Is there some kind of miracle cleaner that can bring back the original color to these switches? Much as I find the two tone look amusing, I’d still prefer the original color!
On another note, I was noodling around the other day and stumbled onto this talkbox-like patch that has a cool human voice sounding effect. Use the Modulation wheel to do the articulations.
FILTER
Filter Modulation: On
Keyboard Control 1 & 2: Off
Cutoff: -4
Emphasis: 7
Amount of Contour: 2
Attack Time: 400 msec
Decay Time: 400 msec
Sustain Level: 0
PS: You may need to adjust some of the settings as my Minimoog is a ‘77 and I’m not sure how far Off specification it may have drifted over 40 years. But the general settings should get you in the ballpark.
Glad you liked it. Here’s a similar alien noises one I did a few years ago with Animoog. This one sounds more effective thru headphones since there’s a lot of panning & stereo effects
hi normhart, i have done some work on restoring uv-affected switch colors. i wrote a post on my blog about it, take a look at the last few pics where i brought back the blue switch tops from a greenish color back to the original blue…might help you.
Thanks Blackout. Those are very impressive results and are exactly what I was looking for -great work! I saw a video somewhere that restored old plastic computer cases that had similar uv related marring. This is what made me believe that it was possible to restore discoloration.
great preset @normhart!
On our new unit I opened up the filter to -3 and introduced a little bit of noise on the modulation mix at 1 (Osc 3 and Noise positions, on the black modulation rocker switches) so one could feel the vocalisation with the mod wheel
regarding the decoloration, I understand it will take much more time to happen when not exposed to direct sunlight?
By all means, go all out on those settings. Those initial settings I made are definitely made to be tweaked. One odd note, I tried using these settings on my iMini iPad app and got nowhere near the sound I got on the hardware. I figure the model Arturia used had a different response compared with mine, or maybe just my 40 year old instrument drifted somewhat from what it sounded like out of the box in 1976/77.
You really need the UV light of the sun. The whole process and chemical reaction requires it.
A few guys have tried putting them under their lizard tank UV light and it kinda works.. but not as well and requires twice as long. It’s not as full spectrum.
