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[Gene Zumchak]

John,

    It should work fine, and it is my intent to add in some random variation
when I make my own digital VCO.

Gene



John Speth wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 07, 1999 8:36 PM, Gene Zumchak [SMTP:zumchak at cerg.com]
> wrote:
> >     Digital solutions have not eliminated analog approaches because they
> > tend to be too perfect, too canned.  One FM synthesis keyboard sounds
> > exactly the same as another of the same model.  But two Moogs never
> > sound alike because of the idiots turning the pots and the impreciseness
> > of the analog circuits (although they are getting better).  I remember
> > working with avant garde musicians in Moog's original studio in his shop
> > in Trumansburg, NY in the late sixties.  Sometimes by sheer luck they
> > would come up with some truly amazing sounds.  Every patch, every knob
> > location was carefully documented.  A week later when the patch was
> > duplicated, the sound was nowhere to be found.  It was lost forever.
> > That was and is the romance of analog synths.
> >
> >     Still, as a digital (microcomputer) person,  I have the urge to
> > control the analog pieces with digital.  There is a lot of interesting
>
> We consistently hear about how non-varying CPU controlled instruments
> sound.  So I'd like to field a question relating to this...
>
> Isn't there a way to model the variations of analog circuitry in a
> sufficiently powered and programmed CPU to "inject" it into the sound
> creation process in real time.  It seems to me that analog component
> variations can be characterized.  Then when the waveforms are calculated,
> the program could vary whatever parameters are needed to make it sound
> analog.
>
> Has anybody tried this?  Is there any good reasons why this can't work?
>
> JJS