[sdiy] Boogey jitter

[JH.]

> > No need to eat your hat, but once you play a single-VCO synth into
> > some "ambience" (echo, reverb), the tone beats "against itself" and
comes
> > alive. Works great with a CS-50, for instance.
>
> Yes, however what you just described is not a valid theorem of the
> magical warmth of a 901 VCO. I tought you had allready beaten Kevin
> to death at AH on this! :-)

I have no theorem of the 901, or of magic. (The only magic I enjoy is
reading Harry Potter, or Anne Rice)
I don't think I've written that much about the 901 on AH, either.
How could I - I have never played one.


> > *But* - this cannot be stressed enough! - I don't rely on the VCO's own
> > irregularities for this. They may be part of it, but the real fun starts
> > when
> > you apply vibrato by aftertouch, and change the vibrato depth all the
time
> > by
> > changing the pressure you apply with your finger. Then, in the echo
process,
> > the beating changes all the time. It's not regular, and you even have
some
> > "bio feedback" in that you react to the beating that comes from some
> > 100 milliseconds before (ot whatever your delay time is).
>
> Why stress something that has zero thing to do with Kevins jitter claim?
> Dont say that you have give Kevin right in his claim???

I don't care much for Lightner's claims. Just read what he says about low
PSU voltages and sound - it's totally ridiculous. I don't agree or
disagree with him - I don't take him for serious on that matter.

Personally I'm convinced that
a) Different VCOs have different amount and type of built-in modulation.
b) If analysed properly, this could be emulated perfectly with a "perfect"
    VCO, and external modulation sources.
c) For my needs, expressive means of manually controlled modulation
    are more important than the build-in modulations.

I tried to explain the importance [to me] of (c) with my aftertouch example.
I'm _slightly_ interested in research on (a), leading to (b), but my life
doesn't depend on it. It would be fairly interesting, yes.


JH.