sync problems:soft

[Mark Grocholski]

I beleive soft sync is when two VCO's are at the exact same frequency
and in phase with eachother. Like what happens to the Fat Man when the
offset is too small, they sound like only one OSC. The only point to
this is when they are producing different waveforms.

Mark


Julian Higginson wrote:
> 
> Lucas A Heckman wrote:
> >
> > My understanding of sync has brought me to a dead end with my project.
> > If I'm syncing VCO #2 with VCO #1, I should think VCO #1's CV should also
> > be applied to VCO #2.  If I want VCO #2 to be two octaves below VCO #1
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 3)  Is my conception of sync totally wrong?
> >
> well..... yes.
> I dont claim to be an expert on every form of osc sync known to man, but
> the most commonly found flavour, "hard" syncing, is produced by using
> the outpot of one oscillator to retrigger the other oscillator.
> 
> now, whenever osc 1 reaches the "start" of its cycle, osc 2 is reset to
> the start of its cycle. When the 2 oscillators are detuned from one
> another, you get osc 2's wavelength being some fraction of its original
> wavelength (same as osc 1's wavelength, ie same pitch) but the
> "waveform" will be something like 1.1 or 0.7 or 2.8 cycles of the
> original waveform. You use it in pretty much the same way as PWM. Its
> most effective when you try pitchbending osc2 while its synced to osc1,
> rather than just leave it set at whatever ratio.
> 
> Now, I've also heard of "soft" syncing. what the hell is this?
> anyone?
> 
> julian
> 
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