I concur. a 4-voice DCO would be a must buy for me as well. same goes
for the 'luxury' frequency shifter someone mentioned earlier.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "levka0" <levka@d...> wrote:
>
> Hi Florian
> Thanks for your response.
> Your suggestions regarding a DCO or DSP based solution sound rather
> interesting ....
> Well, I do not have a Nord modular myself, but besides the A-station,
> I have also used an analog Vermona Perfourmer 4-voice for this, but
> this has no PWM unfortunately. I do have four A-110's, an A-135 and
> the MCV24 so in principle I could go polyphonic with this as well,
> but somehow, I never came to do it.
> I was came very close to an Rs370, but eventually I postponed it.
> A "digital" poly VCO from Doepfer in one form or another, as Shawn
> also suggested, would be really a must-buy for me.
>
> best regards
> Joost
>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander
> <Florian.Anwander@c...> wrote:
> > Hi Joost
> >
> > > Currently, I am using a Novation A-station as a kind of "poly DCO
> > > bank" to feed my A-100, but I would really appreciate to have
> > > something from Doepfer,
> > I have two A-110 and two A-111, so I tested once a four voice setup
> with
> > four different lowpass-filters, four linear VCAs and four ADSR. I
> found
> > that I have to adjust the A-110 very exactly, to have a satisfying
> > musical result.
> > Then I replaced the four Doepfer VCOs by four Oscillators from my
> Nord
> > Modular (sent to the four outputs). This was really fine. I had the
> > indiviual sound of the different voices, but the good tuning of the
> > digital oscillators.
> >
> > So I assume a digital controlled fourvoice oscillator would be the
> best
> > solution. Whether a DCO like in JX8P (programmable counter resets
> the
> > oscillating capacitor circuit), or a complete DSP solution is the
> better
> > way is a question of the costs for the development effort.
> >
> > Florian