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Hi,

 

Well until the dreaded battery leak problem hit, my DK600 had been totally
reliable - never needed repairs.  I gigged it extensively too, so it had to
put up with all sorts of dodgy power points in local venues.  It always spot
on.

 

And IMO all the comments about quality of sound are correct- it really
is/was one of the best sounding of its era, particularly for any sounds
using its pulse width modulation features.  And what many people don't
realise, and I think contributed a lot to make that sound just a little
better, was that it had 3 LFOs per voice instead of 2 like most synths
have/had.  LFO's 1 and 2 were each assigned to one of the oscillators, and
you could get interesting effects by the fact that each oscillator had its
own LFO.  You could choose only to have LFO 1 active or LFO 2, or both.
These LFOs were used to affect the oscillator pitch, so you could easily get
nice thick sounds by have LFO operated detuning of only one of the 2
oscillators, much better than a fixed detuning of 1 oscillator against
another.  

 

LFO 3 was used to affect filter cutoff, or pulse width modulation amount,
and with the latter, you had the flexibility to affect only one or both
oscillators, again giving a better sense of movement within the overall
sound.

 

I'm still hoping to get it going again!

 

Nigel

 

 

 

 



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