CMT is rooted in our in-depth knowledge of the underlying analog circuitry. We start with the original instruments - which in many cases we're still manufacturing! Hardware measurements are combined with analysis of schematics and tests in computer-based circuit design tools, from the interactions of complex circuits down to individual diode clipping characteristics.

After these exhaustive rounds of research, it's time to create the software model. In the ARP ODYSSEi for example, the source code itself is full of actual component values and voltages, meaning that the software creates and processes signals the same way as the original hardware. You'll hear this attention to detail in each of the three different revisions of the lowpass filter, the subtle soft clipping of the VCA, the accurate shapes of the envelopes, and the unique trajectory of the portamento - all distinguishing features of the original instrument. Minute variations in response also provide the slight unpredictability that's such an integral part of analog's warm, organic sound.

To design our groundbreaking digital oscillators, we dip into a completely separate part of our toolbox. KORG's patented ultra-low-aliasing oscillators, as featured in the flagship KRONOS workstation, generate rich, jitter-free analog tones without the typical digital artifacts, even with oscillator sync - and also stay bright and crisp in the upper octaves, just like a real analog synth. For the first time in the ARP ODYSSEi, this technology is also applied to ring modulation. Sync and ring modulation are especially challenging, since the waveform may reset multiple times within a single sample period.

CMT combines our decades of experience in both the analog and digital domains, to deliver the best of both worlds.