[sdiy] How Many Oscillators?

[Michael Boracci]

Thanks Mr. Patchell,
It does appear to be a balance issue. I was not really considering the
tuning issue. I thought that only the really old units had those drift
problems ? Are there any truly stable designs in the analog world that don't
require exotic parts?

Thanks for the advice.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Patchell [mailto:patchell at cox.net]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:24 AM
To: Michael Boracci; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] How Many Oscillators?


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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