Excuse me Argitoth, but if you're so obsessed with pure sine waves, go digital. Buy Max/MSP or learn SuperCollider.I thought we were using analogue gear because of its colour and impurities? At least I am. And I'll say it again: Buy an A143-9 if you want nice sinewaves. It goes far into the audiorange. Check the attached picture.. An A143-9 hooked up straight to my Focusrite Pro26 firewire interface. greets, Ernst On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Argitoth <argitoth@gmail.com> wrote: > man, I feel jipped now. Every oscillator that doesn't have a clean > sine is simply using cheap parts? that suks. > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:43 PM, laryn91 <caymus91@mac.com<caymus91%40mac.com>> > wrote: > > My Aries modular VCOs have a triangular core that also forms the square > and > > sine output. > > There's a second sync'd core for sawtooth output (so no glitch). It's > their > > differential > > transistor tri-to-sine converter that makes the high quality sine output. > > > > Moog, Arp, Polyfusion, etc. all used this standard circuit to make their > > high quality tri-to- > > sine conversions. Looking at Doepfer schematics, all his oscillators > (except > > the quadrature) > > use that cheap simple diode converter. I'm guessing Dieter chose this for > > cost rather than > > quality reasons. I was expecting the expensive High-End VCO to be better > > quality. > > > > BTW, I was really tempted to get Tip-Top, but that video shows a > distorted > > sine even > > worse than Doepfer! Makes me wonder about the design quality inside... > > > > --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com <Doepfer_a100%40yahoogroups.com>, > Argitoth <argitoth@...> wrote: > >> > >> So far I think from best to wrost, (but I'm not so sure) it's > >> > >> 1. Plan B VCO Sine (good) > >> 2. Tip Top Audio VCO (a little better than Analogue Systems? Never > >> owned one of these) > >> 3. Analogue Systems VCO Sine (bad) > >> 4. Doepfer A-110 (worse) > >> > >> Laryn91, your vintage MODULES or your vintage tabletop/rack/keyboard > >> synths? Don't forget that all my filter modules produce very clean > >> sines. Also, I believe the quality of the sine has to do with its > >> oscillator core. I think to get a clean sine requires a second VCO > >> within a VCO... as in, one module has to house two different > >> oscillator cores. One for square,tri,saw, and another separate one for > >> sine... but I don't know anything about circuit boards, this is just > >> my guess. I think this is easily done in a self-contained synth like > >> your vintage gear because it's one whole system, not a bunch of > >> modules... or something... know what I mean? > >> > > > > > > -- > www.elanhickler.com > > an, > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Re: starting a modular - Z3000 waveform quality?
2008-11-25 by achtung_999
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