Behringer TD-3 [303 clone]

Are you sure of that?

Did you try sending audio through it as well?
Is that audible?

Audio in dosent work.

Just tried again with audio and LFO from the Brute and I’m positive : there’s no audio going thru, only cv mod.

Thanks for testing:
That’s quite brilliant actually!

errr… I have an opposite experience…

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Which TD-3 have you? I have the red one.
Quite soon we’ll realize the blue has a reverb instead of a distortion… :upside_down_face:

I wish it were so, since I’ve got not much with a303 through a ds-1.

(Btw: I’ve got a blue one)

Red one too. Two of them. Documentation:

Yes, and?

Both you and the manual are wrong. (!)

The Filter in is not a CV in, it’s definitely and audio in. Also, the audio doesn’t replace the internal VCO, it adds to it (not ā€œinstead ofā€).

I should add that, for me, the fact that the internal VCO is not silenced when there’s audio at filter in makes this feature a bit useless.

I read something about setting the vco switch between square and saw to silence it.

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that would be great… will try.

@thomaso, you’re right !

Crappy pattern as example:

TD3 with Manis iteritas at filter in (fade in)

TD3 with only Manis Iteritas, TD3 VCO switch between sqr and saw

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Well, I made a video : the filter in acts as both an audio in and mod in. When I tried earlier I didn’t know the TD-3 had to be playing note to let the audio go through.

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Very odd behaviour… can’t reproduce it with my own lfo. Will have to investigate this tonight.

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Are you using TS or TRS. Manual says TS. TRS won’t werk.

TS, standard cable I use from my A-145

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I use a TRS. That’s a cheap hack :upside_down_face:

Upon further tests… I can confirm the filter in is an audio in. However, the filter has a different response given the sound source gain (be it internal or external). When a control rate signal (LFO, enveloppe) is applied at filter in it is added to the internal VCO and changes it’s gain, which effectively modulates the filter frequency. This is certainly not a clean CV input, but now I can see how it can be abused as a it.

TD3 with LFO fading in:

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