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Subject: Re: Pitch to voltage converter

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb2@...>
Date: 2000-12-08

--- In motm@egroups.com, Nathan Alan Hunsicker <nate@e...> wrote:
> the only problem with that design is that it only works well with
pure
> waveforms one note at a time. sounds rich in harmonics like guitar
or
> other natural instruments confuse counters and give very
unpredictable
> results. try playing a guitar chord through a MOTM-700 and listen to
> what comes out

Well, sure! If you're asking for a circuit to pick apart a guitar
chord and analyze it, you're dreaming. The point of the comparator
circuit I spoke of is precisely to get rid of the harmonics of a
single note and just create a fundamental. Sorry, but monophonic is
still the best you can do without hex pickups, six separate analysis
circuits and all that crap. A wired fretboard would give you better
results, but then that's not pitch to CV anymore...

Moe