The main use for soft sync is locking two or more oscillators to a
master frequency. If you have oscillators without softsync tuned
together they will always be "beating" against each other. Maybe the
beat might be slow but it's there. Soft sync eliminates the beating
between oscillators. To use it first tune the oscillators together.
Then establish one oscillator as the master and patch its sawtooth to
the sync inputs of the others. A little fine tuning may be necessary
after sync'ing to eliminate the jerky beating from an osc that's
'almost' locked. The soft sync will only lock the frequency when the
relative frequencies are simple ratios.
Soft sync is for creating new tones based on multiple oscillators when
you *don't* want the chorusing of beat frequencies. The result is
tighter and cleaner.
Hard sync on the other hand forces the slave oscillator to start a new
cycle from the master oscillator regardless of the frequency
relationship. This can be accomplished on the Serge by feeding one DSG
pulse source into another DSG's trigger input. As long as the slave
DSG's cycle is shorter than the master's you've got a hard sync relation.
Best
John P.
jamescoplin wrote:
master frequency. If you have oscillators without softsync tuned
together they will always be "beating" against each other. Maybe the
beat might be slow but it's there. Soft sync eliminates the beating
between oscillators. To use it first tune the oscillators together.
Then establish one oscillator as the master and patch its sawtooth to
the sync inputs of the others. A little fine tuning may be necessary
after sync'ing to eliminate the jerky beating from an osc that's
'almost' locked. The soft sync will only lock the frequency when the
relative frequencies are simple ratios.
Soft sync is for creating new tones based on multiple oscillators when
you *don't* want the chorusing of beat frequencies. The result is
tighter and cleaner.
Hard sync on the other hand forces the slave oscillator to start a new
cycle from the master oscillator regardless of the frequency
relationship. This can be accomplished on the Serge by feeding one DSG
pulse source into another DSG's trigger input. As long as the slave
DSG's cycle is shorter than the master's you've got a hard sync relation.
Best
John P.
jamescoplin wrote:
> from the recent discussion it appears that several of us have gotten
> on rex about wanting hard sync on the oscillators. i know i got a
> little over the top with that point when talking to rex about it
> after purchasing my system. it went something like:
>
> me - "hi rex, i think my osc are messed up because the sync isn't
> working"
>
> rex- "well they use soft sync instead of the hard sync you are
> probably used to. it a much more subtle effect."
>
> me - "i can't tell that it does anything!"
>
> rex - "i said it was subtle."
>
> me - "well, it's crap."
>
> or a reasonable facimile thereof. ;)
>
> so, does anyone have any use for the soft sync? i really can't tell
> that it does anything except make the osc "slightly" buzzier and not
> in a particularly useful way. kind of like using dsg as a lowpass
> filter kind of buzzy way. am i missing something? i hate to think how
> much i paid for that sync jack not to be using it! ;)
>
> james r. coplin
>
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