[sdiy] Choosing a DAC

[Cornutt, David K]

From: Louis van Dompselaar [mailto:louis at dompselaar.org] 

>But the fact is (and that is what Tom is implying I think) that there
is plenty of synth hardware out there 
>(including midi-cv and quantizers) that is perfectly in tune with 5, 6
or 8-bit DACs.  So somehow even these old 
>DACs can keep a perfect tune.

Grant you that, but at some point you have to consider pitch bend.  If
you ever want to
receive MIDI pitch wheel messages, you're going to need a wider DAC for
that anyway.
Maybe for a sequencer that's not a consideration.  But if you do have to
process
pitch bend, it makes more sense to me to just use a wider DAC to begin
with and
do pitch bend and portamento in the digital domain.