[sdiy] Interesting article on top octave generators.

[Donald Tillman]

On Dec 26, 2024, at 11:35 PM, Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:
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> Many years ago I pointed out on synth-diy that, plugging the numbers in, the TOG chips had roughly double the error of the Hammond tone wheels.  And that I found that disappointing; all this technological development for significantly less accuracy.  Of course that's because tonewheels have integers in both the numerator and denominator while TOG chips are stuck with just the denominator.

Oh, also... TOG chips have an unnatural synchronization between the notes.

So in my view, 12 simple tuned oscillators can be far superior to a TOG chip.  Which is exactly what they used to use before TOG chips.

(I'm expected Tim to come through with something like "TOGs are not the GOAT".)

  -- Don
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