exponential rising (was Re: definition of Syncing)

[DJMaytag]

At 01:26 AM 11/26/96 +0100, Patrik Erikson wrote:
>>How is this done (electronics explanation please) ?
>
>In a sawtooth VCO, like for example the Elektor Formant the waveform is
>generated by a linearly rising voltage across a capacitor, which at the
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>proper level discharges by a transistor switch. This is activated by a
>Schmitt-trigger (7413).

curious question (possibly stupid, but who knows?): what would it sound like
if you had an exponentially rising voltage across that same cap? interesting
sounding waveform or no?

mitch

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