Lin detune,MS20 Core,Polysix/Trident

[Haible Juergen]

	>>   After a one hour warm-up, I was able to attain a 41-second beat
period,
	>> this period held more or less for each octave.
	>
	>Call me ignorant - but what's the use of beat periods that long?
	>Wouldn't that sound almost as boring as no beating at all, i.e.
using
	>two identical frequencies (just like adding two identical, gasp,
samples)?
	>
	>I really do appreciate the beauty of slow beating, but I'd expect
	>everything beyond, say, 10 or 15 seconds to be barely noticable,
because
	>any movement would be very (too?) slow.
	>Or am I missing something here?

I think this test just shows the quality of separation of the VCOs - the
proove
that it's "beyond good and bad" in terms of interlock. Thank you very much
for doing this, Crow !

The lin detune effect as I appreciate it on the JH-4 (which is the only
synth
of that kind I have for close study) is most interesting when it's in the
couple
of seconds range. Which raises the question how much (or the contrary) of
lin detune Crow's, or any individual trident, actally has. Keep in mind that
this nothing but a weird theory of mine, after all. Could it be that you
have compensated for a linear offset with ordinary detune in the opposite
direction for this test ?

It's clear that the test was to try the amount of (or absence of) soft sync.
A test to detect the amount of both detuning mechanisms would be more
complicated. With linear detune *only*, you'd have constant beat rate.
With expo detune *only*, you'd have the beat rate doubling for each
octave. So it might be possible (but difficult) to deduct both ingredients
from the linear combination, separating the constant term (= lin detune)
and the linear term (= expo detune).

But I won't keep you occupied with stupid tests like that. I for one
have not even found the time to print out - you know what.
And I wanted to prototype my new version of the VCO core last
night, but simply fell asleep before I started. Maybe tonight.

BTW, there are so many factors to create that lively sound of classic
analogues. A few days ago I discovered a different one. But that's
good for an extra mail, and so non-technical that it will be cc'ed
to Analogue Heaven as well (;->)

JH.