LFO voltage?

Tom Baldwin tomb at richmond.infi.net
Tue May 18 13:49:09 CEST 1999


Another <very> popular technique on guitar is to <prebend>a muted string.
Pick the note and release. This creates a <down bend only> as well.

Tom B.

----- Original Message -----
From: Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. <gcmhobbies at earthlink.net>
To: Jeremy Brookes <jbrookes at bluebear.freeserve.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: LFO voltage?


> Strings instruments are not always modulated upwards.  The "whammy bar" on
> an electric guitar bends pitch downward, not upward.
>
> Geren W Mortensen, Jr.
>
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> ----------
> >From: "Jeremy Brookes" <jbrookes at bluebear.freeserve.co.uk>
> >To: "Synth-Diy" <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
> >Subject: RE: LFO voltage?
> >Date: Mon, May 17, 1999, 7:38 AM
> >
>
> >> BUT... when using square wave I find that I like a
> >> unipolar positive only output on the vco and vcf. This means as you
turn
> >> up the modulation, the pitch always goes up from your pressed note,
> >> trills are more natural this way.
> >
> > This is very true. If you think how pitch modulation is applied to
stringed
> > instruments in the real world, the pitch is only modulated up from its
> > non-modulated pitch. I'd imagine that a rectified sine wave as the
modulator
> > would sound most "familiar" in terms of real-world pitch modulation. So
> > positive uni-polar modulation makes sense here. But then we don't always
> > want sense...
> >
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