WMD PDO-TBVCA-QAAF illustrated manual supplement

demonamination · Post by **demonamination** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:11 pm

Hi !

Here is the previously announced illustrated supplement for the WMD PDO-TBVCA-QAAF serie. Currently I haven't enough time to add more patch, but I hope I'll have enough time later to do some updates...

Tell me if you see mistakes, or have patch suggestions ^^

Download here : WMD Phase Displacement Oscillator & expansions

Have fun !

spunkytoofers · Post by **spunkytoofers** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:55 pm

thanks for this..

the patch suggestions are helpful for the range of sounds and uses. i seem to always have this patched to an A/B switched bus or simply cv the pitch range for use as audio or cv duties.

Mefistophelees · Post by **Mefistophelees** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:06 pm

I should have a PDO shortly so this will be very useful!

Thanks!

Al · Post by Al » Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:40 pm

Very cool, thank you!

thebrotherspus · Post by **thebrotherspus** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:43 am

WOW!
this looks incredible.
thanks for this!

Liddlepud · Post by **Liddlepud** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:08 am

Thanks for taking the time to put this together and posting it up here. I'll have a play with some of the patches tonight, the SC output in LFO mode looks interesting and something I'd not even considered.

DREIPOLAR · Post by **DREIPOLAR** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:58 am

thanks! i have a pdo and i always though that was a very short manual for a very complex module. that was missing dearly!

Leisure Cove · Post by **Leisure Cove** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:01 pm

This is great-- well done!

demonamination · Post by **demonamination** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:13 pm

Hi !

Thank a lot for your cool feedbacks, glad it's useful ^^ That was a bit hard to choose how represent some features, like the SC Out, which is very nice !

There is a very wide range of timbral posibilities with the PDO, with and without expansions. That's really a great and innovative (in modular world) module !

chvad · Post by **chvad** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:34 pm

FANTASTIC! I wish I had this stuff! Maybe one day!

zdarma · Post by **zdarma** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:50 pm

Great job on the manual. Many thanks for putting in the time to do this.

DREIPOLAR · Post by **DREIPOLAR** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:11 am

fuck me im just working my way through the manual and the possibilities are endless. the pdo beats the cyclebox in simplicity and complexity and thats no small feat! its a sequencers dream vco .. im new berlin school after all.

DREIPOLAR · Post by **DREIPOLAR** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:22 am

here is a track i just did with the pdo through the schippmann vcf, the cwejman noise source and quadra envelopes:

http://soundcloud.com/lilakmonoke/wild- ... he-snow-on

http://soundcloud.com/lilakmonoke/wild- ... he-snow-on

can somebody please tell me why my soundcloud files are NEVER imbedded? something illegal in my name? mobbing?

sonicwarrior · Post by **sonicwarrior** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:02 pm

Use http:// instead of https://

knobs. · Post by **knobs.** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:07 pm

wmd is a lot of fun.
i can't believe how they are relatively so un-hyped around the board.
PDO-TBVCA-QAAF is a must for a 3/6U and a joy for the bigger systems.

Al · Post by Al » Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:19 pm

I have the PDO and VCA expansion. Could someone convince me as to why I should grab the QAAF? I'm tempted but already have 2 filters and I'm not sure I need it.

demonamination · Post by **demonamination** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:24 pm

@lilakmonoke: cool souds, great ^^ I've heard some other of your tracks, nice too

I agree with the lot of fun you can have with the WMDevices stuff. And another thing that is not enough mentioned -I think- is the fabrication quality of their modules, which is great ^^

For the QAAF, you're the only that can decide ^^ But for what I've understood, the topology used inside isn't prevalent in modular world (Butterworth response) -but maybe I'm wrong, and you have 4 of that in 4Hp ^^ Maybe it can add another new taste in your current configuration... Another cool thing is that the feedback capabilities are great because of the Mix out and/or normalled in/out with TBVCA/PDO (of course you can do that with every filter, but I find the feedback response of the QAAF very tasty ^^). At last (first ?), it's a good choice to reduce aliasing effect for all of your digital modules... 4HP for all of this features, that's... Cool !

And when modules are cool, it must be said

Have fun !

schege · Post by **schege** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:39 am

thank you so much for your work, Damonam, the manual is so usefull!
I wish somebody would like to do that for the Cyclebox as well.
Cheers!

DREIPOLAR · Post by **DREIPOLAR** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:17 am

demonamination wrote:@lilakmonoke: cool souds, great ^^ I've heard some other of your tracks, nice too

I agree with the lot of fun you can have with the WMDevices stuff. And another thing that is not enough mentioned -I think- is the fabrication quality of their modules, which is great ^^

For the QAAF, you're the only that can decide ^^ But for what I've understood, the topology used inside isn't prevalent in modular world (Butterworth response) -but maybe I'm wrong, and you have 4 of that in 4Hp ^^ Maybe it can add another new taste in your current configuration... Another cool thing is that the feedback capabilities are great because of the Mix out and/or normalled in/out with TBVCA/PDO (of course you can do that with every filter, but I find the feedback response of the QAAF very tasty ^^). At last (first ?), it's a good choice to reduce aliasing effect for all of your digital modules... 4HP for all of this features, that's... Cool !

so you wrote this manual without being conncted to wmd? im confused

thanks also so much for the "leave out the s" hint for soundcloud, ive been wondering about this for years and thought it must be some shoddy forum programming. not so!

ive decided against buying the filter although i would love to throw more $$ at wmd just to keep mr. williamson going faster ... i quite like the aliasing sounds and im not shure why i would hide that and turn this thing into an all analog vco. what would be nice is a direct output of the traingle core, thats pure analog then, no?

is there anything else groundbreaking that you can do with this filter?

what about posting some pdo tracks, owners?

DREIPOLAR · Post by **DREIPOLAR** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:48 am

i have to reverse that ... i just bought the QAAF and its extremely useful not just for anti aliasing but just in general taming any wmd module. those butterworth filters have a very special sound unlike any other filter i have. they kind of create a black frequency hole for the lack of a better word but they are not neutral by any means. should also work well with analog vcos.

FatRocky · Post by **FatRocky** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 9:37 am

THANKS for that manual;.. i'm rediscovering my PDO,

Please tell me one day there will be the Synchrodyne + EXpander ilustrated manual!

dkristian · Post by **dkristian** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:13 pm

Just got a PDO. Thank you for this!

Dogma · Post by **Dogma** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:49 pm

lilakmonoke wrote:i have to reverse that ... i just bought the QAAF and its extremely useful not just for anti aliasing but just in general taming any wmd module. those butterworth filters have a very special sound unlike any other filter i have. they kind of create a black frequency hole for the lack of a better word but they are not neutral by any means. should also work well with analog vcos.

Ive just decided its a "must" not a "want". I too could care about the Aliasing - yeah, exactly what you said

FatRocky · Post by **FatRocky** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 9:24 am

Do i need to have these three modules attached at the back for full functionality?.. For what i see in this graphic manual , there is a whole lot of functions they can do independently .

pugix · Post by **pugix** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 9:45 am

FatRocky wrote:Do i need to have these three modules attached at the back for full functionality?.. For what i see in this graphic manual , there is a whole lot of functions they can do independently .

If you have all three, you probably want to install the jumper cables between the boards. The four PDO outputs go to the QAAF inputs, which is very handy. However, if you patch a different signal into one of the QAAF inputs it's going to mix with the three remaining PDO signals. I also found that if the normalizing cable to the QAAF is omitted, its outputs exhibit a DC offset.

PDO outputs 2,3,4 are normalized into the three signal input of the TVCA. And then the three output of the TVCA normalize to the three phase CV inputs on the PDO. If you have a PDO MkII, it has switches on each phase CV channel to select between the output of the TVCA, the panel jack, or a mix of both. So the TVCA outputs can be switched off and not impact the PDO.

I opted NOT to connect the PDO outputs to the TVCA inputs. It's easy enough to patch these when you want to. My reason was that now the TVCA is easier to use independently as a mixer, and also the bipolar offsets are available when nothing is patch to a signal input.

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