yeatsvisitslincoln wrote:A PLL by design is supposed to track really well, no? In typical applications they're meant to be used as references, so my understanding was that part of the point of a PLL in audio was to have "loose" tracking so that you get that phasing effect.
For sure. Don't get me wrong, part of the magic of the pll circuit in mine is the unpredictability of the tracking, how closely (or not) it's tracking/locking, and then how the mult/div/sqr are mixed. Some of the tracking response is incredible- random arpeggios, sweeps that hesitate then go grab the octave, squelch, then collapse in an 8-bit crumble. It's dynamic and unpredictable, and an amazing noise/sound generating machine. Some of the tracking sounds like someone wearing earplugs and rifle range hearing protection trying to sing in tune to warped vinyl on a 2 second delay, then playing a penny whistle: also dynamic, also unpredictable, but not quite amazing sounding. (Depends what you like, to each their own, etc). And the amount of knob twisting to go from one to the other is almost nothing. A strong breeze. And that doesn't even begin to take into account actually playing the guitar, where you are on the neck, etc.
Seems from the vids like the mtl.asm version maybe has more of the former and less of the latter, though from Scott's note, probably both (and more). All good things- hours of fun.
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:49 pm
