[sdiy] more pitch shifter thoughts

[Grant Richter]

If you would like to hear the mis-behaving PLLs.

The bass chuggs are the decaying sinusoids on the step edges.

http://www.wiard.com/samples/WogglebugDemo.mp3


> From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at bredband.net>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:30:24 +0100 (CET)
> To: music.maker at gte.net
> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] more pitch shifter thoughts
> 
> From: Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] more pitch shifter thoughts
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:52:42 -0700
> Message-ID: <200501110252.j0B2qgV24971 at linux6.lan>
> 
>> Oh, you want to hear misbehaving?  Mine will be boring.  The range
>> of adjustment is more for making it behave, that is, minimize the
>> "bad" effects.  My idea was for the module to nearly perfectly track
>> a VCO and output perfect fifths and octaves of the fundamental
>> (input).  It does 1F, 1.5F, 2F, 3F, 4F, 6F and 12F.
>> 
>> http://www.musicsynthesizer.com/WoggleBug/WoggleBug.html
>> 
>> is probably more what you're interested in.  This is a purposefully
>> "misbehaved" 4046 PLL project with outputs tapped from some
>> interesting places.
> 
> Changing the PLL to be more loosly following, laging in tracking and ringing
> in
> responce could very well be really usefull in musical applications. For those
> eager to test such stuff out, using a 4046 and some divider is really a good
> place to start. The PLL as mechanism is underused IMHO. Both in their strict
> locking form as well as their looser "misbehaving" form. Maybe it's time to
> make a generic PLL module for people to play with?
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus