[sdiy] Moogey jitter

Antti Huovilainen ajhuovil at cc.hut.fi
Tue Apr 18 12:34:06 CEST 2006


On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, harrybissell wrote:

> Ditto for those with discrete amplifiers. Follow a VCO with an opamp
> and you cannot hear a reset faster than the slew rate. I've seen
> cases where this was the limiting factor.

Actually it does make a measurable difference in some synths. Notably, 
Moog Taurus has ~25 us reset time (according to service manual). This 
corresponds to comb filtering at mostly ultrasonic frequencies but there 
is some attenuation below 20khz already.

Antti

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