[sdiy] How Many Oscillators?

[Raymond Wilson]

Hi Michael
 
My two cents... In terms pf practicality I would suggest 3 per voice for a really fat sound. Since you will have (I assume) several voices you will be able to play chords with the separate voices but each voice will be awesome. I also suggest that you allow each oscillator to have its own volume control so that when you want to get a thin sound you can do that by turning up one oscillator per voice.
 
Have fun
 
Ray

 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Michael Boracci [mailto:mboracci at nfpcomputer.com]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 6:52 AM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: [sdiy] How Many Oscillators?



Dear Friends,
    I am planning a modular synthesizer and drawing some functional diagrams. In the process I am trying to determine how many oscillators would be practical. I have seen common synthesizers with two and three oscillators each with a few different choices of waveform. 
 
In terms of practicality versus sound shaping properties is it unrealistic to design around six or even eight oscillators per voice?
 
I would appreciate any feedback in terms of existing synthesizers out there that I might use as a reference.
 
Thanks,
Michael

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