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Re: [microsound] Theremins with true sine output?



unless your equipment happens to have
switches, buttons, gates, Sample-and-hold, threshold triggering, compressors/limiters or pulse waveforms
all of which use digital processes to work, the difference sonically is the time-scale they operate on.
patch-bays and mixers also involve a large amount of 'mapping' ideology to make their interfaces seem
intuitive and user-friendly.


ndkent wrote:

For what it's worth the Doepfer the process doesn't involve "mapping" - there is no map, that's a term better applied to MIDI data for instance, simply put Doepfer makes some Theremin-like antenna modules that output control voltages as you've mentioned. You can use that voltage to control or be scaled to control anything that accepts voltage control. Doepfer makes VCOs with sine waves. I just paused on the word "mapping" because I believe one of the main attractions of un-digitally assisted analog technology is a complete lack of maps and the inherently stepped/quantitized data involved (nothing wrong if you need it but neither sine waves nor theremins are stepped to begin with)



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