Suboctave generator - 4013?

[klosmon]

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>"Steve Ridley" <spr at spridley.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>My main problem with squarewave sub-octaves is that I think they sound
>>horrible.  You'll get an octave below, but you're stuck the squarewave's
>>harmonics too, starting with a fifth above the VCO.
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One might try converting the square waves to pulse waves (I recall, from the
dim mists of antiquity, the PAIA Stringz synth doing this -- they ran the
basic
square waves from the main divider into a 4024, applied several of the
resulting
outputs to a collection of NAND gates, and ended up with an allegedly
violyn-sounding
pulse wave........... then again, that might be too much trouble?)

Also recall an ancient Anderton project (from Polyphony?) that was called a 
"Pulse-width multiplier" -- supposedly allowed basic square waves to be
modified
by external CVs, added together, and further CV-d, resulting in variable
duty pulse waves....

Then, of course, one could put a basic passive filter on the square wave
output;
but I guess that's a little TOO basic for this group.