[sdiy] Imperfect VCO

Ian Fritz ijfritz at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 31 20:14:47 CEST 2003


At 11:40 AM 7/31/2003, René Schmitz wrote:

>>Right.  As an aside, I would mention that the main reason for developing 
>>oscillators with minimal glitching and ringing is not because of their 
>>sonic qualities, but rather to obtain more accurate tracking.
>
>Absolutely!  But then, the "core" might be clean, and the glitching and 
>ringing could be only in the waveshaping circuitry.... Thats to say, what 
>ever you receive at the output jacks, doesn't really tell how accurate it 
>is. Or the other way round, accuracy and sonically interesting properties 
>should not be mutually exclusive.

Agreed.  I was just thinking about the core, not the waveshapers.

   Ian




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