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Old 11th March 2010   #29
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Originally Posted by Don Solaris View Post
Actually 2 sounds simultaneously in the multimode Filter, not 3.

It's either low pass or high pass + bandpass. Because if you engage both the LP + HP, you're turning Filter 1 into a Notch. That's even shown on the front panel of Andromeda, and is better understood by looking at the signal flow diagram. LP and HP in Filter1 are combined together into one output as can be seen below. So it's either: Low pass, or High Pass or Notch. Plus the bandpass or inverted bandpass from the same filter.








Don I respect what you saying and your diagram (by the way I dont see anything in your diagram telling that 3 sounds of filter 1 are not possible)

At least on my Andromeda I can hear from the filter 1 the LP , HP and BP at the same time. I have played with the knobs and three sounds do exist simultaneously . Of course all three filter share exactly the same parameters. So you can say its just 1 filter with 3 diffirent output, or or 3 filter with shared parameters.

The Notch mode , is another thing whatsoever
About the oscilators.

What I meant was that the waveforms are combined instead of change. So you can have from an oscilator 1 , a square, saw,sine and pulse on top of each other playing simultenously but sharing exactly the same parameters.

This cannot be done in a modern digital , a digital wont allow you to turn saw , square, sine and pulse , on and off at them same time. Unless it has preset wavefroms like "saw+pulse+sine" ,"sine+saw" etc. But then its not convinient as turning things on and off with the press of a button. So you can say by streching the definition that its actually 8 oscilators that share paramters in 2 groups.

Event though unlike the multimode you cannot control their individual outputs as you can with the 3 filters in multimode. So yes I am streching the definition abit.

Also i disagree with your math as well. It 4 waveforms with 2 modes , on and off ( I exclude the positive / negative mode of the saw) that is 4^2 or plainly 4*4 = 16 possible waveforms without the pos/neg mode of the saw, from a single oscilator.

Of course that is plain nonsense, as the possibilities are enormous if you take into consideration , sync , fm, and a bunch of hundrend parameters dwelling inside the oscilators.
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