[sdiy] Consider this DAC

[cheater cheater]

Damn, beat me to it :)

D.

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 15:15, Antti Huovilainen <ajhuovil at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Simon Brouwer wrote:
>
>> IMO that should even be accurate enough for any control voltage including
>> VCO pitch. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cent_%28music%29 humans
>> are only able to distinguish 5 to 6 cents in pitch difference at best. Let's
>> take 2.5
>
> Yes and no. Absolute JND (just noticieable difference) is around 3 cents
> last I recall. That means two pitches played after each other will sound
> equal if the pitch doesn't differ more than that. However, for pitches
> played together, it's much much less due to the beating. This becomes an
> issue when you detune the voices with the CV dac to, say, one octave
> difference.
>
> Antti
>
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