Any Paia 9700 experience?

Haible Juergen Juergen.Haible at nbgm.siemens.de
Mon Mar 6 12:33:02 CET 2000


	> Kudos to John Simonton for embracing the V/oct standard
	> (I know JH's ears will be burning now... :^))

Harry, I know it was a joke, but anyway, just to clarify things:

Approx. 95% of my own stuff is V/Oct.
Everything I do for MOTM is V/Oct.

I prefer V/Hz for *polyphonic* synths, especially when an autotune 
function is to be avoided. (I can't think of any commercial V/Oct 
polysynth that had neither autotune nor individual tune knobs for each 
VCO. There were a couple of V/Hz polysynths that managed to do this,
at least.)

V/Hz has some benefits for monophonic synths as well (linear
detuning), but you can perfectly emulate this effect on V/Oct 
with the capacitive divider I proposed some years ago.

V/Hz and V/Oct is not an "exclusive or". There are good arguments
to make both options available in modular VCOs. (Most expo converters
provide an internal A/Hz summing node for free.) 

JH.





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