[A6] sub OSC revisited

Tom Moravansky tom at synthservices.com
Mon Mar 17 04:37:12 PST 2003


Hello, has anyone ever looked into a possible non-ASIC fix
for the sub oscillator problem?

Last I heard, the original Alesis folks thought the only way
to address it was with an ASIC change.

If you don't know what I'm talking about do this:

create a simple single oscillator sawtooth patch, wide open VCF,
simple gate envelope.  Listen to it and as you sustain the note,
turn up the sub OSC 1 volume control.

Do the same thing on any other synth with a sub oscillator (SH-101, etc)
and notice the difference.

(BTW - this 'feature' can be exploited for other things, especially if
you use the mod routings and assign a LFO to he sub OSC and main OSC
volumes with sign-reversed amounts of modulation - ie +50 and -50).


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