Frequency ratios. - continued – Tiptop Z3000 Smzrt VCO User Manual
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Audiosynthesisreliesheavilyonfrequencyratios,so
usingthemappropriatelycanbeveryhelpfulnomatter
whattheapplication:modulatethepulsewidthof
anotherVCO,forfrequencymodulation,modulatethe
cutoffofafilteroranyotherparametersinagiven
system’smodules.TheZ3000’sFrequencyModemakes
itpossibletoquicklyexperimentwiththemathematical
sideofsounddesignandaudioprocessing.
TheMusicNoteModeallowsforthesametechniques
butfromadifferentperspective.Itallowsfrequency
ratiostobeseteasilybutbasedontheharmonic
relationshipsofmusicalnotesasdefinedbythe
chromaticscale.Thisfeatureallowsthosewith
extensivetraininginmusictheorytoexperimentwith
sounddesignandcompositiononamodular
synthesizerbysettingthoseratios.Tryexperimenting
withdifferentsoundsbysettingmultipleZ3000sto
differentmusicalnotesandhavethemmodulateone
another.
Frequency Ratios. - Continued