[sdiy] Black Magic oscillator cans

[harrybissell]

Well ... if Magnus' $12.00 were cents, what would
$.02 be ???

(hej Magnus :^)

Answer... just perceptible to most musically trained ears. The average person can
discern about 5 cents (100th of a half step - 1200 to the octave)

This is for tones that are heard sequentially, alone.  There is no reference and
no beating
can be heard.

So the dead-on accuracy of the TOG (where we started from, remember?)
is probably just fine for almost all musical uses... but in context of other
(perfectly tuned)
instruments, the beating might make the imperfections noticible.

I might argue its probably better than almost ALL of our classic analog synths
(except those that ARE 'TOG' based  ;^)

H^) harry

Magnus Danielson wrote:

> From: "Theo" <t.hogers at home.nl>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Black Magic oscillator cans
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:31:30 +0200
>
> > Err, 100% whole tone, 50% semi
>
> Err... either of them is confusing for me...
>
> 100% a semi-note <=> 1% is a cent if we run in log-scale
> 100% a whole note <=> 1% is 2 cents if we run in log-scale
> 100% is the frequency <=> 1% is a 100th of in frequency if we run in lin-scale
>
> Personally I would NEVER use percent in anything but the linear scale, since
> otherwise some additive measure would be more appropriate (like +3 dB).
>
> For these small deviations, linear scale is probably best used anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus