Audio rate modulation

Hapax
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I thought I’d make a separate topic for this. Can the LFOs get into audio rate modulation?

Similarly, if I routed an audio rate CV in to a CC output, could it pass audio rate to my destination? I realize many synths don’t accept audio rate modulation over MIDI, but I wanted to ask. TIA.

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LFOs can get into audio rate territory, yes. IIRC the maximum frequency is around 500Hz.

However, wrt sending that as MIDI, you run the risk of saturating the bandwidth of a MIDI DIN connection (roughly 1000 messages per second is theoretically possible, in practice it’s less), and/or saturate the processing capabilities of the synth at the other end.

Quite a lot of gear does not expect more than a few messages every second, for that reason automations in HAPAX have a safeguard called “MAX RATE” to downsample the curve in order not to saturate the receiving device. This is not currently available in the modmatrix or the LFOs.

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Thanks. Much appreciated.