[sdiy] Imperfect VCO

Grant Richter grichter at asapnet.net
Thu Jul 31 17:32:19 CEST 2003


>> I could also just cop out and buy another Miniwave from Blacet and make
>> some custom EPROMS ;-)
>> 
> no offense to Blacet and Richter. my Miniwave is my 3rd favorite module
> after my Synthacon dual VCF, and my AD633 ringmod. If I was Bill Gates rich
> I would not hesitate to buy 5 more of these wonderfull wave factories.

Thank you Michael!

The Mini-Wave is designed to act as a general purpose non-linear transfer
function generator. Being a hybrid analog/digital unit it adds quantization
noise, which can sound loud when you are only swinging a couple of bits (low
input amplitude).

By this time (7 years on) I had hoped to make a 16 bit in, 16 bit out unit,
which would have solved the quantization noise issue. But 16 bit megasample
converters are still too expensive.



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