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Subject: RE: [motm] Osc Controller

From: Nathan Hunsicker <nate@...>
Date: 2000-03-16

Am I understanding corectly that a quantizer would only allow cv voltages
corresponding to the 12 tone scale? If so, wouldn't this make any type of
portamento sound more like running your fingers down a keyboard versus a
nice smooth sound? -Nate

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>Oh, I would ∗definitely∗ want a quantizer to be ∗defeatable!∗ But it's nice
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>I'm the first one to wave the flag for weird, sweepy, Theremin-style
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>electronic music. But the ability to 'find' intervals is desireable. Let's
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>face it---our VCOs respond to 1v/octave for a reason. (The octave, by any
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>other name, is a physically meaningful relationship that is found in most
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>(not all) musical cultures.)
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>-----Original Message-----
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>From: davevosh@... [mailto:davevosh@...]
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>Sent: Thursday, 16 March, 2000 12:46 PM
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>To: motm@onelist.com
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>Subject: Re: [motm] Osc Controller
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>my doepfer sequencer doesn`t have a quantizer built in. yes, "tuning" per se
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>can be difficult or time consuming but to have the possibilities available
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>for other tunings, etc. is worth the trade off.
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