200e

Yes, that's true. The entry has a bias towards keyboard-oriented
performance, as well, it seems and some of the 'work-arounds' are more like
trying to force the system to conform to a different school of thought,
entirely.

On 4/4/08, don hassler <dlh30039@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   The phrase that includes"...pleasing FM tone," is a
> red flag for me.
> I understand what the author is attempting to state,
> but by introducing that degree of subjectivity
> immediately imposes a certain bias.
>
> --- Matt Carpenter <matfhew.carpenfer@gmail.com<matfhew.carpenfer%40gmail.com>
> >
> wrote:
>
> > I don't know how many of you have read this or are
> > aware of its
> > existence but there's an entry for the 200e on
> > Wikipedia.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200e
> > A few shortcomings and work-arounds are mentioned
> > which I'd like some
> > updates or clarifications on, if possible. I just
> > thought it would be
> > worthwhile to get the latest data and to dispel any
> > false notions that
> > may be derived from that page.
> >
> > Here are the two I'm most interested in hearing more
> > about and they
> > concern the 261e:
> >
> > 1) The bad news is that it is not obvious how to get
> > similarly
> > good-sounding results by routing the modulation
> > oscillator output
> > signal into the "fm in" signal input of the 261e (or
> > the 259e for that
> > matter). Instead of a pleasing FM tone, the sound
> > gets really grainy
> > as soon as the knob related to the "fm in" input is
> > moved beyond its
> > zero position. This is very unfortunate, because if
> > this worked as
> > expected, one could build some complex, but
> > controlled, FM operators.
> > I have found one work-around which suggests an error
> > in design and/or
> > implementation: by attenuating the modulation output
> > (which can be
> > accomplished by routing it through a 210e Control
> > and Signal Router
> > attenuating the connection a few clicks below
> > unity), results are more
> > in line with expectations. For now, absent any other
> > information or
> > known work-arounds, the best way to do conventional
> > and controlled FM
> > is to use the internal connections, which means that
> > two-operator FM
> > synthesis is the order of the day.
> >
> > 2) Another source of confusion for me is why, when
> > applying audio-rate
> > frequency modulation to the principal oscillator,
> > the pitch appears to
> > go sharp or flat. I'd expect the pitch to remain
> > stable and only the
> > timbre to change.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
>
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