FatMan Analog MIDI Synth Model 9308 ‘Assembly and Using Manual Its hard to best analog eth for fa, punchy Bass ines. And for ‘discovering new sounds, nothing comes closet fal Kxcbs operating in rea tinge The Fata has a of the features that give analog swarm ful tne in ' MIDI contlles package. ‘The classic normalization scheme of tin VCO! VCENCA. and Dual Transient Generators is brought up o date wih the incision of Velocity CV not avazabe on pre-MID synths. FatMlan loss tom the past by including features that were eccentes of caste synthe such 98 a uque"pure switch that acs 2 subtle but useful ‘th eogment to the standard ADSR response Dotails specific to the installation of the Fathtan ‘rcult board inthe $08C Desk Top enclosure are ‘covered inthe 8308C Supplement. Follow the ‘assembly Instructions in this manual unt instructed to reference the 9308C Supplement. 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The, ‘output ofthe optocoupe i alse bufered by 2 pa of Inverter tages IGT’ & a) wich ve te MD! Tr. ‘output J2. A ted Inverter stago, CT, aves the LED 02 {o gve an inleaton of MIDI acy on the input J DAG TUNING FaWan’s VCOs ar near in the way the frequencies fespond te Gort! Vatage changes. This means thet {ve must change exponentially Yo produce proper Biches. For example, to produce a pth an octave above the present pen the CV must dtl: fr an ectava lower the wotage most bo haved. Linear Digital to Analog Converters ae general no Good at generating These ‘unas of votagemerementa cous the OAG fs scaled to produce the largest volage necessary. a couple of ‘ediaves lower youre sealing with semitone volags changes that are mucr smaller than te rsoluon ofthe toast Sieniican ae Felon gets around tis problem by having the DAC (ics) ‘be responsible fr onl a single octaves worth ofthe CV. in teciak, the voliages for 12 equal tempered pitches ‘ae sparsely mapped along an exponential curve nthe 2seapace of thet OAC. Octave changes ae handled by the ranging network consisting of @ 14 Multiplexer (G3) tat selects one of our taps on the votiage der sting R17-R26. These component valves reduce a ‘tage at esc tap thats the votage of the tap above, (on the digital se of things, the DAC is gued tothe uP ata Ines with te octal latch IGS. The ranging MUX tonvoled by the processors TO and Tt tos. These Signals ae lovlshited to BV by discrete wansistore Q1 and 2. Im normal operation the votage generated bythe DAC an be though of as gong tom © down to CX, with ‘clave ranging changes happening between C¥ and the Cimmedatay blow t. So nat he masmum output range ofthe DAG can be Used (or maximum err of less than one cent the DAG ranged io produce 2 voltage ‘fom a nominal 3VforC(FFh ino the DAC) down toa nominal 177V for C8 (OEh ino the DAC). The 3V offset Irvosuesa by th current tow tough R12 and Ri causes the voltage Fom ho DACs aupul bur (in 7 of T10) ogo rom a neminal BV down toa nominal 3.177. Hut {2000 PAA Becton, Fair ose cy wih eros oy ‘onal ropes com Wats this 3.177V business? Wel, that isthe voltage {responding fo the octave beso BV (hich is SV) plus the voltage requred to prosuce the next semsione Up Sinco in equal tomparement each somone has 2 frequency 1,059 times the preceding semitone, ane Shee out Vollagelrequey response I incr, he nxt emitone above 3V ls 1-080 =3.177V (it you thinks Sei to read, ty explaning sore time) [Ate sop betwoen C8 andthe C below tthe DAC bulfor output returns o BV and te octave swiching atwork etches fo die ths in ha 0 the CV ta the VcOs becomos 3V, which 35 you now know isthe During calibration the output of the DAC as set by R13 is ‘acjusted o hath oxacy matches the offset vlige ‘fom 212 and RI, When these cncitons are mat, the ‘utp of te bor wil be some voltage Xn respons to fhemaxmum DAC oupat (FFh as dat) an exacty 2 ‘hen the DAC fs convouing no out a al (0h 35 ‘ata. Weve stated the ‘noma value of x a8 BV, which tay seam sor of sloppy (He actual vtage may be a5, Sow a6 V7) unl you real that t's the rato of 21 at Iaters and not the exact valve of he vetages. “The DAC must be tuned ave the octave from CO t0 C1 ‘oeause CO the only C that eauaes 00h tobe srt to {he DAC. In fvare, ths lowest CIs an exception fo the ‘rma ranging that happens Between C# and C. ‘once the DAC etna, the tar that st otave Intervals (R18, R24 and R24) re cuted so thal he Drciavee tree slurs bat rere Cabrean tMosalves o wih he tuning ofthe DAG so you usualy {ny hav ogo troogh hem onze or them to be rhe Sd the oroty i apa snd abe tey tnd Say ‘oh for 2 ong be In the final ealration sep, the two VCO are made identi! by acjsting the nro oft of VCO Bt so hat Irs tho samo as VCO #2. A subtely of the tuning process Is that tcomponsates fr any zoo offset in VCO #2 (wen means hat exacty zro vollage may nol produce fxacty 2076 Fequency, Weer than ft sounds). So as long ae VCO #1 i the same, everyting fe wondetul ‘The singe output ofthe DAC and Octave Range Steer f spit io Pitch and Velo CVS wih ho ample and hold rte but Using OpAmpe IC 2986, CMOS ewtehes ICT a8® and copactors CT and C8. System fmware cubs values fo the DAC and Range Switcher coresponcing tothe Pach CV then tums on ICt¥a to sample the voltage by charging capactor C7. GMa sen tumed of eae the votnge on C7. ‘The processor then repeats these actions fe to ‘Vtosty Cv turing on be saconé CMOS switch (011°) to charge CB The vllages onthe eapactors ar read ul by Bei corasponding OpAmp burs (C12 & >. ‘Comparators 108-280 prvi level vansiation ftom SV {o he higher votage noodes for he CMOS switches by \ying te open colector outputs tothe BV ral trough R29 and R20, ‘Leaving the bs an byte behing, we tum ou atlention FatMan MDI Synth 3