Wavetables and a load of bull

[Dr S Grainger]

Dear All,

	Some good healthy debate about wavetables - two questions
	seem to need answering:-

	1.	Why do it ?
	2.	What about aliasing ?

	For me it gives the possibility of extremely interesting waveforms
	polyphonicaly with zero tuning problems (if done with a phase-
	accumulating oscillator) Also gives the possibility of wavecycling
	(a la PPG et al) 'Realtime' modulation can be carried out with
	firmware (as with DCOs) as can hardsync (resetting the pitch
	accumulating registers and/or the waveforms)

	Aliasing, although a distinct possibility for more harmonically rich
	waveforms can be made part of the sound see:-

	http://www.imuse.com/BirthVS.html

	On a different tangent - had some private mails with JH about
	cloning the Taurus I pedals. Has anyone done this ? How integral
	to their sound are linear oscillators to give a fixed beat rate ?
	I've seen the mutated Taurus I filter on TomG's site and also
	wondered about transistor matching in the ladder network the
	T I (nothing to do with A.S.) service manual mentions this and
	it would seem necessary given the dc coupling to the differential
	buffer stage (mmm...a CA3080 I see !!!)

	Steve G