Odp: [sdiy] discrete VCOs

[Tony Clark]

> Hi, from the other side of the globe.
> Can a raw sawtooth sound fat comparing to others? What is so special about it?
> Can someone point me to some WAV samples of it? I found a schematic somewhere,
> but I wouldn't like to bother breadboarding it just of curiousity.

   IMHO, a _clean_ sawtooth sounds "buzzy".  Somehow I doubt that the 
early discrete VCO's had a "clean" anything, and probably distorted the 
waveforms quite a bit, hence "fat"-ness.

   Tony

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