[sdiy] Black Magic oscillator cans

[Tim Ressel]

Yo,

Makes sense. I should think drift is a bigger problem
than accuracy. It's always nice when the beastie stays
where its put...

--tr

--- harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 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
> 


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