From Olivier Gillet Sent Tue, Jun 5th 2018, 07:34
From Olivier Gillet Sent Tue, Jun 5th 2018, 07:34
> also, how are various eurorack oscillators doing it? I have used a fixed sample rate for everything I have ever designed. On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 5:59 PM Mike Perkowitz <xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > > hello, analog friends! since digital synthesis is now fair game here, I h= ave some questions. it's my understanding that in the early digital era, sa= mple playback tended to be done by using a clock to run through a buffer of= samples, and you'd vary the pitch by varying the clock speed. if you have = multiple voices, you'd presumably have multiple clocks, set for the pitch o= f each note you want to play, and you'd mix your voices in analog. I believ= e this was used for digital delay, synths like the PPG wave, and early samp= lers. right? > > I believe later sample playback tended to use a fixed-rate clock, and pit= ch would be controlled, I'm guessing, via interpolation or removing samples= . with a fixed clock, all your voices could be computed together and mixed = digitally, and you could provide a single digital output. correct? > > so my question is... when did that transition happen? and does anyone kno= w which devices (samplers, especially) used which methods? also, how are va= rious eurorack oscillators doing it? > >