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Still, it's that unpredictability which helps make those old polys sound so alive. You can detune the individual voices, however it's less predictable since which voice gets played is determined on the voice allocation card, and how you play. Each voice card will have callibration controls for tuning the VCO, maybe VCF too. Other polys like the CS80 or whatever have voice cards, and voice allocation boards. I think some actually have a frequency divider for every key, so you could actually retune the entire thing. You also see divide down oscillators in other old polysynths, string synths also.

Bidule microtuning tutorial manual#

Kinda cool tho, like the PS manual has diagrams for different tunings such as just intonation etc. This adjustment would affect every C#, regardless of octave. The front panel controls allow you to adjust the note frequency dividers, so you can for example set C# to be 20 cents sharp or whatever. Basically there is 1 main VCO running at really high frequency which gets run through a series of frequency dividers, one set for different notes, and one set for octaves. I think detune options kinda depend on what bit of kit you're trying to detune.ДЄfaik, the Korg PS synths use divide down oscillators. It works best for me when i start writing the track with the detuned bit and then work from there. i wrote a bunch of tracks that i really love and i couldnt figure out why they were so special until i was doing a repair on my xoxbox and realized i had never bothered to tune it when i built it and had been using it as a midi to cv device for ages. Ive fiddled a bit with the trim pot stuff and with adjusting scaling on a midi to cv interface for mono synths. There's probably loads of other ways, smarter ways im sure. with these two you are sort of adjusting the width of the tuning across the keyboard, so you end up with something that is like regular equal temperament shrunk or enlarged.ДЇor a mono synth you can also individually adjust pitch bend for each note. Other ways you can rough it is to adjust key following amount on an oscillator if you have that option or for a hardware synth you can look around inside and find the pitch scaling trim pot and play around with it. there's a list of hardware synths that support it here.

so there would be a control for each note intended for keeping the synth in tune, but which you could use to adjust each however you like.

Bidule microtuning tutorial full#

some digital synths and samplers and the those big korg ps 3x00 synths, which afaik have full polyphony with a voice for all 48 keys. i think i remember afx described some bits of hardware he used that supported it.

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there is a list here of some software ones. The key for convenience is that the instrument needs to support microtuning. Beyond pads there's neat things to do i think.