Re: MIDI Controllers with LFOs

[Dpcoffin@aol.com]

Re: the discussion about a standalone hardware MIDI source for an LFO, the 
suggestion about sending an analog LFO into a Peavy 1600, is intriguing. 

Searching for ready-to-wear analog LFO sources, I found:

Big Briar's MoogerFooger Ring Modulator has an LFO out jack;

Encore Electronics
http://www.encoreelectronics.com
has a box called the Expressionist that has 3 on-board LFO's with multiple 
waveforms, that can be assigned to up to 8 CV outs;

Kenton Electronics in the UK
http://www.kenton.co.uk/
has several similar boxes to the Expressionist, each with at least one 
multi-wave LFO feeding CV outs. They also sell a 1600-type thing called a 
Control Freak that will convert CV ins to MIDI. Don't know if they have a 
US 
distributor, or if power supplies are a problem.

Of course, there's always the option, on many multiFX, of patching one of 
these units' CV out to an exp-pedal input. And in every case, there's the 
question of whether a device without an internal LFO will respond without 
zippering to an external LFO, either MIDI or CV...depends on the unit, and 
on 
the parameter...and on the exact voltage coming in, plus many other 
imponderables and unpredictables, no doubt, suggesting the need for lots 
of 
expensive and time-consuming tests. When I win the Lottery, I will 
establish 
a fully-equipped test lab for trying out every possible piece of gear with 
every other piece, in an endless round of ecstatic purchase-ordering and 
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station.
dpc