[sdiy] Interesting article on top octave generators.

[Tim]

“TOGs have everything but the kitchen sync.”

“TOGs are dogs.”

“Give me TOGs or give me death (or give me twelve individually tuned oscillators with a series of dividers and before you know it I’ve built a bad copy of a 70’s home organ)!”

I’ve got the writers room working on some others, but they’ve all got egg nog hangovers so it’s going slowly. 


Tim (nog grog) Servo


Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

> On Dec 27, 2024, at 10:44 AM, Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 26, 2024, at 11:35 PM, Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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