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--- sounds:syntakt [2024-02-13 23:37] – include firmware update instructions asdf
+++ sounds:syntakt [2024-04-12 04:43] (current) – describe how to calculate LFO periods asdf
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 A 12-voice drum synthesizer.
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+====== Tips ======
-Convert the table from bars to steps?
+Elektron's LFO timings are at once opaque and yet strangely intuitive. LFO rates are specified in terms of two parameters: a speed and a multiplier. These quantities are related by the following formula((Adapted from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Elektron/comments/13j7rg2/i_finally_solved_and_understand_the_lfos/|this Reddit post]], which includes an in-depth explanation. The short version is that an LFO's period is split into 128 discrete intervals, and the speed parameter determines the number of intervals per bar. We are not yet sure whether sequence scaling affects these calculations.)): $$\frac{128}{T_{steps}/16}=speed\cdot mult$$
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+For example, to create an LFO with a period of 8 steps, set $T_{steps}=8$ to yield $speed\cdot mult=256$. We arbitrarily choose $mult=16$, so $speed=16$. This works just as well for odd periods; taking $T_{steps}=5$, we have $speed\cdot mult=409.6$. With $mult=8$, $speed=51.2$. Negative speed values seem to simply invert the waveform.
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-<caption>LFO period in 64-step bars derived from the speed and mult parameters</caption>
+<caption>LFO period in 16-step bars derived from the speed and multiplier parameters</caption>
 ^ ^ Mult ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 4 ^ 8 ^ 16 ^ 32 ^ 64 ^ 128 ^ 256 ^ 512 ^ 1k ^ 2k ^
 ^ SPD | 1 | 128 | 64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1/2 | 1/4 | 1/8 | 1/16 |