[sdiy] Quantizer project.. incoming CV's switching point to change to quantized output CV's ...

Tom Wiltshire tom at electricdruid.net
Wed Jul 7 23:44:39 CEST 2021


> On 7 Jul 2021, at 21:38, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org> wrote:
> 
> Jay Schwichtenberg via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>> skrev:
> Very simple solution for this.
> 
> Just like for a regular VCO have a course and fine tune DAC, maybe 12-14 
> bits for the course and 8-10 bits for the fine. Just make sure they are 
> decent DACs, especially that they are linear.
> 
> Not only linear, but super precise  -  the 14-bit coarse DAC would need to have a precision corresponding to 24-bit resolution. Would you find such a product?
> 
> I always tend to lean towards using PWM or R-2R for the lowest bits of such hybrid CV DACs, but optimal solutions may vary…

You wouldn’t need such extreme precision if you had feedback from the final pitch output to the quantizer that is generating this CV. You’d hen have an “autotune” system that was capable of microtonal playing, and all it would need would be an accurate way to measure the incoming pitch, and a load of big look-up tables of all the scales it could play.

But again…at this point it’s just screaming DIGITAL!

Tom
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