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vidret wrote:

Inconuucl wrote:uMaths when

I just want for channel 1/4 to be v/oct tracking and channel 2/3 to be VCA's as well as attenuverters, instead of cramming it down.
I think 16 hp is as good as you're gonna get without losing i/o and keeping the knobs the same size, 14 might be doable with micro knobs.
Cramming it down there is probably not worth it, but it could be a good idea to put the i/o on top entirely and knobs on the bottom so you can tweak without cables getting in the way.

vidret wrote:

MrNovember wrote:

vidret wrote:

Inconuucl wrote:uMaths when

I just want for channel 1/4 to be v/oct tracking and channel 2/3 to be VCA's as well as attenuverters, instead of cramming it down.
I think 16 hp is as good as you're gonna get without losing i/o and keeping the knobs the same size, 14 might be doable with micro knobs.
Cramming it down there is probably not worth it, but it could be a good idea to put the i/o on top entirely and knobs on the bottom so you can tweak without cables getting in the way.

I'm kind of surprised they've never updated it to have VCAs on channel 2/3. That would be an amazing amount of added functionality without any huge changes. I would assume making channel 1/4 v/oct tracking would be a much bigger revision.

As for the size, I honestly wouldn't want it much smaller that 18hp. Maybe 16hp. I really don't like the micro knobs and I'd rather have some space to get my sausage fingers in there

to add VCA's on the 1/4 channels they'd have to add another input per channel, to add v/oct tracking they wouldn't have to change anything on the interface.
Other dual slope generators already do this, although some are fully digital (ritual electronics anima), there's the DUSG from random serge that tracks and is analog, I believe.

vidret wrote:OR

put it into something that can give you squarewaves; a comparator gives you a squarewave of your guitar signal, that you can then plug into the sync input of your oscillator. voy vey! homemade pitch tracking!

stuff that I know that does this is envelope followers like maths that can give you end of rise or end of fall out for the square, there's also a comparator in the cold mac if you have one.
If you have a PLL it's solved already.

But none of these is midi guitar tracking, indeed

vidret wrote:

MrNovember wrote: In my opinion, adding VCAs feels more like a simple addition to the existing circuit; there's lots of room at 20hp for a couple more jacks and they have lots of VCA circuit from which they could borrow. Making channels 1/4 track v/oct feels more like a full rewrite since it would require revisions to the core of Maths. I honestly don't know what would be required though, maybe it is a simple change, but if it is then it's kind of odd they've never bothered

I think they'd just have to change how the "both" input tracks? Tune it a bit, sort of. This might be super duper easy or very difficult, but I'd put my money on doable but why do it when people are still buying maths.