Thanks to Chris, John and Blake for filling me up regarding CV
attenuation and CVI details. But as you can imagine, I still have some
questions left (ah...what a surprise):
According to the catalogue, the NTO and PCO have sync capabilties. As I
understand it, this is a dedicated “soft sync” input (allowing to
beating-free lock the sync’ed oscillator’s frequency to any
harmonic/fundamental/sub-harmonic of the syncing oscillator), but it
does not allow for “hard sync” (resetting the sync’ed oscillator’s
waveform whenever the synching oscillator has a reset, normally the
rising edge of a square wave is used as the reset signal, see
http://www.csounds.com/ezine/sync/ for a nice picture of hard sync).
I asked Rex about modifying the NTO/PCO for hard sync. He answered that
catalogue. In case you don't have it at hand, I'll quote:
[QUOTE]
Sub-Harmonic Series Generator (Divider). If a series of triggers are
applied to the TRIG IN jack that are faster than the total rise plus
fall time, then the unit will divide the incoming triggers by a whole
number.
[SNIP]
If the Slope Generators are set to audio frequencies, and the incoming
triggers are in the audio range, then the output will be the
sub-harmonic series. This is similar to the "hard sync" sound found in
other synthesizers (and is the main reason that it is not included on
Serge VCO's).
[UNQUOTE]
When I visited George Miller and his Blue Fun Station, we checked this
out, result: the sound of the subharmonic series is NOT similar to a
hard sync sound.
How is this? Did I miss something? Is the passage in the catalogue
wrong? Is asking this question bordering on being blasphemous ;-) ? And
am I alone with the wish to hear NTOs and PCOs hard-synced?
Confused regards
Jan-Hinnerk
attenuation and CVI details. But as you can imagine, I still have some
questions left (ah...what a surprise):
According to the catalogue, the NTO and PCO have sync capabilties. As I
understand it, this is a dedicated “soft sync” input (allowing to
beating-free lock the sync’ed oscillator’s frequency to any
harmonic/fundamental/sub-harmonic of the syncing oscillator), but it
does not allow for “hard sync” (resetting the sync’ed oscillator’s
waveform whenever the synching oscillator has a reset, normally the
rising edge of a square wave is used as the reset signal, see
http://www.csounds.com/ezine/sync/ for a nice picture of hard sync).
I asked Rex about modifying the NTO/PCO for hard sync. He answered that
> Hard sync is not available on the [PCO] or [NTO] -- you use the 'SIG"So he refered to the "how to hard-sync using a DSG" section of the STS
> input jack(s) on the [DSG]s to perform the operation.
catalogue. In case you don't have it at hand, I'll quote:
[QUOTE]
Sub-Harmonic Series Generator (Divider). If a series of triggers are
applied to the TRIG IN jack that are faster than the total rise plus
fall time, then the unit will divide the incoming triggers by a whole
number.
[SNIP]
If the Slope Generators are set to audio frequencies, and the incoming
triggers are in the audio range, then the output will be the
sub-harmonic series. This is similar to the "hard sync" sound found in
other synthesizers (and is the main reason that it is not included on
Serge VCO's).
[UNQUOTE]
When I visited George Miller and his Blue Fun Station, we checked this
out, result: the sound of the subharmonic series is NOT similar to a
hard sync sound.
How is this? Did I miss something? Is the passage in the catalogue
wrong? Is asking this question bordering on being blasphemous ;-) ? And
am I alone with the wish to hear NTOs and PCOs hard-synced?
Confused regards
Jan-Hinnerk