Christian Klippel wrote:
hi,
Am Samstag, 1. April 2006 00:31 schrieb Martin Peach:
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
In my experience, external synths, hardware or software, are completely useless for any sort of polyphonic alternate tuning use, since they don't use Hz.
Older hardware works by Volts per Octave (e.g. Arp, Moog) or Volts per Hertz (e.g. Korg).
ouch .... i would recommend to use such a synth for lfo applications only ... imagine you want a 2 khz sound ... meaning 2 kilovolts ... ;-)
Yeah right...upside down as usual (-; I was trying to say that if you put in 1 Volt you could get (depending on your initial offset) 440Hz and then at 2 volts you get either 880Hz (an octave) on one type of analog synth or 540 Hz (440 + 100 at 100Hz/Volt) on another. That is to say, frequency in an analog synth is determined by offset+(Octave/Volt) or offset + konstant*(Hertz/Volt). Anyway, there is no absolute frequency in an analog synth the way there is in a digital one, and the ratio is usually adjustable too so alternate tunings are much easier to implement.
Martin