First hands on with Anushri synthesis feedback

Discontinued products Anushri
#1

Hi All,

Here’s some feedback from my first TLC time with my anushri, mainly trying to make sure I understand what’s under the hood. I really love this thing. After messing around in all possible directions, I decided it was time to figure out properly the sound engine and here’s my first batch of questions :wink:

My first step was to try to reset everything so the barest sound (vco) came out. I ended up with the setup as shown in the image and feed it with a constant c3.

To be honest, I got enormously puzzled by what I thought was some kind of volume gating and didn’t understand why. The thing was that I had ‘accidentally’ triggered the arp in my previous ‘fooling around’ session and it was playing tricks on me.

So now I’m looking at the vco wave and mix parameter. If I put it all the way to the right I’m getting the expected squarish wave and turning it to the left seems to add a saw to the square. However it never seems to become a full saw. I’ve added a picture of the wave I’m getting when the knob is turned full left. Is this normal ?

Then I wanted to be sure that the dco was never heard unless the sub-oscillator was set to the appropriate setting. Is this also correct ?

Turning on the fuzz is quite nice but it instantly overdrives everything to square wave land making it sometimes a tad gimmicky to my taste. Lowering the cut-off gets some nicer timbre because the input to the fuzz is lowered and it got me wishing for a drive parameter for it. Or even have it post-vca, I think it would make it probably more versatile.

Finally, is there a way to get the glide to be only effective when playing legato ? I thought I had seen something like that but I can’t find it again.

Thanks a bunch and congrats once again Olivier, this is an amazing piece of kit.

/M

#2

Your “bare sound” setup is correct.

Your “mixed square” waveform is not normal. When the “Mix” knob is turned to the left, you should get a pure sawtooth. Maybe the middle pin of the “mix” pot is incorrectly soldered?

Not sure what you mean about the DCO / sub-oscillator. In addition to the main VCO, there are 3 extra additional audio sources which can be mixed: DCO ; Sub at -1 octave ; Sub at -2 octaves ; and their level is controlled by the “Sub level” knob.

Controlling the fuzz level or patching post VCA are possible mods.

#3

Hi Olivier,

Thanks for the informations… And I’ll check for a possible issue with the mix pot.

Marc.

#4

shouldn’t the top left ‘fm’ knob be set fully CCW since you don’t want to be modulating the VCO at all with the DCO?

#5

+1 cookie for defenestration

#6

Somehow ‘cookie’ and ‘defenestration’ in the same sentence confuses the hell out of me :slight_smile:

#7

I decide to ask here not to create another topic hope someone look at it.

When I set the knobs and switches exactly like in the photo. There is no sound coming out unless I switched VCF Mode switch up to HP then I get sound.

Is this normal ? I am thinking that VCF Mode switch is doing exact opposite what it has supposed to do ?

Thanks in advance

#8

bad soldering work around the switch (or bad connections between the 2 boards)
OR
wrong switch if you ordered the parts on your own.

#9

@MicMicman It was a kit from MI so I can eliminate wrong part option.

I will check my soldering around the switch. How can I identify bad connections between two boards ?

#10

just disconnect the 2 boards and clean the headers with a toothbrush - if your working environment wasn’t very clean (quite normal after a soldering marathon), there may be some small metallic particle stuck in there that creates a short.