[sdiy] modern AD/DA chips?

René Schmitz uzs159 at uni-bonn.de
Thu May 7 14:13:32 CEST 2009


Tom Arnold schrieb:
> By dead simple, I mean swatooth core with no waveshaping.   From Ian Fritz's
> site, http://home.comcast.net/~ijfritz/sy_cir2.htm.  The VCOs are very
> repeatable.  I hav stripped and ditched them as I was having problems with
> the VCOs hard syncing and the eventually fix was not pretty.  I know what to
> not do next time though...
> 
> Anyhow, in this particular case I was seeing very predictable errors on the CVs
> themselves.  When you should see, say, 4vdc on everything, and you see 3.996
> 4.000 and 4.004, and all that happens is the numbers stay the same but move
> around, yeah, thats your DAC :-)

AFAIK the Paia MCV8, uses a common DAC feeding Sample and Holds for its 
individual outputs. Not all of that error is due to the DAC alone...

Cheers,
  René








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