When I sync my oscillators and sweep the frequency knob, I noticed it stepping instead of smoothly sweeping. Is there something wrong with my LP?
I don’t have my LP infront of me to check if it is stepping in an traditional pot-stepping sence or if it is the waveform being clipped in different places producing the stepping. Have you performed a similar technique on another synth without the stepping? Hard sync resets the waveform cycle of the synced OSC everytime the master makes a cycle. As the frequency is swept, the waveform gets cut at different points. Is it very very fine stepping? The LP does save things in 1/4095 increments. And “I think” parameters that are not under the RAC (real analog control) can have stepping at that increment. I don’t think OSC 2 freq has RAC. Where manual states OSC 1 and 2 do have RAC, I always assumed it meant waveform. Still, at 1/4095 that’s pretty fine stepping to be able hear.
From the manual: “In the Stage Edition, RAC provides responsive analog control for the Osc 1 & 2, Filter Cutoff, Filter Resonance, EG Amount, Overload and Filter EG Sustain parameters.”
This may seem a bit naive, but does this mean that the little phatty does not have a 100 percent analog signal path?
The signal path is 100% analog. From the osc through the filters and shaped by a VCA. The things that modify the settings are not in the signal path. The envelopes are analog but they do not need to be to have an analog signal path. The lfo in the LP is digitally generated but is converted to an analog voltage before interacting with the other components.