Im doing a course assignment about synthesizers. Can you tell me what a VCA is, and how is it used (a) in a basic monosynth, (b) in a tremolo pedal, and (c) in a vocoder?
At SOS, we’re forever getting emails such as this from students asking us, in effect, to answer their most recent essay question for them. We simply don’t have the time to do this and, in any case, it’s pretty pointless to ask someone else to do your homework for you! However, the information required for course essay questions is usually not at all difficult to find. By mastering a few basic research techniques, you can almost always find what you need, no matter what the question is. So here are some methods that you can use to gather material if you’re facing an essay question on a new topic. If you have access to the Internet, as it appears almost all students now do, then SOS’s web site will almost certainly provide a great starting-point, with hundreds of past articles available free of charge within a searchable database. To take the example of the question above, entering the acronym ‘VCA’ into the SOS search engine ( www.soundonsound.com/search/ ) brings up dozens of entries,
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