D-Rainger wrote:I think some square wave - maybe via a non-latching on/off switch would be well tasty... Kind of 'futuristic' in a retro-synthy way.
BTW with optical tremelos (volume-changing), I always think the LED/LDR takes a moment to do what they're told, so with a 'square-wave' version there's always a tiny slope up and down. Now a non-optical one, snapping immediately to up and down - that'd sound... severe!
You're right about the opto response lag--not quite as sharp as other vcas, but you can get in the vicinity of squarewave for listening purposes, imho, and you can also get nice pulses by manipulating the duty cycle. Still, why settle for second-best, amiright?
One thing to keep in mind as you watch a lot of the Pitch pirate demos out there, is that they tend by and large to focus on the freakout noise-making potential to the exclusion of slightly more controlled sounds that can set up very useful seguencer-esque patterns.
I think the PGS demo here does a better job than most at showeing the range of things the PP can do:
http://proguitarshop.com/blog/mid-fi-electronics-pitch-pirate-modulator-3292
Especially interesting from 3:30 on....
My understanding is that Doug used a PT2399 and manipulated delay time via LFO to get the Pitch Pirate sounds. I'd be very interested to hear what would happen if a somewhat different approach to producing the pitch variation or lfo were used.
