MATRIXSYNTH: Polivoks LFO MOD


Friday, July 08, 2016

Polivoks LFO MOD


Published on Jul 8, 2016 The Outsider

"The Polivoks is hands down my favorite analog monosynth, even with its eccentricities and laughably horrible keyboard. One of the things that I thought really needed improvement was the LFO, specifically the LFO speed. As you'll see in the video, even at minimum the speed is quite fast. Thanks to my friend Egor, I was able to slow it down considerably by swapping out capacitor 7 on the LFO board with a higher value component. From the factory, C7 is 10uf. I tried out a 100uf cap and got the results shown in the video. Ideally, I should replace the LFO pot as well, as the right combination would give very slow minimum and very fast maximum LFO speeds, but I don't really feel like spending a ton of time trial & error parts matching... This quick fix is good enough for now."

1 comment:

  1. Hello, thanks so much for the tip- How many volts does the 100mf capacitor need to be? I'm looking at the schematics but can't find the details and want to order the exact right capacitor- Thanks so much

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