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From: metlay@netcom.com (metlay)
Subject: Re: Super Jupiter/JX10 etc.
Message-ID: <7pznv#=.metlay@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 14:50:30 GMT
Organization: Atomic City
Summary: Hard sync
References: <1992Sep14.185212.6622@morrow.stanford.edu>
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In article <1992Sep14.185212.6622@morrow.stanford.edu> AS.TLK@forsythe.stanford.edu (Timmer) writes:
>metlay@netcom.com (metlay) writes:
>>
>>Any other questions?
>
>Now that you mention it.  I just picked up a used JX-8P.  Being one
>of those digital wanker types, I have to confess I don't know what
>hard-syncing one oscillator to the other does.  If I were to guess,
>the sound is something like ring mod, but what exactly is going on?

When two oscillators are hard-synched to one another, one is forced
to reset to the beginning of its waveform every time the other one 
does. If you then vary the pitch of the controlling waveform a little,
you introduce little "jags" into the waveform you perceive coming from
the other oscillator-- an extra hiccup at the beginning of a sawtooth
wave, for instance, or a triangle wave that doesn't go all the way down
before starting back up again. This is perceived by the ear as a dynamic
addition of high-frequency information-- extra harmonics. It's a very
powerful technique. For an example of how it can be overused to the point
of nausea, check out my first Xpander solo in "Netstrophonie," track 2
of Team Metlay's _Bandwidth_ CD. As you'll-- what? What do you MEAN,
"I haven't released it yet"?! Of all the--

Oh. I haven't, have I? Um. Erm. I'll go away now. Never mind. Sorry. |-P

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