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Subject: Re: [motm] MOTM-650 and microtuning

From: Neil Bradley <nb@...>
Date: 2006-10-30

> Anyone tried the tuning feature of the 650?
> I read in the synthesizers.com faq that if you need more than about
> 36 tones per octave,
> the tuning will be off due to the nature of analog oscillator
> tracking, and that you should use a digital synthesizer..
> Is this the case with MOTM too?

The short answer is no.

The longer answer is there are a possible 514 steps per octave in a 1V/Oct
scale, and I believe the laser trimmed DAC Paul used had less than a half
a bit of precision error.

-->Neil

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