VCO designs

[Troy Sheets]

> 
> At 10:49 AM 25/02/98 -0800, Eric at Svetlana  wrote:
> 
> >Please, a note to all new readers of this mailing list:
> >A few of the people on here are concerned mainly
> >with technical extremism. This is a worthy pursuit
> >and helps advance the state of the art.
> >
> >But.....it is NOT necessary to build a synthesizer
> >to such high standards and still be able to derive
> >lots of musical value (and pleasure) from it.

I would agree with this paragraph for every module *except* a vco.  Poor
vco designs cause drift.  If you are really trying to do something
musical with a synth, drifting vco's are a complete nightmare.  

You can get away with all your other modules being a little wack, but
your vco is very critical if you plan to use you synth to do anything musical.

Plus, it is not that much more difficult to do a stable vco... the ASM-1's
vco's, without tempcos... are pretty solid.  If you tune them at the beginning
of a session, you won't have to touch them again for awhile.

.02,

-troy

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