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SAWTOOTH ANIMATOR NOTES

SAW IN Of course this does not have
to be a Sawtooth wave input, triangle
and sine work too, (try human voice
through a Sawtooth, or your guitar!)
The nature of a Square wave though is
different as there are no slopes, only near
 instant vertical transients, so Square
Waves are literally Invisible to the
Animator circuit and it cannot fatten them.

SAW OUT Look on your scope and see
 that the output is a jumble of multiple
(7) Saw Waveforms which all vie for
supremacy in ~Amplitude~ based on the
position of the FAT Knob.

PULSE OUT Look on your scope and
 see that the output is a jumble of multiple
 (7) Pulse Waveforms which all vie for
supremacy in ~Phase~ based on the
position of the FAT Knob.
(Unlike the Saw Out, the Pulse Out
wave/phase jumble is of fixed amplitude).

FAT Knob It only takes a little turn of the
 knob up from zero to give a very natural
and realistic fattening effect, however if
you turn the knob up all the way - then
you get the attack swarm of angry bees
type effect, (which to my knowledge has
never been used on tv or in the movies before...
deathray or dilithium engine effects anybody?)

VC FAT Knob This is simply an attenuator
 of the incoming control voltage, (envelopes
 are fun inputs!)

LFO Outs 1-6 There is an internal frequency
-to-voltage converter that looks at the the
incoming frequency of the Saw Input Jack
signal, and then supplies an appropriate speed
 voltage to all six of the LFOs. This can best be
explored by disconnecting the Sawtooth or Pulse
 Outputs of the module, and listening to another
 (second) VCO module instead.

That's right, don't even listen to the Sawtooth
Animator at all in this example, instead
listen to ~the effect that the Animator's LFOs
have~ upon that VCO instead!   (do this by
plugging LFO #1 Output into the 1volt/octave
Input jack on your VCO)  Of course for the
Animator to Animate anything, it must have an
 input, so use that first VCO as an input to the
 Sawtooth Animator Module, and then take the
 animated LFO Output and modulate your
second VCO with it while listening to it.

Notice how the FAT knob controls the whole
 group of LFO outs!  The LFOs speed up or slow
 down based on the frequency of that first
incoming VCO, so play with the input VCO
frequency to hear the LFOs react. As you climb
 higher in LFO jack output numbers, the
Frequency of each LFO gets higher, for example,
 #6 is a much faster LFO than the #1 LFO is, etc.

Now take the LFO outputs (or the Saw or Pulse
 outs themselves) and now feed them BACK as
control voltage inputs to modulate the VCO that
 the Animator Module is listening to in the first
place!
Try Nested Feedback loops, and now try varying
 the amount of the return signal using a dc coupled
 VCA or Low Pass Gate to vc control the amount
of the feedback!


I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of it!!


Cynthia

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