[sdiy] Novation peak NCOs

[Eric Brombaugh]

This is an excellent point, and something that is often overlooked when designing digital oscillators. Given that you're likely generating a signal that's near 0dBfs and will almost certainly "suffer" from additional downstream processing, having some crud that's > 60-70dB down is not going to be nearly as much of a problem as it might be if you were working with a more general-purpose audio signal with much greater dynamic range that's going straight to the speakers.

Eric

On Apr 23, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Richie Burnett wrote:

> It's interesting the limitations of using just a single bit that Brian mentioned. All I can think is that the presence of a bit of low-level noise, limit cycles and distortion are not really inhibiting for the application of generating hot raw oscillator signals that will subsequently be put through noisy analogue filters and VCAs anyway!?!?