo)

http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Roland/System-100m/
http://www.analoghell.com/studio/index.cfm?fuse=100m&module=140

• ENV GEN
• Attack: 1 .5ms-7.5s
• Decay; 4ms-15s
• Sustain: O-±1OV
• Release: 4ms-15s
• Out: 1kOhm
• Gate/Trig Input: 50kU, 3V Min.

(are these specs significant anyway ?)


Look how simple it is. One 4558 and 10 trannies !


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Resistor values are shown on the components layout, barely readable.

A friend of mine owns a system 100m ; we’ve done a test with these envelope generators and Oakley eg (I guess the AD/AR eg model).

Waouh ! tests have been shorten and oakley stayed unplugged for the night !(oakley eg are what I call my best adsr… )

My (poor) friend won't sell his 2000$ system 100m mainly because of its adsr eg.

You will have to trust me for a week or two, till I post some audio…

Coud there be any technical reason for my excitation ? Very Happy


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

(only three or four resistor values are missing so I will check them with the orginal module in hands)

diodes 1S2473 seems to be Germanium.

But they seem to be used in an usual "switching way".

So do you think standard silicon 1N4148 would do the job, or maybe the 0,4V/0,7V gap could interfere and lead to misfunctioning ?

the snap is in germanium !? Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

cheers.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

well, lucky me then, I have around 20 of those adsr´s..... Smile

you will find better scans of the m-140 schemo at the roland 100m forum :

http://sys100m.org/
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

NO ?!

you're my man ollie ! (btw isn't your nickname Hans Zimmer ?)

Do you have other ADSR design ? What's your feeling about roland eg ?


So sad my MFOS eg is retired (not so sad)
So sad I've quickly sell my doepfer vc-adsr (real no sadness)

I was happy with Oakley but now, i'm -just- jealous.


[edit :

1 - Zimmer has 32 eg ! so you're only the second happiest man in this world...

http://www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html


2 - M-140 are at 400$ now on eBay...

3 - I've give up with rapidshare long ago..."Access code wrong."

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

well, I think this adsr is ok, never thought of it as neither very fast or too slow to be honest, Ive never looked at the specs before either

- sh*t, I´ll have to get me a couple of more m-140´s then Wink

(if you still need the 140 schemo, pm me your emailadress and
Ill send it to you)
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Ok !

Quote:
never thought of it as neither very fast or too slow to be honest


maybe oakley are just loose booty type...

Maybe it deals more with how controls behave than with (minimal) specs...

DOEPFER vc-adsr were awfull ; "loose controls" while A, D S and R pots on Roland seems to be (waiting for you) in the starting blocks...

start to feel stupid with these explanations...

I need audio sample as a proof Wink

i'll be back in few days.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

1.5ms is not bad but it is not great compared to modern EG like technosourus which is faster by a factor of 10. I think even MFOS ADSR is quicker.

100m stuff is goodish, but I personally found the form factor too cramped to work with.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Isn´t it just the timing constant that defines the rise time? smaaler rc - faster attack. Nothing special or modern about that in my understanding. maybe more interesting what happens inbetween the stages, how linear or exp. the curves are? Why are there differences in these designs anyhow?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

g2ian wrote:
1.5ms is not bad but it is not great compared to modern EG like technosourus which is faster by a factor of 10. I think even MFOS ADSR is quicker.


eg attacktimes of some wellknowns synths, no modulars, but may be of some interest anyway

http://analog.no/cms/forums.html?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&Itemid=61

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

i think the mfos adsr is TOO slow. i cant get any good percussive stuff out of it.

maybe i have it setup wrong? but when i hooked up a serge negative slew, that thing was fast!

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:11 am    Post subject: the snappiest adsr eg of the world schematic Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I hear a lot about "snappy" envelope gens, but I often wonder how much of that is just a quick attack / decay time. Simply changing the timing cap in the MFOS eg (or pretty much ANY eg) should give similar results, unless there's some other magic mojo going on with envelope slopes / shapes or clipping or something like that. Still, it's VERY easy to try a smaller timing cap and see if that gives you more "snap."


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

my question this, is there more than one cap to change? i dont want to make the envelope have less decay only more attack. so would that be possible by just finding the one cap to change?

thanks

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:38 pm    Post subject: the snappiest adsr eg of the world schematic Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Nope, there's only one timing cap in an ADSR circuit. This cap gets charged and discharged to create the envelope, but in most cases diodes are used to "steer" the current so that the charge current goes through the attack pot, and the discharge current goes through the decay pot (the release pot is switched in later, after the sustain portion). Because of this, changing the timing cap will vary the time constant for A, D and R (no effect on the sustain level, at that's not a time function). A smaller value cap will make all of the times shorter.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

interesting...see i want to be able to have long release times if i want them but super short attacks....maybe i need a switch

thanks

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

timing constant (or filterfreq - also the same rc network)) is determined by a resistor and a cap. If you want very long release you can choose the biggest pot, like 10m. For attack you can use a small pot, like 10k. with one cap.
Often you will find a series resistor somewhere around the cap to set a minimal time constant. By shorting that resistor you can get very fast charging.
I guess the type of cap is important as well. If i´m correct some caps will not charge evenly and tend to leak. So i prefer larger pots and smaller, but quality (foil) caps.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Yep !

All my eg has a switch and a additionnal 4.7uF in place of the stock 10uF.

A tantalum cap seems to be often prefered here.

sadly M-140 is still snappier. (just because of its 3.3uF cap ?)
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Cwejman envelopes are known to be snappy.
Here's the specs as published:

specifications:
attack time - 0.1 msec to 10 seconds
decay time - 0.5 msec to 20 seconds
sustain level - 0 to 8 volts
release time - 0.5 msec to 20 seconds
attack mode - log/exp
outputs - 0 to 8 volts, normal; 0 to 8 volts, inverted
level cv - 0 to 5 volts
time cv - 0 to 5 volts
sustain cv - 0 to 5 volts

I can never seem to find the right setting with Doepfer EG's and often mix 2 together at different switch settings (fast and medium) to get sometjing useful but the Cwejman are musical (and really quick if you want that) and no switches necessary. I don't have any cap values though as I have a S1Mk2 and it's quite a job tearing it open. Perhaps someone has the modular version and can take a look at the values?

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Thank you !

doctorvague wrote:
I can never seem to find the right setting with Doepfer EG's and often mix 2 together at different switch settings


But I suppose these eg don't have to be ashamed of their specs.
which makes me think that curve matters

Did I ever say I like my SH-101 ? and love its snappy eg...

Andi Freeman (?!) is agree with me...

Andi Freeman wrote:
The 101 has the fastest attack time of anything roland ever made and self oscillates at the drop of a hat, if you can't get the most awesome kick or sub bass sound out of a 101 then give up now, go listen to the spice girls or genesis.

(listen to anything on Dragonfly, Blue Room, Concept in Dance and there is a 101 on almost every track, believe me I know !)


http://www.sonicstate.com/synth/sh101.cfm

What's the secret with roland eg ?

edit : I don't like acid !


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

When programming a SH101 or one of it's siblings, I often used the gate signal for the VCA and use the ADSR for filter frequency only.

I guess you couldn't get a faster attack than by just using the raw gate voltage to drive the vca.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I also gate the vca, and when I route eg to vcf, I find this filter to be snappy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

funkyfarm wrote:

which makes me think that curve matters


thats what i think too !
For me it seems that the rough time numbers don't tell you too much.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Funky40 wrote:
funkyfarm wrote:

which makes me think that curve matters


thats what i think too !
For me it seems that the rough time numbers don't tell you too much.


Right i guess (i hope)

And he "global level" must also have an impact on the segment curve.

Oakley ADSR+VCA module outputs ADSR eg with 10V as sustain, while the vca outputs the same with +5 volts as a reference for sustain...

A log segment "looks the same" when rising from zero to +5 and zero to +10 ?

Here's the SH-101 specs (in big milliseconds) :


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

my friend (nearly homeless...) will lend me his Roland system 100M ?!?

sound to come Wink


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

g2ian wrote:
Roland 100m stuff is goodish, but I personally found the form factor too cramped to work with.


i missed that.
I'm sorry I don't understand what the form factor means ?

Contrary to Oakley, Doepfer, MFOS and on, S100m eg seems to have like a focus area on the short times (ATTACK/DECAY). I can get short settings out of A, D and R segments that cannot be obtained on my MFOS Aadsr eg.

I still don't think it's because of the sliders-type potentiometers.

Anyway, i'll try to put S100m-like 3.3uF cap on my eg instead of 4.7uF...
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