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> > is it possible to achive linear detuning with at least a pair of ZOs?
> > I.e. the set beating between the two ZOs stays at the same rate while
> > playing up and down the keyboard.

> The Zeroscillator is controlled both linearly and exponentially.
> Because you use exponential control to play up and down the keyboard,
> ratios between frequencies remain constant and not offsets.  This
> results in the transposition of beat frequencies between oscillators
> in the way you are familiar.

Can't you run the keyboard pitch CV into the expo inputs (for normal pitch
tracking) and a detune/offset CV into one osc's linear FM input (for
beating)? Oh, wait... does a linear FM CV produce different frequency
offsets at different oscillator frequencies? Okay, it's example time:

Say the osc is running at 1000Hz and we feed a certain CV (level = X) into
the linear FM input to yield an output frequency of 1004Hz. If the osc's
base frequency is 2000Hz, will that same linear FM CV (level = X) produce
2004Hx? Or something different, like 2002 (half) or maybe something
unpredictable (2002.735Hz or something)?
--
john