Wiard "Uber" East Coast Oscillator now shipping in Euro-style
2010-05-28 by Grant
While I swore I would never do a sawtooth core oscillator because there were too many already, several small developments have lead to my "uber" core oscillator begin shipping this week from Malekko. 1. I realized a common public domain sawtooth phase shifter could be coupled to Terry Michaels sawtooth core, perfectly. 2. Terry showed me a degenerarive emitter sine shaper he has been tinkering with for the last 9 years. So we end up with all the usual suspects for a "East Coast" sawtooth VCO coupled with some "minty fresh" new features. With the exception of "Wavemakers" who has always beats me to everything, we have: 1. A set of three outputs all phase variable from their "I"(inphase) origiana lset. Q would be wrong here since Q(quadrature) is only 90 degrees while this is 0 - 360 degrees. Call them "V". These can be summed with various inversions and phase relationship to produce an unusually large number of source waveforms (fits both East and West Coast models) (don't forget every other output on the "Boogie" is phase inverted, with Freq set to max the "Boogie" is just a set of 2 followers and 2 inverters) 2. Hard Sych: Old Skool, Use of SQR2 into synch of second oscillator produces "phase modulated synch" invented by Ron Rivera and heard by only those blessed with access to the tiny number of Ron Rivera modified 2600s and Minimoogs. Also try "Anti-Oscillator" Mayhem input to Synch. Tasty! 3. The best sine converter I have ever seen. Typical THD readings for various synths if they bothered to have a sine wave: ARP 2600 10% THD Buchla 258 3% THD Wiard 341 <1.0% THD Malekko "Oscillator" <0.2% THD Some people have the impression that the Euro-Format is some how "inferior" to the 300 and 1200 series. Consider them each an orchestral section, different emphasis, different aesthetic results, same "shark-like" obsession with making you laugh with delight for the effort of wafting a feather. Also all Wiard products interconnect seamlessly with each other. A mixed, 300, 1200, Euro system is not even noticeable by the composer, except for the ever increasing size of the headband you will need for your hat.