200e

> > Can anybody tell me what the symmetry and high order controls on 
>the new 261e oscilator do?

well, you know how the "timbre" control works, folding up the sine, 
sounding like a resonant filter as the number of wiggles per cycle 
goes up, but the period stays the same. the symmetry control bunches 
up the wiggles in one half of the period. spectrally it suppresses the 
fundamental a bit and pushes more energy into the even harmonics. to 
me sounds like a nasal zero. 

high order blends in the derivative of a squared-up version of the 
would be output. spikes instead of humps. thin but aggro

in addition/correction to mark's comments about the 259:
order is a crossfade between the folded-sine (bandwith-limited/low 
order) and an wide-band signal (infinite-bandwidth/high order). the 
symmetry control moves the wide-band signal from even harmonics, 
through all harmonics, to odd harmonics. 
to me higher order sounds LESS dense, but that perception probably has 
alot to do with what else is going on with the sound.

and a final comment regarding both the 259 and 261: I've been fooling 
around with patching the outputs together on the 259 as I noticed the 
sine output is out of phase with the final output. patching them 
together cancels the fundamental. I bet it was built that way on 
purpose. the 261e has the same phase relation between the sine and 
final outputs. though, with only one output jack each, I'd need to use 
a mixer to try it, and I haven't yet.

anyone know if the 292 has any phase shift? I geuss it'd be the same 
on every channel anyways..

Yasi Perera