VCO or VCF

[Saul Stokes]

On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Tony Allgood wrote:

> Reading some of the notes in the archive, it seems to me that some people
> think that its the VCF that determines the overall sound of the instrument.
> Do the oscillators actually make a difference? One person said a squarewave
> is a squarewave whatever the VCO design. Surely, this is not true. Slew
> rate and HF performance of the semis will have an effect, won't they? And
> sawtooth outputs, well, some sawtooths can have terrible flyback times. For
> instance, my old Rogue (which I sold for 40 UKP about 5 years ago, what a
> plonker! ), had a sawtooth with a flat top, like it had been clipped at
> 12volts.
> 

I think a good example of a different sounding wave is the tb303 
oscillators.  They put out square and saw and sound totally different 
than others. More electronic for some reason.  Also,


Just build Electronote's Option 3 oscillator. It's like playing a bumble bee!

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