200e

Have you contacted Buchla about this?  I don't have a 256e yet but I'd 
not expect to hear any stepping/quantization happening at all.

On 25 Apr 2006, at 21:49, wiardmodular wrote:

>  I just got my 256e yesterday.  After spending some time with it it
>  is clear that it IS stepped.  
>
>  The knobs being stepped is ok with me.  Digital pots I'd expect to
>  have stepping.   Unfortunately the processing it does on a cv also
>  exhibits stepping. 
>
>  I tried patching a serge LFO (dual universal slope generator as lfo)
>  into the 256e with the in side set to 0 volts and the out to 2
>  volts.   I then took the output and ran it to a serge precision
>  vco.  It audibly showed stepping as the lfo ran from 0 to 10 volts
>  getting squashed to 0 to 2 volts by the 256e.  When I set the out
>  stage to 8 volts the stepping became less noticeable but was still
>  audible. 
>
>  I posted an mp3 file of this patch to the group.  About half way
>  through you can hear me shift the output on the 256e from 2 volt out
>  to 8 volt out with the result of reduced size of the stepping.  
>
>  Maybe a future firmware update will provide higher resolution?
>
>  Chris


		
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