Friday 1 April 2011

CV Tools Modules are now in production

It's been a while in coming but CV Tools Modules are now coming off the production line and going through a burn-in and test process to weed out any faults. The launch date is just over a week away - 9th April. The user manual is nearly done too. Details of distributors and price will be available very shortly.



So what's taken all this time? Well I just wanted to get the design right and pack all the features I could into it that make sense - I had several good suggestions from Muffs and other places and have built the best ideas into the design - the main one being the signal polarity LEDs to replace the channel routing LEDs (they really didn't add a great deal). There are jumper selectable coarse and fine normalled offsets for each channel and Channel 4 can be jumper configured to pass an accurate normalled bus CV into the mix for mixing VCO CVs. Check out the preliminary spec below.


Someone asked about these being available in kit form - if you would prefer to do this then please contact me.

Here is a preliminary spec:-

CV Tools Specification (updated 08.04.2011)

4-channel Polarizing Cascade Mixer

Channel 1

Input: 3.5mm jack IN1
Input impedance: 100kΩ (±1%)
Normalled input: VREF - jumper selectable to +5V, 0.5V-2.5V or none
Bandwidth: DC-15kHz (-3db)
Gain: LEVEL control variable 0 to ±2 (±3%)
Output: 3.5mm jack OUT1 - Normalled to Channel 2 output mixer
Output impedance: 1kΩ (±1%)
Output indication: ±LEDs

Channel 2

Input: 3.5mm jack IN2
Input impedance: 100kΩ (±1%)
Normalled input: VREF - jumper selectable to +5V, 0.5V-2.5V or none
Bandwidth: DC-16kHz (-3db)
Gain: LEVEL control variable 0 to ±2 (±3%)
Output: 3.5mm jack OUT2 - Normalled to Channel 3 output mixer
Output impedance: 1kΩ (±1%)
Output indication: ±LEDs

Channel 3

Input: 3.5mm jack IN3
Input impedance: 100kΩ (±1%)
Normalled input: VREF - jumper selectable to +5V, 0.5V-2.5V or none
Bandwidth: DC-15kHz (-3db)
Gain: LEVEL control variable 0 to ±2 (±3%)
Output: 3.5mm jack OUT3 - Normalled to Channel 4 output mixer
Output impedance: 1kΩ (±1%)
Output indication: ±LEDs

Channel 4

Input: 3.5mm jack IN4
Input impedance: 100kΩ (±1%)
Normalled input: VREF - jumper selectable to +5V, A-100 Bus CV or none
Bandwidth: DC-15kHz (-3db)
Gain: LEVEL control variable - jumper selectable to ±2 (±3%) or 1 (set by RV7)
Output: 3.5mm jack OUT4 and Slew Limiter input
Output impedance: 1kΩ (±1%)
Output indication: ±LEDs

Slew Limiter

Input: 3.5mm jack IN
Input impedance: 1MΩ (±1%)
Normalled input: Channel 4 output OUT4
Slew range: 0.5ms-1s
Gain: 1
Output: 3.5mm jack OUT
Output impedance: 100Ω (±1%)

General

Dimensions

3U x 12HP (128.5mm x 60.6mm).

Power consumption

+12V @ 20mA max, -12V @ 20mA max, +5V is not used.

Reference voltage (VREF)

Jumper selectable at each mixer input. Channels 1-3: 5.00V (set by RV6), 0.5V-2.5V (set by RV8), Channel 4: 5.00V (set by RV6), CV from A-100 bus.

A-100 Bus utilisation

±12V, 0V, CV used; +5V and Gate are not used.

Contents

CV Tools Module, 200mm long 16-way ribbon cable, 4 sets of M3 cap head socket screws, nylon washers and a 2.5mm hex key.

4 comments:

  1. Thanks Paul, you have done so well with the OSC303 - hopefully people will also buy the CCCP in similar numbers - what a great collectable pair of modules!!

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  2. Very exciting - hope it all goes well!

    Im going to have to place a diy kit order soon so hopefully the CV Tools will be ready to add to that!

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  3. Hi Dave, thanks for the well wishes. Starting to get lots of interest so I'm quite hopeful.

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