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Sep 23, 2026

Your LFO runs at the buffer size: auditing the control rate of my own synth

I spent a year fixing my synth's oscillator and never measured anything that modulates it. Five findings and their fixes: a 20 Hz LFO that came out at 1.5 Hz on a 2048-sample buffer, a portamento quantised to 279 cents per step, two warp modes that were the same function, unison that was a +9 dB gain knob, and 705,600 tangents a second spent applying a modulation of zero.

Sep 23, 202616 min read0 reactions0 comments