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Re: Polyvolver KB vs. A6

2005-03-28 by afro_88

I always thought it had 2 VCO's and 2 DCO's. I have no idea what DSI
has done to keep it all in tune so well, but I am certain the 2
"analogue" oscillators are in fact VCO's. They certainly sound warmer
than my G2's oscillators.

Afro88

--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, Miles Bader <miles@g...> wrote:
> "Don Gothard" <gothard@s...> 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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