Exploring the Sample & Hold Circuit | 7
Now you will hear a procession of distinct
random notes. Remembering back to our
first patch, you will probably note that,
again, the range of notes is quite wide–far
too wide for some musical purposes.
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Use the attenuator to narrow that range.
Patch the S+H output to the ATTN (+5)
input. And the ATTN output to the 1V/OCT
input.
Finally, we may want to break up the rhythm
a bit and get some more motion in our patch.
By patching the S+H output to the LFO
RATE, the S+H will change the rate of the
LFO. Higher S+H values will turn the LFO
rate up while lower values will turn it down.
MAKE THIS CONNECTION
We can use the MULT to patch the S+H
output to two places at once.
The MULT is a simple utility allowing you to
patch one output to multiple inputs. Patch
the S+H output (post attenuator) to the
MULT input, and then patch MULT 1 to the
1V/OCT and MULT 2 to the LFO RATE.
→Now you will hear that as the pitch of
the oscillator goes up, so does the rate of
the LFO–resulting in quicker notes as the
pitch increases!