Studio Electronics C.O.D.E. - Manual (Page 3)

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Introduction
Welcome to the Studio Electronics Omega series! The world’s first completely programmable
discrete analog synthesizer.
What to expect
Phat, Commanding, Dimension Building, TRUE ANALOG SOUND, in spine tingling stereo.
For entire songs worth of processing, use each voice’s auto triggering external input; and each
voice capable of having up to four selectable filters, that’s a lot of processing. Just the
beginning. Heaps of modulation, a user loving operating system, arpeggiating, and multi-
timbrality. Enjoy.
About Tuning
For the Omega series, we developed a very accurate, but not perfect, software routine of
computer corrected oscillator tuning. It looks at each note and corrects it to a pre-defined value.
The goal was to keep all 16 oscillators in near perfect tune over the wide range of the keyboard
but not so perfect as to eliminate the element of randomness, which is the nature, and beauty of
analog synthesis. There is to be expected some tempering at the very low and high pitch
ranges. Tune as needed.
The tuning of the filters is done in hardware and is not part of the accu-tune routine. You may
hear with each voice a very slight difference in timbre or tone; this is not wrong, or poor design.
On the contrary, we have chosen to be faithful and follow the chosen path blazed by our history
shaping predecessors, manufacturers of the classic mono/polyphonic analog synthesizers of the
past. It is precisely this slight variance from voice to voice that gives discrete and Curtis chip
based analog synthesizers their vibrancy and soul pleasing warm sound.