[sdiy] MIDI VCO Control - but not CV?

[harrybissell at wowway.com]

Hard-sync of a VCO would be VERY noticible...

A sine wave with even a tiny notch in it is extremely audible !!!

Midi sync would not have the speed to reset often enough...

If you did good MIDI to CV and added some sync it might work, but for that
effort a better MIDI to CV converter would be the best use of the time and
money IMHO...

H^) harry



On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:44:12 +0100, cheater cheater wrote
> Hi guys,
> Looking at the SDIY08 photos, I was wondering about MIDI2CV modules
> and the problems they're (normally) having.
> 
> Wouldn't it be *much* easier to make a midi2trigger module, that 
> would then hardsync the VCOs?
> 
> You wouldn't necessarily get bad jitter, since the MCUs work at 10s 
> of MHz nowadays... that's enough resolution even for the best 
> 'golden ears' 8^)
> 
> This could also mean easier microtunings (?)
> 
> Are there any popular/interesting VCO designs that wouldn't work well
> with being synced this way?
> 
> How extremely difficult would it be to make a filter track pitch 
> like this?
> 
> Having asked that, a filter's pitch is nowhere near as important as a
> VCO's, so it could probably use 'traditional' MIDI methods anyways :)
> 
> Just wondering what the synth diy gurus here think about this.
> 
> Cheers
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