[Fpga-synth] Oscillator Sync to gate

[Rainer Buchty]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Eric Brombaugh wrote:

> is there any advantage to syncing the osc to the gate such that you 
> get the same initial phase on every strike of the note?

Usually no.

I have that on the SY77 and I just plain hate it; on the SQ80 I can set 
the oscillators to "free-run" (which just means that the oscillators are 
not forced to 0 upon a new voice being assigned).

Force-reset I only find useful together with percussion (or any 
unlooped) wave, and even there some slight variation of the entry point 
might be desireable.

> Advantages of sync would be to get identical waveforms every time you hit 
> that note. Disadvantage would be that you get identical waveforms every time

For most of the time, I'd consider it a disadvantage as it makes the 
overall sound quite sterile.

Rainer