This reminds me of the way people regarded the difference between the
Moog and Emu modular components back in the late 1970s. The
consensus seemed to be that Emu was "too clean" and that Moog had the
edge sonically because of the slight imperfections in the filters and
oscillators. but that was Emu's problem all the way around; they had
by far the most developed sequencer system of the day and everything
was automated. But the sound was kind of inhuman. It was nice to
have those stable Emu oscillators but Moog nevertheless remained the
standard.

David Westling

> So what is the purpose of this Isn't a slightly imperfect sine
> impossible to distinguish aurally And can't you filter out any
> imperfections to near-silence with an LPF
>
> On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:02 AM, laryn91 wrote:
>
> > My ZO starts to distort at lower freqs (looks like a square with
> > rounded corners). So it's a
> > sine for only part of its range.
> >
> > I'm not so much interested about whose *distorted* sine wave sounds
> > best, but who's sine
> > output actually has no audible harmonic distortion (i.e fundamental
> > only).

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