VCA Duck
Simple and Flexible Solution for Kick Sidechaining, Based on sdiy Luther's Design
v0.1
Specifications
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Width | 10HP |
| Depth | ~35mm skiff friendly |
| +12 Current | - |
| -12 Current | - |
| +5 Current | 0mA |
Features
- Seperate inputs for Kick track and all other tracks
- Switchable envelope follower/internal envelope for VCA modulation with indicator LED
- Selectable Kick/Signal/Mix output
- Gate in to manually trigger envelope
- External envelope input and envelope output
- Decay control for internal envelope and envelope follower
- Crossfading bias control for signal and kick tracks
- Controllable kick volume
- Attenuate and attenuvert the envelope for different amounts of VCA modulation
Quirks and Problems
- Works very well
- Envelope out is before the attenuverter, so the signal is always positive (not neccessarily a problem, but is good to know)