asleep at the wheel..

[Blandon Ray]

Batz Goodfortune wrote:

> It's one way of doing filter sweeps for example. A great many synths (way
> too many) because  of their corner cutting nature -as mentioned in a
> previous post about LFOs in poly synths- will restart the LFO on every
> key-on event. Subsequently even if your LFO is running @ 0.01Hz, it will
> behave more like an envelope than an LFO unless the key is held constantly.
> Which means you can't do filter sweeps or even rippling timbres across a
> sequence of events. Only during the transient of a single note. Does that
> make sense to you?

The SCI Multi-Trak has a very strange implementation of this... the LFOs are
apparently generated in software, and the machine is multitimbral, so you can have
two or more voices playing patches with different LFO rates. However, in
monotimbral mode, all six LFOs run in sync with each other. Yecch.

blandon