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Subject: RE: [motm] Interest in a MOTM-102 module?

From: "Adam Schabtach" <adam@...>
Date: 2005-12-30

I use microtonal scales, so yes, my input would be pre-quantized. It would
be fun to feed it pitch voltages so you could clock them through to create
canon-like effects.

--Adam
(one of those non-equal-tempered weirdos. Blame Robert Rich--he corrupted
me.)

> I use a Wiard/Blacet Miniwave for quantizing. It is 8-bit but it works
> fine for 12-note chromatic scales. That's all we're talking about here
> with the quantizer choices limited to major/minor. You would need more
> bits for microtonal scales I suppose. If you're talking about
> non-quantized outputs, it doesn't matter unless your input is already
> quantized, which would not be the usual case.
>
> -Richard Brewster
>
> Adam Schabtach wrote:
>
> >>b) the S&H is a cascaded, 4-channel "shift register" type with
> ∗infinite∗
> >>hold
> >>time/zero droop (it's 12-bit digitized).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Is that adequate for digitizing pitch-control voltages?
> >
> >--Adam
> >
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