Well... Im no synth expert (have couple of digital oldies and an analogue one) but many synths use noise generators as input in a certain part of the circuitry. Mainly because white noise generators are really cheap/easy to build with few components (this is true in the digital domain too).<div>
<br></div><div>If they say that it has a range control, they ought to be talking about either volume (envelope) or frequency limitation - the second makes not much sense because it conflicts with the concept of white noise itself (random frequencies all over the spectrum with equal power).</div>
<div><br></div><div>You should try either way (one is try adrs or clip the signal that comes out of the white noise) the other is filtering the range (some older synths use a trick to make sounds using the white noise: they filtered it with a sharp q filter and generate different sounds that would ultimately feed the circuit and change the resulting sound).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Can you post the schematic? I got curious..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:15 AM, nate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:potaxpotax@gmail.com">potaxpotax@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">hello<br>
i'm trying to port an analog synth to pd. one of the parts in the<br>
rather confusing schematics of the synth requires a white noise<br>
generator with a "range" control. Not sure i understand it (or that it<br>
is a crucial bit of the synth for that matter), but if it means the<br>
amplitude range, using [clip~] on a [noise~] would do the trick,<br>
right?<br>
Maybe someone with experience on analog synths can throw some light into this?<br>
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