[sdiy] WTB: Paia EKx40

[Harry Bissell Jr]

LOL... this reminds me of an Electronic Engineering
Times "Immortal Works" winning caption...

"This is the creative engineering department, Kid...
its where we turn bugs into FEATURES !!!"

IMHO a sine wave has NO harmonics, a VCO has no drift
or jitter, sawtooth and pulse waves have infinite
(fast) rise (and or fall) times.

Anything else is just a parody of perfection !

(flaimsuit on)

H^) harry



> I remeber the CFR Tau VCO docs specifically stating
> that jitter was a good
> thing, being more "natural" sounding, and showing a
> diagram of their
> intentionally added jitter (maybe they just couldn't
> get the noise out of
> their sawtooth discharge threshold, and made it a
> selling point?). I do not
> remember anything special about the sound... just
> another VCO...
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> - Gene
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf
> Of Tim Parkhurst
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:08 PM
> To: 'prototek'; synth diy
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] WTB: Paia EKx40
> 
> 
> On a related tangent, just what would make one VCO
> sound better than
> another? I can't imagine there would be THAT much
> difference in the raw
> sound from the VCO unless the waveforms were
> noticeably distorted,
> non-linear, or otherwise buggered up. Basically, I
> would think a saw wave
> would sound like a saw wave, a square like a square,
> etc., and any audible
> difference would also be apparent on a scope. Any
> thoughts, comments on
> this? 
> 
> 
> Tim (noticeably distorted) Servo
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -
> Albert Einstein
>