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I should buy 1000 at a steep discount.
Then keep them in sealed mayonnaise jars
in the vaults of Funk and Wagnells for 75 years.

I'll be able to personally deliver directly to your door in
my GooGull flying car any where on the planet.
Only 3000 credits for Earthers.
Mars and the moon will have ...

I could be wrong but that teeny tiny light bulb
is the kind that used to go in phones
back before LED's.

We use to put them under the hold buttons
of those old school Rockford Files phones.

You all know the theme song right?
Landmark Mini Moog song.

Royalston,

Not sure if your answering the right question there.
Or perhaps you saw my Mini Moog vibrato thread?
If that was it, I got an answer from Moog about it using the CP 251
that was what I was after. Kind of.

What I really need is a very small module that can take a control
voltage from ...

Well I got my question answered by Moog tech support.
Using a CP-251 I can use the cv out of pressure from the Mini.
Then use the LFO in the CP-251 jack in to the mini oscillator CV in.
The oscillator in will give vibrato centered on pitch.
Not additive. Done.

I think I can get nutty with this ...

Wow.

Nobody has done this with an original D retrofit or anything?
I'm about ready to try a bar from a small self propelled lawn mower
and do this mechanically.
Or maybe a knee swell pedal from a Farfisa. Remember those?

Also is there a way to adjust the pitch bend max setting?
A trim pot ...

Roland needs to hire Korg to make their boutiques.
That form factor for a minus module just looks right.
Very lap worthy.
I've got a D so not interested.
I'm waiting on the DM12.

Hooch

Those are my 2 thoughts as of now.
The midi to LFO to input may not be the answer
because I'm not sure what the mod source input
is meant to be for.

If I could get my hands on an LFO that's addressable
via pressure cv that would be ideal.
Then I could source a very small one and
attach it ...

I called moog.
There isn't a way to do this.
Not without doing a destructive mod of
some kinds but I haven't totally given up.
I need an LFO to experiment with.

Or my other thought was going
old school like an Egyptian
and making a pedal that attaches
to the wheel and mechanically
give it ...

After some practice I think the pressure out to oscillator in and
with the dial on the back barely cracked off full off,
you can do basic vibrato just like a real guitar string which is always up anyway.
If I'm doing solo violin type of emu's I'll have both hands anyway.

Is just really difficult ...

I need control over vibrato depth
with pressure.
I have to play one handed while covering other things.

Most every synth is capable of this and I'm just not finding a way.
I can whammy the oscillator pitch up but that's not controllable with consistency.

The mod source input means having ...

Perhaps so.
Right now to me it's not usable for much.
The effect is very subtle. Then it goes wacky.
I was hoping for controlable warmth with a touch of frying eggs.
Seasoned to taste.

Hooch

To me it sounds like the amp feedback is self oscillating and
there is a bit of gated stepping.
Since you have no control over that self oscillation, it doesn't change
No matter what you do.

I was under the impression that this was preamp into preamp overdrive.
That would just get dirtier and ...

So does anyone with a vintage get a weird modulated overdrive
with this trick?
I have a re issue D and it's very touchy. It's very subtle then you get
to a point where it just goes berserk. Almost blasted FM sound that
modulates between 2 tones at a medium slow tempo. Very distorted like
a guitar ...

Very very interesting indeed. I was just tackling this myself as I would
really like vibrato under pressure and am not finding a way to do it.

The other big one is setting the pitch bend to a more usefull interval
I haven't figured that one out either.
I think it's 9 semi tones now? Which isn't ...

Hahaha. Thanks.
Yes. I owned a Moog in the 70's.
Ultraman and Uh Oh! Chongo! were on after school tv.
Banana splits right?
And lest we forget. Dark Shadows!!
That show scared the crap out of me for some reason.

My first gigs were Moog, a Farfisa, and a Roades suitcase.
I had the hot set up ...