MOTM

Dave is cheating because he has used EMu modulars before!

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bradley <daveb@...>
To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: [motm] Re: MOTM-300 reveiled WHHHHOOOOO...


>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
>Gur said:
>
>> 1)sync i/o is that meen i  can allso output a sync signal frome
>> this jack ?
>
>Typically, when using strong sync this jack would be an input, and would be
>connected to another oscillator's waveform output jacks.
>
>But when using weak sync, you would set 2 or more oscillators to weak, and
>connect them all together using this jack (and mults if necessary), so it
>then becomes an input/output jack.
>
>For those not familiar with the difference in behavior between hard and
weak
>sync, here is an explanation:
>
>Hard sync is the sound you heard a lot in the 70's and 80's, it gives a
>distinctive growly sound when you sweep the pitch of an oscillator that has
>been hard synced. Almost became a cliche, like the swept resonant filter
>sound. What happens is that when the waveform of the "syncing" oscillator
>resets, it forces the waveform on the "synced" oscillator to reset also.
>Good for creating new harmonics in the waveform.
>
>Soft sync is seldom seen except in modular systems. It causes oscillators
to
>lock into tune and phase as their pitches approach a mathematical ratio.
You
>can get perfect suboctaves with no beats, etc. If you sweep the pitch of an
>oscillator that is soft synced, it tries to jump to the nearest pitch - not
>quite quantizing, but a cool effect.
>
>Dave Bradley
>Principal Software Engineer
>Engineering Animation, Inc.
>daveb@...
>
>
>
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