A-100 analog modular Website
I often used my A-111-5 as a “stopgap” when I quickly needed another simple synthesizer voice and maybe was just too lazy to patch extra VCO, VCF, VCA, ADSR and LFOs for such a secondary voice . I was often plagued by the “guilty conscience of the modularist” when I ignored the far-reaching possibilities of … Read more
The A-112 is a small digital module that can record, store and play back transposed audio material – a sampler in small format. In addition, the module can also be used for simple wavetable synthesis and as an effects device. The module has two small memory banks (each 64 kbytes in size) to store audio … Read more
The A-110-2 Basic VCO is built on the same technical basis as the “standard” VCO A-110-1 that has been available for a long time. Like the A-110-1, it uses circuitry to keep the temperature-sensitive parts of the oscillator at around 50°C. With 8 TE, it is a bit narrower than the 10 TE wide A-110-1, … Read more
Compared to the A-110-4 Quadrature Thru Zero VCO, the A-110-6 has one more thing on top: We are not dealing with a sine core, but with a trapezoid core. This is a unique design that first creates a trapezoidal waveform, as well as a 90 degree phase-shifted trapezoid (the equivalents of the A-110-4‘s sine and … Read more
Unfortunately, only the BBD building blocks for 1024 and 2048 steps are still being produced, so that at some point the other BBDs will no longer be available. The BBDs with 256 and 512 steps are currently phased out models. Status: January 2023 BBDs – “Bucket Brigade Devices” are based on (analogue) storage components for … Read more
First of all: Wow, what a pompous name! “Quadrature Thru Zero VCO”! That sounds at least like Warp 11, quantum flux compensators and things like that, doesn’t it? The name is actually only topped by the A-110-6 “Trapezoid Thru Zero Quadrature VCO” – we’ll talk about that in a later blog post in this hyperspace … Read more
The A-143-9 Voltage Controlled Quadrature LFO / VCO is a voltage controlled sine wave generator that produces a very clean sine wave signal. With approx. 3 kHz, the LFO reaches into the audio range, with an additional control voltage it can even be used as a VCO up to approx. 20 kHz. Compared to “real” … Read more
The Quad VCLFO is actually almost a “real” VCO: It even has temperature compensation, which allows it to remain in tune even with external temperature fluctuations. Doepfer points out that the A-143-4 is not quite as accurate as the VCOs of the A-110 or A-111 series, but from my point of view it can be … Read more
The A-110-1 is Doepfer’s “standard” oscillator. The “standard” sounds a bit disrespectful, is that something like a “cheap VCO with economy sound”? In terms of sound, the A-110-1 does not have to hide, not even from significantly more expensive oscillators! First of all, the waveforms on the oscilloscope don’t all look “exactly mathematical”, especially the … Read more
The family of A-111 oscillators now includes an impressive 6 variants, all of which use the Curtis chip CEM3340 (or replica) with its triangular core and allow very precise tracking over 10 octaves and more. The A-111-4 is – nomen est omen – designed fourfold and also has a common “master” section, which affects all … Read more
