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Subject: FW: [motm] Re: Pitch Shifter

From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
Date: 2005-01-03

The amplitude of the saw feeding the delay time CV determined the amount of the shift. I think. It was a long time ago; I'd have to wire it up again and try it. I did the same thing with a very old Korg digital delay back in the 80's, too. (Wow, was it really that long ago...? Is it really 2005...?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dallas Williams [mailto:the_beat_maker@...]
Sent: Thu 12/30/2004 8:54 PM
To: Tkacs, Ken
Cc:
Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Pitch Shifter



I think I understand what you mean. is that going from
a really tiny delay (milliseconds long) then slowing
it down in small increments via the downward shape of
the saw?

--- "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...> wrote:

> Way back in the 70's I used to get a pitch shift
> effect by driving an analog delay with a sawtooth
> control voltage. It's quite crude, and the saw needs
> to be pretty pure (not too hard with an MOTM
> oscillator driving it), and it has to be
> "positive-going" (back then we called 'inverted'
> sawtooths 'ramps' but that distinction seems to have
> faded with time and the terms are used
> interchangeably now). You could hear imperfections
> in it, but I thought it was kinda cool at the time.
>
> KAT
>


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