VCF keyboard tracking

[huggermugger]

I don't see a keyboard tracking switch for the VCFs anywhere. Is keyboard tracking not possible?

[utdgrant]

I'm pretty sure the original Oberheim SEMs lacked keyboard tracking.

[huggermugger]

I imagine you're right. Sometimes Cherry's fidelity to original design seems a little arbitrary. It's such a basic thing, and there's a good amount of unused space on the VCF front panel.

It's at least doable on the SEM Bundle VM versions via CV control. And it's patchable in a DAW that can provide similar control.

[utdgrant]

I imagine you're right. Sometimes Cherry's fidelity to original design seems a little arbitrary. It's such a basic thing, and there's a good amount of unused space on the VCF front panel.

Even when Oberheim did implement keyboard tracking (OB-8, Tom Oberheim reissue SEM, etc), it tended to be a switch setting with only 0% or 100% tracking available. Obviously, the "Matrix" series allowed much finer-grained control of all CV parameters, through the....well, matrix.