[sdiy] Chopper circuits for audio and CV?

[Roman Sowa]

That was covered on this list inside out. There were ideas for using 
band shifting aka AM, and also pulse displacement technique known from 
RC toys, and I'm nearly sure TDM was also discussed few times. Everytime 
the outcome was: it's easier to do in digital and results of doing it in 
analog are far from satisfactory, not to mention insane complexity of 
the circuit.

Of all methods discussed so far TDM seems like most natural and easiest 
to do. Done in every polysynth known to mankind in terms of CV, but for 
audio - that could get tricky. You'd need sample&hold circuits able to 
track and settle in less than 1us and still expect a lot of noise and 
possibly distortion. And that's for mere 48ksps of audio channel.
No need for separate clock cable, you can regenerate clock from TDM 
signal. Might even add some pattern to it to mark synchronization of 16 
channels.

Why not use something like ADAT instead?

Roman

W dniu 2021-06-02 o 09:58, cheater cheater via Synth-diy pisze:
> Hi all, I was wondering if anyone ever tried using a chopper circuit
> to put 16 voices of full bandwidth audio over one 1/4" cable. Also,
> the same thing goes for CV. Is that a feasible use case? What are the
> biggest problems that could be encountered here? I assume that the
> chopper clock can be distributed separately using a 50 ohm terminated
> distribution.
> 
> Thanks
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