Re: [microsound] Theremins with true sine output?

[Bobby Whelan <bobby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   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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