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RE: [AN1x] OSC. Drift

2005-03-04 by Ed Edwards

Now you've gone and dipped into the pool of the unresearched.
How do analog oscillators drift, and where do we find that data?

The worstest thing about random is that computers don't like random.
IIRC, the AN1x doesn't have a random function for any parameter.

I've tried this idea with a couple of samplers.
It can be pretty interesting if there is a random function.
If not, it can sound a lot like looping.

One idea is to map velocity or key to change the envelope generator in some way.
Sort of pseudo-random will result.

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> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:50 PM
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> I would like to use the Free EG to make the fine tuning of each
> oscillator drift independently.  Does anyone know what a graph of
> real oscillator drift would typically look like? (I'm sure it varies
> from VCO to VCO.) Is it pretty much sinusoidal with just a few
> eccentricities or is it more "squiggly"/random than that? (I'm
> guessing that I should use a full 12 or 18 second free EG length.)
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