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SD 80'81 - Tuning Theory

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This post was updated for 808 day 2022. Some errors and unclear explanations were fixed.  This post first appeard on the SS-30M blog on 02/11/21 808 Snare Continued...  I have been happily using my Mutant Snare since the investigation into 808 snare tuning last year, but I still have an itch to create a solution for tuning the 808 snare in a more flexible way.  The conclusion is that I now have design parameters for my own tuneable 808 snare and as a bonus I figured the vexed problem of Q and the decay time! Mut' Point After considering my options I decided that modding the Mutant Snare was not the way to go. There will be no Mutoid Snare. Instead it will have to be a whole new module to get what I want. However, I have made a list of mods that would not be particularly invasive and would make the Mutant Snare even more flexible. The main idea is to bring the filter CV jumper to a switch. This jumper setting selects between the snappy envelope and osc 1 as the source of CV for the