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Re: [Doepfer_a100] zeroscillator

2008-05-22 by Monroe Eskew

That sounds like thru-zero amplitude modulation, which is nothing new,
though it is a nice feature to put within one module.  But thru-zero
frequency modulation?  Still confused.
Thanks,
Monroe

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Brandon Daniel <bdu@fdiskc.com> wrote:

>   On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Monroe Eskew <monroe.eskew@gmail.com<monroe.eskew%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > But what exactly is "traveling in the opposite direction?" If you graph
> out
> > voltage vs. time, then there is only one direction to go since, absent a
> > flux capacitor, time marches on in a "forward" direction.
> > Do they just mean that the voltage is inverted when you set the thing
> below
> > zero? One can easily achieve that with other modules...
>
> Imagine this scenario:
>
> Basically, apply 1v to the pitch input, output is a rising sawtooth.
> Ramp the input down to 0v, it reaches 0v at the input right as the
> sawtooth hits 0v travelling upward, so the output is also 0v.
> Ramp input down to -1v, output begins to travel from 0v down towards
> negative max v, and waveform is falling sawtooth.
>
> -Brandon
>
>  
>


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