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Am I wrong on this or did someone state that the "source of
uncertainty" works by feeding noise into a S&H and mixing a portion of
the S&H output back into the input.  This is the "correlation" knob
and the more feedback the less of a step that occurs when the S&H is
clocked.  Right?  As such, I don't see how you can "split up" these
modules if this features is to be included.  It seems like we end up
with several modules with the same basic circuitry inside and so we
pay for the expensive AD/DA converters several times over.

Of the features talked about thus far, I think the high resolution
converters and multiple outputs are very desirable.  (Seems like 4
outputs is about right.)  If the big selling point is "no droop" on
the S&H outputs it seems very desirable that we can process pitch CVs
in addition to noise sources.

Other features that seem useful to me are the clock polarity switch
and the correlation knob to feed some of the output back to the input.
 Could a second switch choose which S&H output the feedback comes
from?  (Say, first tap or last tap.  Or if we end up with 3 outputs, a
3 position switch could select between the three taps?)  Would it make
much difference which tap the feedback comes from?

Most people seem to think the noise source does not needed to be
included in this module.  I think I agree.  Seems like a really high
quality S&H with those few extras makes the most sense.

seth


--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Paul Haneberg <phaneber@o...> wrote:
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> My personal preference would be to split this thing up at this point.
> Make a noise source with multiple types of noise outputs including the 
> uncertainty source.
> Make a S&H ASR module and
> a quantizer module.
> I'd rather have several lower cost modules than a really expensive
single 
> module, and I like the idea of splitting things up and making them more 
> modular.
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> The alternative would possibly push this thing beyond 2U unless some
of the 
> functions were left out.
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> I also agree with Moe about noise sources.  If you take two sources
and pan 
> one left and one right it will sound different than one source panned 
> center.  Having equal energy distributions do not make two sources
sound the 
> same at a given moment in time.
> 
> Paul H.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@s...>
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> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:59 PM
> Subject: [motm] Another thought
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> >I caould do a $50 retail difference by only having 3 outputs, but
they are
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