<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">But you stated that even using an external ADC, 10 bits would be not enough</span></div><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">and I could hear staircase effects on slowly moving input CV’s ?</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, absolutely. It depends on the range you’re trying to cover obviously. 10-bit across one octave will be ok. 10-bit across five octaves won’t work.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>But in general, for 5 octaves or so:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>12-bit is about at the limit of audibility, and 14-bit is the minimum for “quality”. If you can find good/cheap 16-bit convertors that give genuine 16-bit results, then that’s great.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>