I tried this with my Slim Phatty. If i switch the oscillator to 16' at the octave switch, transpose two octaves down (up/down switch on the Phatty) and then play C1 with my controller i basically am exactly 5 octaves below the "Middle C". Until that the Phatty seems to sound OK but the frequency is already quite low.Dogboy73 wrote:Same thing on my Neptune 2 - if you go low enough you don't really hear pitch anymore. You start to loose that definition & you feel it more than hear it. So I'm wondering how 5 octaves below middle C actually sounds! Will those lower octaves just be a deep, wobbly, room shaking mess? Or how will 5 octaves below sound with the oscillators both turned down & the filter at self oscillation? Actually I should try this with the Neptune 2 to give me some idea.Mr Arkadin wrote:The Taurus 3 and Minitaur go quite low (the lowest notes frankly are unusable as you can't tell the pitch anymore it's so low).
I had a look at the specs of the Neptune 2. Really nice. In OSC3 the octave selector goes down to 64'. In the Phatty this goes until 16' and you reach 64' when switching the octave down two times (with octave up/down switches). If you set the Neptune 2 to 64' and play the note C1 on your controller you should be 5 octaves below the "Middle C".
The Phatty seems to have a bigger range in higher frequencies, the highest ones i reached really did hurt my ears...
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