[Fpga-synth] Oscillator Sync to gate

[Gwenhwyfaer]

On 16/04/2009, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:
> 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).

On the other hand, for FM the relative phase of carrier and modulator
(except in the simplest of cases) has a complex effect on the timbre;
you'd certainly want to control that somehow. I wonder if the best
solution is to make it a modulatable parameter? On the other hand,
that might just be adding unnecessary complexity, especially if FM
isn't the primary synthesis mode.