[PD] Synths! (Please Read)

Martin Peach martinrp at vax2.concordia.ca
Sat Apr 1 00:31:18 CEST 2006


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). If you use a 16-bit DAC you can get a lot of frequencies.
The arp2600 had a keyboard adjustment for the intervals between notes.
Not polyphonic though unless you have a few of them :).
Martin




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