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Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
Doepfer_a100 group:

Would you like Doepfer to release a Timbral Quantizer Module?

[If you check out the relation between the harmonic spectrum of a 
certain sound (frequency and level of partials) and the intervals or 
chords made with that sound which are most pleasing or consonant 
sounding, you find that for most 'natural' sounds (like an acoustic 
guitar) the 12 tone temperament is great, because in 12-tet the 
partials don't tend to clash, so to speak. (Generally speaking of 
course, because you *can* come up with awful chords if you really 
want to)

But for e.g. metallic sounds, or indeed for lots of *electronic* 
sounds, this is not the case. This is why it is especially interesting to 
experiment with different scales and tunings if you are into metallic 
sounds (gamelan, metallic xylophones etc.) or if you're into 
electronic music!! 

The beauty is that there is now mathematics available (thank you Mr. 
Sethares) to derive a fitting customized scale, that is optimized for 
consonance, from almost any type sound/timbre. This is usually 
done using Fourier analysis. But I don't want to propose a Fourier 
analysis module, because it is possible to derive the necessary 
information in another way, if you know the 'recipe' or 'settings' of a 
sound/timbre. This method could definitely work for additive 
synthesis and fm (maybe for analog fm).

So I would propose a dedicated fm-operator or sine bank or ring 
modulator that can be 'read' (preferably real time) by a timbral 
quantizer so the quantizer can calculate a scale that 'fits' the current 
sound/timbre best. The number of steps in the scale would be 
optional, and probably voltage controllable.]
 

  o Yes! 
  o maybe... 
  o no. 


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Thanks!

Hi,

I always wanted to see a multi VCO type module.  3 simple VCOs in one 
module.  1 main cv input for all and offset for tuning the other two.  
Single FM input and single waveform selector to keep cost down.

My idea behind this is that I frequently need to quickly set up a voice and 
need just this type of configuration.  This would pair well with the A-109.

thanks,
Tim

I like the idea of a cheap VCO bank, but you would need tuning knobs for all
three osc's. A nice CV input to have in such a module would be voltage
controlled detuning of osc's 2 and 3 in opposite directions (e.g. one volt
on this input should tune one osc. down one octave, another osc. up by the
same amount and leave one osc. unaffected). This input should probably have
a knob associated with it to enable more subtle detunings controlled by an
LFO or EG.

On 5/15/06, Tim J <bob_aloha@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I always wanted to see a multi VCO type module.  3 simple VCOs in one
> module.  1 main cv input for all and offset for tuning the other two.
> Single FM input and single waveform selector to keep cost down.
>
> My idea behind this is that I frequently need to quickly set up a voice
> and
> need just this type of configuration.  This would pair well with the
> A-109.
>
> thanks,
> Tim
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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what about this module? should i create a poll about
this?
Bakis.



--- Tim J <bob_aloha@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I always wanted to see a multi VCO type module.  3
> simple VCOs in one 
> module.  1 main cv input for all and offset for
> tuning the other two.  
> Single FM input and single waveform selector to keep
> cost down.
> 
> My idea behind this is that I frequently need to
> quickly set up a voice and 
> need just this type of configuration.  This would
> pair well with the A-109.
> 
> thanks,
> Tim
> 
> 
> 


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