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Subject: RE: [motm] Re: freq shifter knob

From: "John Loffink" <jloffink@...>
Date: 2003-01-24

Why do I get the distinct feeling that everyone who doesn't need the
huge knob has never used a frequency shifter? Is this just my
imagination?

John Loffink
jloffink@...

> John Loffink writes:
> >>You're thinking of this as a set it and forget it type setting,
which is
> just one mode. The other is real time sweeps, wide ranging but with
fine
> control.<<
>
> This knob size issue never seems to end. I'm not sure why a frequency
> shifter
> needs more precision in adjustment or use than all the other modules
in a
> synth, especially the osc. If the damn Bode didn't have a huge knob,
> nobody
> would have ever thought they needed one too.
>
> As for real-time sweeps but with fine control, that sounds
contradictory.
>
> -Elhardt
>