MOTM

>Yeah it's tough to talk/type about this stuff.
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>I personally feel you need SOME freedom in setting the pitches. For me, you
>can already get pretty decent approximations of harmonic instruments using a
>bunch of sawtooth VCOs sync'd together. But where analog falls short is in
>the 'enharmonic' sounds, which the vast majority of natural sounds are. You
>end up either filtering white noise-very crude---or using the sidebands that
>a ring modulator gives you, which has a very particular, identifiable sound.
>There HAS to be another way! Additive goes directly for that, but it's a
>bear to control.
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>This subject has been bothering me for quite some time.

This was my main frustration with the K5, you couldn't retune the overtones
to enharmonic ratios.

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