[sdiy] How Many Oscillators?

[James Patchell]

This would be an engineering problem, mostly.  You need to balance the 
desirability between having a lot of oscillators (the more the merrier), 
and the cost and maintenance problems.  The cost is rather obvious, I would 
say, i.e. how many can you afford.  Then there is maintenance.  You are 
going to have to keep them in tune.  Depending on how stable they end up 
being, you may have to tune them all up just before you use them 
everytime...or, maybe not.  These are questions you will have to answer.

At 08:51 AM 9/26/2003 -0400, Michael Boracci wrote:
>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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