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RE: Starting a modular-Z3000 waveform quality?

2008-11-29 by David Westling

This reminds me of the way people regarded the difference between the  
Moog and Emu modular components back in the late 1970s.  The  
consensus seemed to be that Emu was "too clean" and that Moog had the  
edge sonically because of the slight imperfections in the filters and  
oscillators.  but that was Emu's problem all the way around; they had  
by far the most developed sequencer system of the day and everything  
was automated.  But the sound was kind of inhuman.  It was nice to  
have those stable Emu oscillators but Moog nevertheless remained the  
standard.

David Westling

> So what is the purpose of this? Isn't a slightly imperfect sine
> impossible to distinguish aurally? And can't you filter out any
> imperfections to near-silence with an LPF?
>
> On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:02 AM, laryn91 wrote:
>
> > My ZO starts to distort at lower freqs (looks like a square with
> > rounded corners). So it's a
> > sine for only part of its range.
> >
> > I'm not so much interested about whose *distorted* sine wave sounds
> > best, but who's sine
> > output actually has no audible harmonic distortion (i.e fundamental
> > only).


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