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LFO Offset?

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:12 pm
by aziltz
Hi, I'm new to the FV-1 game. Is it possible to generate a 2nd or slave LFO that has a controllable phase offset from a master LFO?

Thanks.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:45 pm
by frank
Each LFO puts out +/-sin and +/- cos so you have 4 phases all 90 degrees apart from each other. If you need it to be an arbitrary phase then it is not possible.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:03 pm
by aziltz
I see, thanks. Could an allpass applied to an LFO to give arbitrary control over the phase?

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:43 pm
by slacker
Haven't fully thought this through but you should be able to do it using the ramp LFOs, you could run them both at the same speed but reset one of them at any point along the other, this will give you what ever phase difference you like.
The ramps can be rectified to give triangles and clipped or filtered to give something approaching a sine.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:55 pm
by aziltz
thanks, I will look into that.

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:55 am
by rocket512
aziltz wrote:I see, thanks. Could an allpass applied to an LFO to give arbitrary control over the phase?
Good old math might be useful:

sin(x+y) = sin(x)*cos(y) + sin(y)*cos(x)

y could be the arbitrary Phase offset

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:36 pm
by frank
Yeah, rocket512 is right, that would probably work.

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:19 pm
by aziltz
I looked that up right before asking my question too! Thanks all.