Doepfer A-198 Trautonium Module + Manual

Doepfer A-198 Trautonium Module + Manual Product Details

Description

Module A-198 is a trautonium manual / ribbon controller. An approx. 50 cm long linear displacement sensor is used as the controlling element, which is additionally equipped with a pressure-sensitive element.

Touching the displacement sensor with a finger generates a control voltage CV1, which is proportional to the position of the finger. The scale (i.e. to which displacement difference corresponds which voltage difference) is adjustable with a potentiometer on the front panel. The hold switch can be used to set whether the last CV is held or not (i.e. the voltage jumps to 0V) when the finger is removed. In the latter case a gate signal is additionally derived from the CV signal (e.g. for triggering an envelope generator) as soon as a finger touches the displacement sensor.

Below the displacement sensor there is a sensitive pressure sensor which generates another control voltage CV2 which increases with higher pressure. Again, the scale is adjustable with a potentiometer on the front panel. A second gate signal is generated when a certain pressure is exceeded. The threshold at which the gate signal is generated is adjustable with a knob on the front panel. The connection between module and displacement/pressure sensor is made via a 4-pin cable (as used for USB). The sensor is housed in a separate, silver-gray painted metal frame (dimensions: approx. 600 L x 30 W x 18 H, weight approx. 900 g).

Features:

• Doepfer - A-198 Trautonium Module + Manual.
• Trautonium playing manual, where the playing string has been replaced by the much easier to use displacement sensor. In combination with the Subharmonic Oscillator A-113, the Trautonium Filter A-104 and some other modules, the reconstruction of a complete trautonium is possible. With the help of the Quantizer A-156, exact semitone invervals can also be created.
• Ribbon controller for controlling any parameter in the A-100 (e.g. pitch, filter frequency, volume, panorama, tempo, modulation depth etc.)
• Dimensions of the manual: approx. 600 x 30 x 18 mm (without cover) / approx. 600 x 30 x 30 mm (with cover in the right margin)
• Weight of the manual: approx. 1kg
• Power consumption: 40mA on +12V and 20mA on -12V
• Depth : 40mm
• TE : 8