Tom G.'s site down - anyone know why?

[Graham Wignall]

tomg wrote:

> 
> How Nice.
> 
> -tg
Tom,

Welcome back! I don't want to start a flame war here, but what are we
actually trying to achieve here anyway? I have a sample based synth
which will produce the purest sine, square, saw and triangles you ever
saw. Rock steady, perfect pitch, no drift.

I'm starting to homebrew mods to a FatMan (including a couple of extra
VCOs and LFOs) because I want something that *is* slightly dodgy - a
rough waveform, non-linearities across the keyboard range and all that
stuff add character to the instrument I'm building - in fact, IMHO, they
define it - otherwise I'd stick with the digital sample thing.

As to temperature drift, well I'll have to wait and see. I don't take it
out gigging, so it won't see massive changes in ambient temperature, and
if it drifts as it warms itself up, then I may have to go back and
revise the design.

Isn't that what it's all about? Otherwise, someone will come up with the
'perfect' VCO/VCF/VCA/whatever and we'll all be reduced to kit
builders...

I was looking forward to taking some of Tom's stuff and using it in my
own system - adapting it if it didn't work for me. To my mind, it's far
better to start with something that *mostly* works and adapt rather than
start from scratch or clone something outright - it's been too many
years out of electronics school for the former and the latter's
downright dull.

Hopefully I should be contributing my own VCO/LFO designs shortly, based
on the much maligned 8038. So the purists may hate it and scoff, but if
it sounds good in my system, I don't care. 

Keep it up, Tom

Graham