Lin detune,MS20 Core,Polysix/Trident

[Christian Hofmann]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 06:15:39 EDT
WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/19/00 2:20:40 AM, chris at scp.de writes:
> 
> << 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? >>
> 
> Although the musical usefulness of a 40-second beat period is somewhat 
> questionable, there are a couple of reasons that we are interested in such a 
> long beating period:
> 
> 1.  If you can get two VCO's to consistently beat very, very slowly, then you 
> probably have eliminated any "unwanted sync" between the two VCO's.  This is 
> not always as easy as we would like.
> 
> 2.  If the beat period is not directly related to VCO pitch (as it is with 
> most exponential VCO's), then you can create very rich ensemble textures that 
> sound good no matter what key (or keys) you are playing.  In order for this 
> to work, the detuning offset must have a linear, not exponential, response.  
> If you can achieve this type of detuning and also have very long beat 
> periods, so much the better!

I see, so the 40 seconds is more a scientific check for other properties,
rather than aiming for it just for fun.
(The usefulness of constant beat rate aka lin detune was beyond any
doubt anyway)

Go on with it, you all have my blessing now... :-)
Christian