At 1:59 AM +0000 2002/02/19, sucrosemusic wrote:
>Another thing I worry about (thought I don't have a miniwave) is the
>relative low resolution of the 8-bit setup in the miniwave... is 255
>levels enough to quanitize accurately, in a chromatic way? Or is it
>just better for octave-octave-octave stuff? Just curious what your
>experiences are, and, of course, if there are any "official" plans
>for a quantizer. I agree that using a MV just for quantizing is
>probably a waste.
In my experiences, the MW is more than adequate as a quantizer. I've
been using a MW as a quantizer for almost a month now and despite the
8 bit math saying otherwise, I haven't yet found an instance where
the slight error was objectionable nor even noticeable. If you plan
to use your MOTM as a digital accurate reference oscillator, then the
quantizing error will be noticeable as a slow beating on some notes
(some notes beat more than others). But in actual use as an analogue
synth (with three oscillators tracking each other, LFOs plugged into
the FM and PWM inputs, and a delay unit adding a final chorus), a few
cents of quantizing error is irrelevant.