unicity wrote:The Bass Station uses DCO's, so the waveforms don't live in a table stored on some EPROM. They are generated by an analog oscillator that has its cycle reset by a digital clock.
I am not so sure about that. Having had to repair mine I cant find a Osc at all in the signal path. It seems that the Waveforms are generated in the Eprom on the board. I could be wrong but having had it in bits there is no DCO. I am sure the waveform is software generated.
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I have a novation bass station. It's apart in front of me. It has an analog filter, but no vcos or dcos in it. The large custom chip seems to be mostly digital with some analog inputs. Slowing down the clock feeding it, results in the pitch dropping proportionally, which would indicate that it is responsible for pitch generation via clocked logic, ie. digital means. Waveform conversion appears to be in this chip too and it does not seem to be affected by heat. No drift when heated. Likely not analog.
Definitely. Even if the large chip somehow has analog vcos in it, it is obviously also the only cpu used for programming and control. It has an 8mhz crystal clock input. So by definition, what's producing the sound is a digital chip, first and foremost. It only has a handful of analog inputs that are used for the various pots to be read into. The only cv observed was for the filter and vca.
+++ Dont be scared honey, thats just the resonance knob +++