[sdiy] Moog SL-8

[rsdio at audiobanshee.com]

On Apr 13, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Michael Zacherl <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info> wrote:
> On 13.Apr 2017, at 20:44 , S Ridley <spridley1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There was also the Moog SL-8, which never went into production, a 1 DCO/voice poly boasting a "variable harmonic multiplier" (VHM) with detuning and sync sweep effects. 
> 
> Apparently this was in 1983 - hard times for a new polyphonic analogue synth. ;)
> http://www.moogarchives.com/insl8.htm
> 
> dead concept, so to speak.

Gotta love that dot matrix press release.


I'll bite:

1) Are we sure that this was a DCO design and not a VCO? Even the Prophet 5 with its digitally controlled oscillators was not based on DCO tech. I realize that DCO is a literal acronymization of Moog's "digitally controlled oscillators," but the modern sense of the DCO acronym implies hard frequency lock.

2) Does anyone else think that LFO noise (sample and hold) is way more useful than square? I've never heard a piece of music effectively use square LFO without sounding like a siren or something else very non-musical.

3) How is 1.2V/oct "over-tracking?" That would seem like under-tracking to me, since 1V would produce less than an octave. Did Moog mean to say 1.2 octaves per Volt?

4) Two stereo choruses!!

5) Three sequencers!!!