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Subject: Re: [motm] Re: more voltage sauce again

From: "sikorsky" <vulture.squadron@...>
Date: 2001-01-18

From: Dave Bradley <daveb2@...>

> Hmmm, I don't think so. The "1V/Oct" standard describes a rate of
> change in pitch, not an absolute voltage per frequency. There's no
> notion of "3.64V = A440". Different VCO designs will oscillate at
> different pitches with zero volts at the CV inputs. You depend on an
> arbitrary setting on the Coarse and Fine tune pots (which themselves
> are just CV sources going to the same CV inputs) to get you to a
> specific pitch.

ah, i was just thinking (specifically in terms of my #300 vcos) that as my
181 keyboard gives out a specific voltage when you press "A", then i could
duplicate that voltage for convenient tuning
but come to think of it, i think i missed the all important second portion
of the idea which was to also provide a tuning reference, which makes the
whole thing way too complicated and hence useless - damn
which is exactly what i bought a frequency counter for in the first place

cheers
paul b
(off to think up some other stupid idea)