COMPA and RAMP LFO?

[Digital Larry]

In the context of the SIN/COS LFOs, COMPA apparently has the effect of running the LFO the "other way" through the buffer. You also have to mind which of the CHO RDA pair you use COMPC with because now it's going the other way. Of course you would not notice unless you were running one the "right" way at the same time. This is equivalent to running the LFO backwards, or even with a 180 degree phase shift due to the symmetry of SIN and COS.

Now with RAMP, you already get 180 degrees from the RMP2 parameter for the purposes of cross fading to make those nasty glitches go away. But it is not going backwards. I am curious to know if COMPA makes the RAMP LFO go "backwards", because if so, it would seem that you could get octave up and down out of one RAMP LFO leaving the other one to do something else.

Thanks for any clarification.

DL

[frank]

The COMPA on the ramp generator is there really because the SIN LFO and ramp generator share hardware at the address calculation stage so it didn't add any additional gates to allow the ramp to also COMPA.