Doepfer Dark Time

Dark Time

I like how the switches labels could easily be rap lyrics =D

It's very pretty.

where does one get doepfer shit in teh US?

doepfer's site site said US was analogue haven... and i like them just fine, but they only had five modules or so up, no dark energy or whatever...

I think the dark time and dark energy modules are fucking wicked and want them both.

  On 10/19/2010 at 9:27 AM, hahathhat said:

where does one get doepfer shit in teh US?

 

doepfer's site site said US was analogue haven... and i like them just fine, but they only had five modules or so up, no dark energy or whatever...

http://www.analoguehaven.com/doepfer/darkenergy/

fucking cum out of my dick....

need money gahhhhhhhhhhh

ugh I WANT

  On 10/19/2010 at 5:47 AM, Brandi_B said:

I like how the switches labels could easily be rap lyrics =D

oh lol

  On 1/9/2011 at 11:25 PM, chassis said:

  On 10/19/2010 at 5:47 AM, Brandi_B said:

I like how the switches labels could easily be rap lyrics =D

 

oh lol

sheesh

well, I've got a dark energy now, so would looove one of these to go with it....not strictly necessary though as I'm using numerology which is basically exactly the same thing in software.

  On 1/10/2011 at 12:51 PM, BCM said:

well, I've got a dark energy now, so would looove one of these to go with it....not strictly necessary though as I'm using numerology which is basically exactly the same thing in software.

Have you posted any tracks done with the DE yet?

Do you d00ds know any good kits for building a sequencer like this? I'm sort of a mung though.

woah they have some badass stuff

http://www.doepfer.de/home_e.htm

  On 1/11/2011 at 12:11 AM, analogue wings said:

  On 1/10/2011 at 12:51 PM, BCM said:

well, I've got a dark energy now, so would looove one of these to go with it....not strictly necessary though as I'm using numerology which is basically exactly the same thing in software.

 

Have you posted any tracks done with the DE yet?

nothing proper, but there's a few noodlings on my soundcloud page - first 3 or 4 tunes are all Dark Energy apart from teh drumz.

Boy I have a craving to pick this up

However, i'm quite miffed as to how you actually input notes into the sequence?

What do those main knobs control and how are they used to sequence the notes? Been trying to find tutorial videos, but anyone which goes into detail is in German

call me silly, but anyone?

You turn the knob for each step, tuning the voltage to a note.

i seeee - so the knobs don't necessarily lock into specific notes (C,D,E etc.), they free wheel between tunings? still a bit lost....

I think there's a note quantizer on there as well.

I think Aphex uses detuned synths more often than microtonal sequencer settings.

As I understand the step knobs just set the CV for each step. The range switch determines the range of the knob (1V, 2V or 5V) but you can also switch on the quantization.

From the manual:

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When this switch is set to ”Off”, the step controls will be almost continuously variable within the range determined by the ”Range” switch. We use the term ’almost’ since it is still stepped digitally, but into 1024 very small increments which are – in effect – continuous and barely noticeable. Set to ”On”, the control voltage range gets scaled. That means, it is sliced into discrete steps that are equivalents of musical semitones. The number of chromatic steps, i. e. semitones that are covered by one entire turn of a step control is again determined by the setting of the ”Range” switch. When set to ”1V”, the step controls are quantized into 13 discrete semitones (one octave, or – to be more precise – a ”ninth” interval; e.g. ”c” to ”C”). ”2V” means 25 semitones (two octaves) and ”5V” means 61 semitones (five octaves). ”Scale” will be used for future updates

So you can rotate them freely to any CV within the range or lock into CVs that are essentially semitones.

Also you can control any CV controlled parameter with the CV from the Dark Time. Like say cutoff or PW in the DE.

so basically an analogue sequencer which works like any other analogue sequencer.

It would be a nice electronics project to build your own analog sequencer. Shouldn't be too hard.