General Usage
‘Dinky’s Taiko’ produces a drum ‘hit’ sound when a trigger signal (approx. +3v rising
edge) is applied to the trigger input. The two other trigger inputs - Acc (Accent) and
Choke - respectively either further emphasise the hit sound or immediately stop it in
the presence of a trigger signal.
The actual ‘hit’ sound is defined by the control knob positions and control voltage
input levels. All control knobs are offsets - any incoming control voltage is added to
them. They do not attenuate incoming control signals.
These controls are split into 3 sections: A digital noise section, an oscillator section
and an output section. They are described as follows;
The Noise section:
•Spectrum - Frequency of generated digital noise.
•Release - The release time of the exponential noise envelope.
Oscillator section:
•Freq Start - The oscillator start frequency when triggered. Roughly exponential -
but don't expect 1v/octave!
•Freq End - The oscillator end frequency. When the end frequency is reached the
oscillator resets immediately back to the start frequency.
•Speed - The speed of the oscillator frequency moves for the start to end
frequency. Higher values mean more metallic and FM like sounds as the oscillator
rolls over on itself being reset.
•Release - The release time of the exponential oscillator envelope.
•Wave - Selects the oscillator wave shape from a table of 24 varied wave shapes.
Wave shapes beginning with sines with increasing overtones, to various squares,
saws, blips, crunchy noise and vocal tracts.
