[sdiy] best soundign vco design?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

=?iso-8859-1?q?Milo=20Barrowclough?= <delta_316 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>hi everyone
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>i'm trying to find a vco schematic to build. I want to build a 
>vco that has a plastic, artificial sound. a sound that is pure, 
>strong and unashamedly aritifical. like a sonic equivalent of a 
>loveheart sweet. i've been considering the asm-1 design. would 
>this have the full-on pure fatness of analogue? also i would 
>prefer if the design used easy-to-find components. maybe a 
>minimoog vco? or octave cat? 

Well, the ASM-1 _is_ analogue, so I would guess that it has analogue
fatness.  Waveshape is what determines the timbre, the ASM-1 is a 
sawtooth.  I'm not real sure how much different one sawtooth sounds
from another.  For me, I like to have a selection of waveforms, saw,
tri, square, pulse and sine are the most common.  The ASM-1 is highly
rated, has a wide range, accurate tracking and is simple.  From the
saw it is easy to derive square and pulse or pulse width modulated.

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