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RE: [motm] Re: freq shifter knob

2003-01-24 by John Loffink

Why do I get the distinct feeling that everyone who doesn't need the
huge knob has never used a frequency shifter?  Is this just my
imagination?

John Loffink
jloffink@... 

> John Loffink writes:
> >>You're thinking of this as a set it and forget it type setting,
which is
> just one mode.  The other is real time sweeps, wide ranging but with
fine
> control.<<
> 
> This knob size issue never seems to end.  I'm not sure why a frequency
> shifter
> needs more precision in adjustment or use than all the other modules
in a
> synth, especially the osc.  If the damn Bode didn't have a huge knob,
> nobody
> would have ever thought they needed one too.
> 
> As for real-time sweeps but with fine control, that sounds
contradictory.
> 
> -Elhardt
>

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