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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Re: Doepfer "sine" waves?

2006-09-18 by Michael Wagner

On 9/18/06, selfoscillate <synaptic_music@yahoo.com> wrote:
> i think it is quite normal on vco's that the sine is not pure.
> from a musical point of view this must not be a disadvantage,
> but if you are doing fm it certainly is.

Is it really that much of an advantage? I've never had the possibility
to do linear FM on an analog "hi-end"-VCO (by which I mean a VCO with
an as-pure-as-possible sine wave...), so I cannot tell how the
difference actually sounds, but from my understanding, by modulating
one VCO with the sinewave of another, you actually modulate the
frequency of the core-waveform of the VCO (triangle or saw), which is
then sent through the converter. So you don't get "pure FM" anyway...

-Michael

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