Thursday, December 14, 2006
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The controls sounded quite bit quantized to me.
ReplyDeleteare the digital control signals really only 8bit resolution? if so that's disappointing - if there's 0-10v controls signals you've got 40mV steps - that's gonna be audible if sweeping the control...
ReplyDeletewhat a crappy, annoying demo - half of it sounds like 60 cycle hum. I can get that with an amp, a cable and my fatty little finger.
ReplyDeletedid I mention my dog has really bad gas tonight? my god it is hideous. I've never had a cat, do they do this too?
Wanna say that in case of filter sweeps by envelope generators, the only way to get smoothly sweeping resonance frequency is to have a linear filter.
ReplyDeleteIf the filter is allowed to saturate, the input wave will affect the resonance and cause it to lock to the harmonics of the input wave. The more you saturate, the more this happens.
It has nothing to do with control resolution. Until now I was under the impression that everybody thought it's a desirable property of an analog filter.
I haven't seen a little phatty live, but I'd imagine that if you remove the oscillators and just listen to the self-oscillating filter, you'll get a smooth glide. ;)
As for humm, have to agree that the guy should have actually tried to get some beautiful sounds out of the thing.
The control signals are *not* 8-bit resolution; they're not even digital. When you sweep the controls you get a continuous analog sweep. Same with the envelopes which are discrete transistor-based analogue envelopes.
ReplyDeleteThis demo sounds crappy and like it has "zipper noise" because the demonstrator whacked the Overload all the way to maximum and then left it there through the entire demo! NOT the best way to showcase the sounds of the synth. The Overload control will just about self-oscillate at its max setting and gets very very grungy... which can be fun for certain things but totally kills any attempt to show off the subtleties of the oscillator waveforms or filter response. I should do an LP demo... it helps to know what you are demonstrating.
so it does have analog control voltages - you figure it would since it's got an analog audio signal path. that's good to hear. I agree with comment about the filter being overdriven from the beginning of the demo when it was cranked up. Since that's going to squash the resonance peaks as it distorts the waveform and possibly starts to self oscillate in it's own way that basically discounts any evaluation of the response of the filter cutoff control thereafter.
ReplyDelete"Well the overload "IS the money setting" apparently."
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree... but unless phrapping hellnoize is the sound you want (and it does it well), the "money setting" sounds better around 2 or 3 o'clock where you can still get some subtlety out of the filter response.
The gearwire guys are clueless. Sad, really.
ReplyDeleteWhen a control is being operated the pot is controling the circuit directly with no quantizing...that's Moog's "RAC".
When a patch is stored, each parameter value is quantized to one of 4095 positions.