EML 101 users owners help please

DrOctave · Post by **DrOctave** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:19 pm

ok i have an issue with my eml 101 it seemd someone has turned my Control mode 1 three position rotary switch on osc one and pulled off the wires from 3 parts of it. I see the wires clear and can fix this i just need a pic of the knob behind the panel to see as where what wire goes where. there is a brown , grey, and a green wire that came off.

Please anyone with an eml 101 help me fix my beast.

SMS303 · Post by **SMS303** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:28 pm

contact George Matson of MMM.
he's mister EML

DrOctave · Post by **DrOctave** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:30 pm

i did and am waiting to see if he will pull his panel off the case to take me a pic. but i cant hope on one person that has a busy life to do it. i was hopeing someone else here has on and can just snap me a quick nice pic so i can do this repair.

mmm · Post by **mmm** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:29 pm

OK. I opened it up.
CM1 rotary switch. From rear, detent mechanism to your right:
Using clock positions...

noon-12:00-Blue
1:00-Yellow
5:00-Green
7:00-Brown
8:00-Grey
10:00-White w/red stripe.

That's how mine is wired.

G

josaka · Post by **josaka** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:28 pm

ok.. just a simple basic question.. been trying to get my 101 to sequence.. where are you meant to start?

i have had some joy with trigger and modulation inputs..
the keyboard input looks the correct place but nothing has any effect from that..got odd ring mod sequences going.. and ticks

my model 500 also works in a very random way syncing the lfo to the S1/S2 cv/gate input.. its not really making normal east coast controllable melodies but it is in time and the notes respond to cv..

ANY help with the (supposedly)correct settings for 101/500 would be most welcome..

mmm · Post by **mmm** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:52 pm

josaka wrote:ok.. just a simple basic question.. been trying to get my 101 to sequence.. where are you meant to start?

i have had some joy with trigger and modulation inputs..
the keyboard input looks the correct place but nothing has any effect from that..got odd ring mod sequences going.. and ticks

my model 500 also works in a very random way syncing the lfo to the S1/S2 cv/gate input.. its not really making normal east coast controllable melodies but it is in time and the notes respond to cv..

ANY help with the (supposedly)correct settings for 101/500 would be most welcome..

I don't understand the question.
Sequence it on its own? Or, from a 1V/O sequenced CV source?

josaka · Post by **josaka** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:06 pm

control them... in any way

from a daw /sequencer..

the manufacturers method firstly..
or any people have found.

mmm · Post by **mmm** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:03 pm

josaka wrote:control them... in any way from a daw /sequencer..

the manufacturers method firstly..
or any people have found.

You won't be able to using the standard 1V/O "standard".

EML was a bunch of engineers. 12 semitones/Octave. They assigned 0.1V/semitone to control their VCOs. So, 1.2V/O.
ARP and Moog chose 1V/O. which boils down to 0.833V/semitone.

Any 1V/O CV source will be flat at 1 octave.

There's nothing magical about the slope. You're either going to either make a gain amp box with a 1.2 gain. Or, have a tech re-calibrate the exponential amps to accept a 1V/O CV.
That will screw up your keyboard tracking though. They generate 1.2V/O.

josaka · Post by **josaka** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 4:25 pm

I have 1.2 as well..
the keyboard has no response..
I was wondering people are are routing cv/gate..in/outs etc
and is there any "mode" or settings it needs to be set to?

I have a 1v 5u system and many 1.2v keyboards..

colorbars · Post by **colorbars** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 4:39 pm

Some clarification on how to control one of these without a keyboard would be great... I've got a 100 sans keyboard that I've sent some CV at different points... Got some sound but didn't really react as I thought it might

josaka · Post by **josaka** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 5:20 pm

from what I can gather the 101 is 3.3hz .. you need to cv/gate it from the keyboard(mine has little effect..not sure if it needs to be set specifically)
or from the trigger(which works well but triggers only 1 envelope?) and the Osc control(for cv) ..all in all it doesn't make life very straight forward.

josaka · Post by **josaka** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:27 pm

ok.. small update..
got it running pretty well.. just using a Korg SQ-1 set to 1.2hz/v..

inputting the CV to "osc control" and Gate to "trigger in".. that gets the signal to env 2..
..need to turn the the "Oscillator Control" "osc 4/Ext- Sampler" knob all the way to the left to the "osc 4/Ext"side ...it tracks ok over 2 octaves or so..
..true its not perfect but it opens it up to some greatness as well..

as a note/tip the sq-1 seems to not output quite enough juice from the internal sequencer(strange but it also may be me) I overcame(?!) this buy using slides which had some unusual but usable moments..

when I used the sq-1 via the computer usb it worked as you would expect..oddly.. still.. its given a new life to the king of quirk.

davidh · Post by **davidh** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:42 am

here I have a video where I sequence it with my René
hope it helps, ask question if any

[video][/video]

josaka · Post by **josaka** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:16 am

thats great.. got there myself eventually ..the trick is the osc 4/ext use..
the tuning is still wayward but great for stuff like in your video..

MUFF WIGGLER

MUFF WIGGLER

EML 101 users owners help please

EML 101 users owners help please