The oscillator sync control on an ARP Odyssey analogue synthesiser
Synthesizer feature
Oscillator sync is a feature in some synthesizers with two or more VCOs, DCOs, or "virtual" oscillators. As one oscillator finishes a cycle, it resets the period of another oscillator, forcing the latter to have the same base frequency. This can produce a harmonically rich sound, the timbre of which can be altered by varying the synced oscillator's frequency. A synced oscillator that resets other oscillator(s) is called the master; the oscillators which it resets are called slaves. There are two common forms of oscillator sync which appear on synthesizers: Hard Sync and Soft Sync. According to Sound on Sound journalist Gordon Reid, oscillator sync is "one of the least understood facilities on any synthesizer".[1]
^Reid, Gordon (November 2002)."Synth Secrets: Synthesizing Acoustic Pianos On The Roland JX10". Sound on Sound. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
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