[sdiy] Analog polyphony question

[Dr Strangelove]

That actually sounds pretty interesting.  I think with LC oscs you could 
have all sorts of ways to supply voltage to the LC oscs, perhaps creating 
interesting dynamics.  Do LC oscs have a decay time inherant to their 
design?

         -=<Jonathan Pratt>=-
       (Phdinfunk at hotmail.com)




>From: jhaible at t-online.de
>To: Dr Strangelove <phdinfunk at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Analog polyphony question
>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:32:59 +0200 (MEST)
>
> > Does anyone know if any organs were ever made that had an
> > LC oscillator per
> > key?
>
>Early Korg Ensembles had one Thyristor oscillator per key.
>
>A workmate of mine said he had once started building an organ
>with one LC oscillator per key *and* *harmonic*.
>Each oscillator was one transistor and the LC components.
>A key would gate any number of selected overtones by simply
>switching on the supply voltage for the individual oscillators.
>The idea was that each harmonic would find its own way to
>start oscillating, so the sound would built up in a "natural"
>way (whatever this means - he spoke of emulating a pipe organ).
>He never finished the project ...
>
>JH.


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