MOTM

There are two practical ways to do this.

1. For VCOs only, one could use the EMu VCO - style soft sync. It's harder
than MOTM soft sync, but softer than hard sync. The audible effect is just
as you described - soft sync 2 VCOs together, sweep one, and hear it grab
and lock into the overtone series of the other.

2. Programmable quantizer as you talked yourself into below. I know Paul has
mentioned this as a possible module at one time. PIC based probably, ROM
tables with different scales and intervals built in. One such table should
certainly be based on the natural harmonic series.

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:44 PM
> To: 'MOTM Forum All'
> Subject: [motm] Module Idea -- Harmonic Bias Source
>
>
>
> Please bear with me on a long ramble (or you can just delete this
> Email now,
> Mr. Phelps---it's always your choice).
>
> I've been thinking about an idea for a module that I'd like to
> throw out to
> the group for merciless comment. This discussion probably wont
> interest 95%
> of you, and wont even make _sense_ to anyone that does not understand the
> relationships of partials (harmonics) and how they mix to create
> a sound in
> additive/'Fourier-fashion'... but if created, I think many people
> would see
> the value in it once they heard it.