[sdiy] 1v/Oct CV 'standards'?

[Tom Arnold]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:35:16PM +0000, Justin Owen wrote:
> For a VCO that  uses 1 volt per octave tuning is there a 'standard' (i.e. most widely used) for what note (or how many Hertz) 1 volt would/should be?
> 

I asked this question a while back and got several answers but no concensus
it seems.

Midi note 0 theoretically should be 8.17hz.  I found with my VCOs at the
time that I got a usable 8 octave range so tuning them for 0volts = 8.17hz
didn't give me much overall range.  I finally decided for those VCOs to tune
0volt = 32.70hz.  When I finally assemble the MOTM boards I got, I will
definatly start at 0v=8.17hz=C0 for those.

Most synths 0volts=C, a notable exception is Moog where 0volts=F.

Here's a quick reference:
http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/notefreq.htm

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