[sdiy] Sample&Hold thoughts

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In a message dated 3/13/01 2:04:39 PM Central Standard Time, 
Plutonique9 at symbiocom.com writes:

> I'd like to hear the effect of using an audio source, like a drum 
>  loop or a voice for example, as a "sample" source for the S&H. You 
>  know, in place of where white noise or an LFO is usually used.
>  Now if you clocked the S&H at a high enough rate, anywhere between 
>  4khz up to 48khz, or something, what you would hear at the output of 
>  the S&H would be the audio source, drum loop or whatever, the only 
>  difference would be that you could change the fidelity in real time 
>  over an extremely wide range by changing the clock rate, right?

 Greetings,
 The Waldorf Microwave XT has a S&H filter that allows you to vary the 
clocking rate. At lower rates the sound just kind of "breaks up" due to the 
lower resolution. I haven't had much success coming up with any interesting 
sounds using this filter... I guess more experimentation is needed...  

 Now that I think of it, the XT *does* have an external audio input though!  
Hmm....

   : )  
 Andrew Sanchez