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Re: Polyvolver KB vs. A6

2005-03-28 by Miles Bader

"Don Gothard" <gothard@...> writes:
> When pondering this question a thought came across my mind, I have a
> PolyEvolver and I had an A6 for a short while (about a month) It seems I had
> to "tune" the A6 constantly but have never had to tune my Poly. I was just
> curious what Dave is doing to keep the Poly always in tune. Any Ideas?

From what I've read, the evolver essentially uses DCOs, not VCOs like
the A6.

[I say "essentially" because they apparently have higher tuning
precision than olde-style DCOs, which the Evolver uses to implement
stuff like the "osc slop"]

-Miles
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