[sdiy] Poly analog synths needing multiple signal paths?

Travis Thatcher recompas at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 20:27:20 CEST 2013


I believe that would be considered a paraphonic synth?  True polyphony
means a full architecture for each voice - classically vco-vcf-vca.

-T

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
> I've read that polyphonic analog synths need a complete, separate signal path for each note of polyphony. I've never entirely understood why. I would think that you could have multiple oscillators, each getting its own CV, feed them into a mixer, then from there to filtering etc.  Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!
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