26 Jul
1998
26 Jul
'98
7:49 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Bruce Lane wrote:
A Moog synth, as I understand it, is a huge
collection of oscillators that
can each be individually tuned and configured to set up about any sort of
variation on a sine wave that one could imagine. Frequency, phasing,
flanging... all could be altered at will on every single oscillator.
I'm a software weenie, so caveat emptor: analog synths typically give you
a few sources such as sine wave, square wave, saw tooth, and white noise,
some VCO's to modify amplitude and frequency, ADSR (attack, delay,
sustain, rlease) filters, and other gizmos. They're basically analog
computers to which somebody attached a speaker. Op-Amps, which are used a
lot in music, were originally designed for analog computers (thus the
name, operational amplifiers).
-- Doug