Re: interview with Dave Smith -- OT about oscillators

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robert lazarski wrote:

LOL, he has a lot of the same reasons I prefer to do music with
hardware than software. (I still use linux for music things of course,
but not soft synths or DAW's - ymmv). Tempest and his Roger Linn
partnership looks good, I'd consider it if I didn't already have a
jomox 999. Not my style of analogue via DCO's instead of VCO's, but
he's got the cheapest analogue poly on the market out of only like 3
total, and that certainly has a following. Worth the read, thanks.


I don't want to create a DCO vs VCO flamewar here -- after all, that's what the KVR and VintageSynth forums are for :-) -- but I don't see what the problem with DCOs is. Smith himself says they got a bad rap when they first came out, but these days are worlds apart with very high frequency control.

I find it easier to get lush, drifty sounds out of my Mopho than my Little Phatty, whose VCOs are too tightly controlled and too stable with no drift (but not to the point that it doesn't go out of tune when the temperature drops!). You can't detune them too far before you start getting very prominent, obnoxious beating.

On the Mopho the beating from detuning is much less pronounced so you can detune more, then there's the oscillator slop parameter, which I wish would go higher.

In a way I'm glad they've brought out a drum machine as it means I'm not interested and so don't have to resist temptation! I'm trying to ignore the fact that you can hook a keyboard up to it and use it as a six-voice synth, but I'm broke so couldn't afford one anyway.

Q

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